The First Amendment right to free speech was meant to protect the rights of pamphleteers. Today’s “pamphleteers” are bloggers. The sick and very scary thing is that America is one Supreme Court vote away from big government tyranny; from Nazi America.
23. We demand laws to fight against deliberate political lies and their dissemination
by the press. In order to make it possible to create a German press, we demand:
a) all editors and editorial employees of newspapers appearing in the German
language must be German by race;
b) non-German newspapers require express permission from the State for
their publication. They may not be printed in the German language;
c) any financial participation in a German newspaper or influence on such a
paper is to be forbidden by law to non-Germans and the penalty for any
breech of this law will be the closing of the newspaper in question, as well
as the immediate expulsion from the Reich of the non-Germans involved.
Newspapers which violate the public interest are to be banned. We
demand laws against trends in art and literature which have a destructive
effect on our national life, and the suppression of performances that offend
against the above requirements.
Nazi Party Platform 1920
” The sick and very scary thing is that America is one Supreme Court vote away from big government tyranny; from Nazi America.”
Oh I think we passed that point a while back. With every one of the thousands of government agencies having their own SWAT team and this new cloud computing being hosted on NSA servers.
Let us pray all the justices remain in stellar health until we can remove ordrama from the Whitehouse
Nope; we're already there: in Schenck v. United States the Supreme Court justified congress's illegitimate laws (see Wickard) as a political expedient. In that case a socialist, Schenck, was distributing pamphlets which denounced the draft as immoral and encouraged the legitimate repeal of that law.
Instead of the correct decision: that the First Amendment was enacted to explicitly protect dissenting political speech, they reached the conclusion that the Congress gains special powers in wartime —
It is a question of proximity and degree. When a nation is at war, many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight, and that no Court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right.Thereby they make the Constitution of no effect.