RE: Shots fired in Dallas of mohammed cartoons.
May 4, 2015 at 7:33 pm
(This post was last modified: May 4, 2015 at 7:41 pm by IATIA.)
(May 4, 2015 at 4:13 pm)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: It would have been a perfect opportunity for Allah to fling some 'loud voiced thunder-bolts':
That was Zeus, more plagiarism by the religions. They cannot come up with anything original?
(May 4, 2015 at 5:12 pm)Chuck Wrote: So forceful suppression of certain speech may be completely essential for the preservation of freedom of other speech.Then where is the line drawn and who draws the line? I served my country to defend (among other things) the right to free speech. Even if they are dicks. All one has to do is walk away, change the channel, turn the computer off, etc..
(May 4, 2015 at 6:38 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:In 1969, the court established stronger protections for speech in the landmark case Brandenburg v. Ohio which held that "the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action".[31][32] Brandenburg is now the standard applied by the Court to free speech issues related to advocacy of violence.[33]
(my bold)
That is also a problem in how and who defines that line.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
