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To: LibFreeUSA
A little bit more about your post to me.

If you believe that this is justifiable behavior by our government, then you have just given up your right to the first Amendment for a very cheap price.

The First Amendment provides and protects our right to free speech. What it does NOT do is excuse us from the CONSEQUENCES of exercising that right. You know the story about yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater where there is no fire. That's free speech. Being arrested and tried for doing so are the consequences of exercising one's free speech rights.

The fact is that rights are a two-way street. It's kind of like Newton's 3rd law of gravity: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

50 posted on 01/30/2012 2:02:26 PM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - Another name for white collar criminals!!)
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To: DustyMoment

Tweeting “I’m going to destroy America,” is absolutely crying “Fire!” in a crowded theatre - as those two learned to their detriment. If you read the comments following the article, you will see that their fellow citizens agree with US!


55 posted on 01/30/2012 2:10:26 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: DustyMoment

No right is absolute.

Your “Fire” comparison is not anywhere close to being correct or sufficiently adequate to support your approval of government control over a ‘tweet’. I am glad you are not my attorney.


56 posted on 01/30/2012 2:10:52 PM PST by LibFreeUSA (Pick Your Poison)
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