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To: Starman417

Nothing like relying on a law from 1934 to hammer home the fact that government agencies can stomp freedom in to the dirt.


9 posted on 02/26/2015 4:52:26 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: Organic Panic
Nothing like relying on a law from 1934 to hammer home the fact that government agencies can stomp freedom in to the dirt.

AFAIK, 1919 is when the Supreme Court decided the constitution wasn't binding:

We admit that, in many places and in ordinary times, the defendants, in saying all that was said in the circular, would have been within their constitutional rights. […] It is a question of proximity and degree. When a nation is at war, many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight, and that no Court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right.
— from Schenck v. United States
This, despite the constitution clearly saying:
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

17 posted on 02/26/2015 5:07:34 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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