[Libloather]

This led to the recent SCOTUS decision allowing free speech. (Imagine that.)

Leftists insist on banning books? What's next - getting rid of certain neighbors? Let's hope not.

[GeronL]

Not only of banning books but now they want to deny groups and organizations free speech rights. People have the right to assembly and association and the far left want those associations to be denied a voice. Effectively saying their members will have no voice.

Here is a CATO video explaining the case.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeGlzEavpTM

[rlmorel]

On the Mark Levin show, they had one of the plaintiffs in the case describing parts of the case examination by the Supreme Court. In one sequence, they had some FEC bureaucrat on the stand being grilled, and the question came up (and I paraphrase here, because I cannot remember it word for word...):

JUSTICE GINSBERG: (being a "friendly" justice to the SEC hack): "Can you reiterate your stand again for us on whether the content by the plaintiff (in this case, an anti-Hillary DVD whose release was prohibited during the campaign time frame) would have been equally banned if it were a book instead of a DVD? We have a problem with book banning..." (this was said by Ginsberg to allow the FEC official to explain the FEC standing in a good light)

FEC BUREAUCRAT: (honestly) "Yes. If it were a book, yes, the promotion and release would have been prohibited. But really, even though the criminal law is there, trust me, nobody would have ever been prosecuted in that way."

JUSTICE ROBERTS: (Leaning forward, forehead furrowed): "Madam, we do not put our First Amendment rights at the mercy of FEC bureaucrats!"

WOOHOO! I almost went off the road cheering at that one!

There is a reason liberals are so bent out of shape over this ruling: They understand completely that this weakens the position of the media, which had unlimited resources to support liberal candidates, where conservatives had no such advantage, no recourse.

They know what they lost!

[Deagle]

This was an expected and right decision. What is so discouraging is that 4 justices voted against Free Speech. Looks like the Constitution is getting harder to read and interpret these days. That is very discouraging - possibly in need of another revolution to correct the obvious...

[feedback doctor]

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