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To: mvpel
"So prior restraint against a fundamental right is okay with you?"

Sure. Is it okay that the government can issue broadcast licenses?

154 posted on 11/09/2007 8:48:14 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
Sure. Is it okay that the government can issue broadcast licenses?

Pathetic. Broadcast licenses are about permission to transmit on specific frequencies, not about censorship or the First Amendment. They are analogous to hunting licenses, which are independent of the Second Amendment. (People living in places that lack the Second Amendment can still hunt, and despite the Second Amendment, there are restrictions about when hunting may occur, and what may be hunted for us.)

313 posted on 11/09/2007 12:31:30 PM PST by coloradan (Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
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To: robertpaulsen
Is it okay that the government can issue broadcast licenses?

Sure, broadcast licenses are like "time, place and manner" restrictions on the first amendment. They can only be used for "deconfliction", not as an excuse to ban some points of view from being expressed. You can't have two stations using the same frequency in the same area. No one's message would get through in that case. Thus the need for deconfliction.

No such justification is available for keeping and bearing. Actually firing, sure, guns are noisy and my right to shoot ends at someone else's ears, among other organs. (Of course that wouldn't be nearly the problem if the government allowed sound suppressors without all the NFA infringements)

528 posted on 11/09/2007 11:46:28 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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