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Lying is protected speech. Unbelievable.
1 posted on 08/18/2010 4:58:03 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes
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To: Past Your Eyes

I bet almost any half-wit law student can find a precedent that disputes this.....not to mention that lying is simply morally WRONG.


2 posted on 08/18/2010 5:00:04 PM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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so FRAUD is no longer a crime???
3 posted on 08/18/2010 5:00:57 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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Try lying about being a lawyer and see what happens.

Of course, we’ve got a couple of bimbos and bimboys on the supreme court who have lied about being (competent) lawyers.


4 posted on 08/18/2010 5:02:29 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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So, lying about being a US Citizen for purposes of obtaining benefits is not a crime?

Lying that you have a medical degree is not a crime?

Lying that you are single to commit bigamy is not a crime?

Where does this end?


5 posted on 08/18/2010 5:03:19 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter -God's redemption)
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So, does that mean you get to lie about being a policeman or lie about being a judge?


6 posted on 08/18/2010 5:03:31 PM PDT by McGavin999 (I'm sorry, your race card is overdrawn and no further charges can be accepted)
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Hey, in 2008, I won the “Congressional STFU Whitie, and Share Your Wealth” award.... I’ll tell my neighbors now.


7 posted on 08/18/2010 5:03:41 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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"the Constitution prohibits the government from prosecuting someone for merely lying."

Tell that to Clinton. This is done all the time. How do they think they got the old Italian mob figures on tax evasion?

8 posted on 08/18/2010 5:05:05 PM PDT by Dem Guard
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If he accepted so much as a cup of coffee based on the pretense that he was a military hero, he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for fraud.


9 posted on 08/18/2010 5:06:06 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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The only count Blago (former Illinois Dem. governor) was convicted of was lying to the FBI. Does the 9th court overturn this conviction?


10 posted on 08/18/2010 5:06:28 PM PDT by LauraJean (sometimes I win sometimes I donate to the equine benevolent society)
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Well, dressing up in black robes and ponticating legal stuff should be no problem, and flashing FBI badges to shoot fat-ass union pigs is permitted.

Cool.

No law, no problem - whoever has a gun and can shoot the best rules. Rule of anarchy.


11 posted on 08/18/2010 5:06:44 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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1) Court says abortion through an unwritten right of privacy is a right.

2) Court says two buggering poofters or two purveyors of carpet cuisine have the right to marry.

3) Court says our sworn enemies have a First Amendment right to build a victory mosque at Ground Zero.

4) Court says it is illegal to display a Menorah or a Nativity Scene on public property but muslims must be afforded public access to foot washing basins and “special facilities” in which to pop their asses up in the air while praying to satan.

5) Court says obama has the power to seize private industry and take over management.

6) Court says that no one alive today has standing to force obama to show his long form Birth Certificate and that obama is above the law.

7) Court says we must be compelled to buy health insurance under penalty of jail and fine and we must also pay to buy it for those that cannot afford it and also supply it free along with welfare and public education for illegal invading hoards of reconquestas.

8) On and on and on and on and on and on and on.

LLS

12 posted on 08/18/2010 5:12:08 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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Lying is protected speech. Unbelievable.

Its been that way since this country was founded. It is a good ruling. Now lying and financially gaining from it is fraud, but lying to a girl in a bar to impress her is constitutionally protected as it should be.

Our generation wants to outlaw everything. It is just a part of our shameful legacy.
13 posted on 08/18/2010 5:13:37 PM PDT by microgood
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will this be appealed


14 posted on 08/18/2010 5:17:45 PM PDT by Charlespg
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Lying is protected speech. Unbelievable.

Honestly, if you had been sentenced to 6 months in jail for every lie you ever told, when would you expect to be released from prison?

15 posted on 08/18/2010 5:18:57 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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right to speak and write whatever one chooses - including, to some degree, worthless, offensive ...

so that nullifies all "hate speech laws", right

19 posted on 08/18/2010 5:28:25 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (g)
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Hey maybe this guy was on a special mission during Christmas in Cambodia during the Vietnam war? He probably was part of the crew on that famous mission with another hero who received 3 purple hearts?


20 posted on 08/18/2010 5:30:11 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Put Alan West on the fast track, to the White House! Kick a$$ in 2010 and 12)
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Blago wishes that was the case.


21 posted on 08/18/2010 5:32:20 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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9th Circus at it again, I see.


23 posted on 08/18/2010 5:32:45 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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"the Constitution prohibits the government from prosecuting someone for merely lying."

ahhh, that's what they sent Martha to jail for - and just yesterday , the ONLY thing, of all the charges on Blago - that they convicted for was lying.

This needs to be overturned - this creep should not be able to ride on the service and sacrifices of our troops

24 posted on 08/18/2010 5:36:21 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (g)
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Lunatic clown leftists.

How in the world did they get control over our lives?

26 posted on 08/18/2010 5:39:53 PM PDT by skeeter
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