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To: wkcoop
Oden said Markovich might have pushed beyond his First Amendment protections by "substantially impairing" Bush's speech, because Bush stopped talking after Markovich abruptly yelled "bullshit!"

"You cannot intentionally disrupt a public address to the extent that the speaker cannot even speak and then hide behind the First Amendment to avoid accountability for your actions," Oden said. "Civility in public meetings is roughed up from time to time, but it's not completely dead. The speaker has a right to be heard, and the audience has a right to hear him, and those are important First Amendment rights, too."

A "Right to be heard" -- very fuzzy headed judicial thinking that. Where exactly would *that* right stop?

Bad judgement in this case -- Markovitz DID let the Presdient be heard, but he added his commentary. We DO have free speech and he spoke up -- not to drown out the speaker, but in commentary to that speech.

4 posted on 05/30/2002 7:25:06 AM PDT by bvw
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To: bvw
BTW, Ken Oden is a VERY liberal County Attorney here in the Peoples Republic of Travis County
5 posted on 05/30/2002 7:39:50 AM PDT by wkcoop
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To: bvw
"Commentary" and "heckling" are not synonyms. Let the trial go ahead.
7 posted on 05/30/2002 8:25:22 AM PDT by moneyrunner
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To: bvw
Perhaps not very well explained.  Let's put it this way: the student in question was interfering with Bush's right to freedom of speech.
43 posted on 05/31/2002 9:47:06 AM PDT by Frumious Bandersnatch
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