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SUPREMES STRIKE DOWN VIDEO GAME LAW
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Posted on 06/27/2011 7:44:41 AM PDT by Hojczyk

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lawsuit; ruling; scotus; videogames
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To: Scutter

“That’s not what it means at all. It was a ruling against a very specific, flawed law.”

What in the opinion leads you to believe this?

I’m looking at the opinion and the news coverage. I don’t know what you’re looking at.


81 posted on 06/27/2011 9:02:41 AM PDT by Shadowfax
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To: Hojczyk

More bullsh*t law coming out of the concentration camp formerly known as California.


82 posted on 06/27/2011 9:03:50 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Until Obama, has there ever been, in history, a Traitorous Ruler?)
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To: Thane_Banquo
Here’s a crazy idea: How about make parents responsible for their children’s entertainment choices rather than the government.

THAT'S INSANITY!!!!!!!

83 posted on 06/27/2011 9:05:59 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Until Obama, has there ever been, in history, a Traitorous Ruler?)
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To: Lazamataz

More bullsh*t rulings coming from the elite dictators in black robes formerly known as the Supreme Court.

There. Fixed it for you.


84 posted on 06/27/2011 9:07:30 AM PDT by TheBigIf
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To: TheBigIf
No. You're reading this wrong.

You still have EVERY Right to stop your children from watching, playing or reading anything YOU think is 'violent' or you just don't like. It's that the State or YOU cannot stop other people from allowing their children access to that 'violence' or 'stuff' that *may offend* you.

So this reinforces YOUR Rights ('Your' as in We The People).

85 posted on 06/27/2011 9:07:46 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits [A.Einstein])
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To: Lazamataz

Yet you want to limit the rights of parents to having no rights to representation on public decency in their states. They should just keep their kids in a personal bubble being that they have no rights to have any say outside of the home. THAT IS TRULY INSANITY!!!


86 posted on 06/27/2011 9:10:09 AM PDT by TheBigIf
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To: ilovesarah2012
Not sure how this is different.

The short version: The court says violence is different than obscenity. From Scalia's opinion:

"California’s argument would fare better if there were a longstanding tradition in this country of specially restricting children’s access to depictions of violence, but there is none. Certainly the books we give children to read - or read to them when they are younger - contain no shortage of gore.

Grimm’s Fairy Tales, for example, are grim indeed. As her just desserts for trying to poison Snow White, the wicked queen is made to dance in red hot slippers “till she fell dead on the floor, a sad example of envy and jealousy."


87 posted on 06/27/2011 9:11:25 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Condor51

You read it wrong.

You want to remove my right to representation within my community and state and have me confine myself and my children to some sort of personal bubble in order to keep them from the anarchy that you want imposed by the dictatorship of the elite rulers in black robes.

You are promoting dictatorship. There are plenty of dictatorial countries where people have no right to representation. You want that here.


88 posted on 06/27/2011 9:13:46 AM PDT by TheBigIf
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To: Diogenesis

“Treason, Constitutional abdication ... not so much.”

Ain’t that the truth. Den of thieves...


89 posted on 06/27/2011 9:14:19 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: Condor51

You have no idea what you’re talking about. The ruling says that the law is unconstitutional because it’s a violation of the child’s Constitutional rights. That means the child has the RIGHT under the Constitution to purchase these video games.

This isn’t about allowing parents to oversee their kids. It’s exactly the opposite.


90 posted on 06/27/2011 9:15:17 AM PDT by Shadowfax
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To: Condor51

So by your standard we have no right to representation on the ‘age of consent’ then as well. Why should anyone have the right to say when someone else’s children are ready to engage in sexual relations.

Total BS. You are pushing libertarian anarchy that leads to dictatorship.


91 posted on 06/27/2011 9:21:36 AM PDT by TheBigIf
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To: TheBigIf
Yet you want to limit the rights of parents to having no rights to representation on public decency in their states.....You want to remove my right to representation within my community and state and have me confine myself and my children to some sort of personal bubble in order to keep them from the anarchy that you want imposed by the dictatorship of the elite rulers in black robes. You are promoting dictatorship. There are plenty of dictatorial countries where people have no right to representation. You want that here.

True! That's exactly what I want. And I want you confined to a labor camp, where we work you, barely feed you, and you die of malnutrition and overwork. Furthermore, I want your children to be hooked up on Iditarod sled teams, to pull the sleds, so the dogs don't have to work so hard.

92 posted on 06/27/2011 9:25:57 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Until Obama, has there ever been, in history, a Traitorous Ruler?)
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To: All

Yeah, this experiment in self-government is about over. The results are not good.


93 posted on 06/27/2011 9:28:19 AM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

I like Scalia, but to compare time-worn Grimms to today’s violent video games is like apples and oranges.


94 posted on 06/27/2011 9:29:12 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: TheBigIf

How is having community standards promoting dictatorship?


95 posted on 06/27/2011 9:30:29 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Shadowfax

If your daughter has the right to kill her baby, I guess she would have the right to buy violent video games. I see this as another step towards removing children from the control of parents.


96 posted on 06/27/2011 9:32:23 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Thane_Banquo

That sounds good, but in real life, government has a lot of rights.


97 posted on 06/27/2011 9:33:48 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: TheBigIf
We are then losing all of our rights to have any say in any decency standards for our communities at all

you lost them a long time ago.

The Supreme Court has consistently (wrongly, in my view)interpreted "rights retained by the people" to mean, individuals only. Communities don't count.

98 posted on 06/27/2011 9:34:48 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The Constitution is overthrown. The Revolution is betrayed.)
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To: Thane_Banquo

They would have the right to vote for whomever they wanted to, wouldn’t they? As for the representative imposing sharia law, they could try, but we still have a Constitution.


99 posted on 06/27/2011 9:37:03 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Shadowfax

Both Scalia and Alito concurred with judgement. Essentially the judgement was that video games fall into the same category as books and other media that are protected by the 1st amendment.

Absolutely nothing is preventing you from telling your kids that they can’t have whatever video games you deem inappropriate. There is nothing in this ruling that prevents that. THe ruling is specifically against the STATE’s ability to restrict “speech”.


100 posted on 06/27/2011 9:37:52 AM PDT by Scutter
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