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To: Eleutheria5
It's not about free speech, it's about the mourners' right to peaceably assemble.

SCOTUS is allowing the free inciteful speech of one group to trump the peaceable assembly of another group of funeral goers.

-PJ

13 posted on 03/02/2011 3:54:09 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (In a democracy, you negotiate from the floor of the legislature, not from hideouts and bullhorns.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

If the Westboro bunch went inside the funeral home they would not be protected.


28 posted on 03/02/2011 5:49:35 PM PST by dforest
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To: Political Junkie Too

>>mourners’ right to peaceably assemble<<

You have a citation for this? There’s no such right, especially on public property.


33 posted on 03/03/2011 2:08:11 PM PST by 1L
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