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To: Do not dub me shapka broham
Don't Question the Left! The great irony is that the people who resort to such "arguments" (they're really just insults) are the ones questioning free-speech rights, because they are suggesting the criticism was inappropriate and, in some vague and stupid way, unconstitutional. Right?

Cindy Sheehan's freedom of speech ends when she accuses the President of criminal conduct and killing her son. Such comments are not only bordering on libelous, but ARE libelous and slanderous.

In Milkovich V, Lorain Journal (1990) the Supreme Court in an opinion written by Justice Rehnquist ruled, “that the First Amendment does not automatically shield expressions of opinion from being found libelous” LINK

21 posted on 08/16/2005 3:11:36 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: Victoria Delsoul
Interesting.

Thanks for the link!

:)

22 posted on 08/16/2005 4:15:05 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("I'm okay with being unimpressive. It helps me sleep better.")
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