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To: P-Marlowe

“This decision is consistent with the original intent of the Constitution and the prohibition against the government infringing upon speech.”

I don’t think so. Seems to me that the original intent was to protect political and religious speech.


68 posted on 07/16/2010 4:06:27 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc; xzins; blue-duncan; wmfights; Forest Keeper
I don’t think so. Seems to me that the original intent was to protect political and religious speech.

I don't like the idea of the government deciding what speech it is going to consider to be criminal. If you are going to criminalize speech, then it must be narrowly tailored to criminalize only speech that poses an identifiable danger to the public safety or that actually causes monetary or physical damage to the public or another citizen.

If they can make it criminal to brag about your phony military career, then they can make it criminal to say just about anything that might offend some other person.

As much as I detest these people who pretend to be heroes but are not, I do not want the government making such speech criminal. Political correctness is a two way street. This is just political correctness that conservatives might like. But if you think about it, you should hate this as much as laws which make it a crime to ridicule homosexuals. Eventually you can't even preach a sermon on sin without going to jail.

The government has no business getting into the business of prosecuting braggarts.

74 posted on 07/16/2010 5:04:01 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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