(June 30, 2017 at 11:32 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(June 30, 2017 at 11:10 pm)wallym Wrote: We've been brainwashed pretty solid on UNLIMITED FREE SPEECH IS SUPER IMPORTANT.
Anyone with an education -- and there are many of us -- knows that all rights have limits, including the right to free speech.
This was also talked about in the video .
Megan Phelps says the supreme court ruled in favour of the protests by the church were protected by the first amendment.
The limit to freedom of speech that was being talked about in that case was speech that causes intense emotional distress.
Because the protests were seen to be a significant distance away from the funerals and no one was being forced to hear or see the protest from where the funeral was held it was decided the speech was protected.
Wikipedia has an article on it and a comparable case where Hustler made an article about the evangelist preacher Jerry Falwell having sex with his own mother in an outhouse. This was also deemed acceptable because it was a parody of a public figure.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
