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To: StupidQuestions
You have read the 1st Amendment? You want to shut down a newspaper because you don't like what was printed? LOL. That's about as un-American as you can get, isn't it?

How about cartoons of masked men in death squads blowing up left wing newspapers? Is that OK?

Go yell fire in a crowded theater and then explain to the judge at your arraignment you were exercising your first amendment rights. Then get back to me about the limitations on that right.

404 posted on 07/20/2003 6:47:00 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
How about cartoons of masked men in death squads blowing up left wing newspapers? Is that OK?

That's probably legal, as well.
407 posted on 07/20/2003 6:48:24 PM PDT by Quick1
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
Understood. Go by a machine gun and when arrested tell the Judge you have a 2nd Amendment right to it. I think you do but the Judge won't because the 2nd Amendment isn't convenient in our society. Neither is the 1st.

We have made exceptions to the Bill of Rights to make things easier for the Government. The Judge in the Lacy Peterson case imposed a 'gag' order to make his job easier. His order clearly violates the 1st Amendment but his ruling will stand because the Courts have the power to trample on any Law to make their jobs easier.

They have the power but that doesn't make them right when they exercise the power.
430 posted on 07/20/2003 6:58:54 PM PDT by StupidQuestions
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