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Why the Redskins Trademark Ruling Should Terrify You
The Federalist ^
| June 19, 2014
| Robert Tracinski
Posted on 06/19/2014 8:16:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
In Europe you can be arrested for racially offending someone. This is what they are trying to do here. Coming soon...
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:22:56 PM PDT
by
bigtoona
To: 2ndDivisionVet
You really think even LIVs will tolerate this bs not saying a word crapola? It’s gonna sink in to some.
Like telling your kid not to do something.....
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:23:32 PM PDT
by
bicyclerepair
(The zombies here elected alcee hastings. TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
That this is happening, and that we have no idea where it will stop, is what should terrify useven if, like me, you dont particularly care one way or the other about the Washington Redskins.You had me and then you lost me. If you don't particularly care ... then you don't particularly care ... know what I mean?
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:23:45 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: bigtoona
The national divorce is overdue.
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:24:48 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $2Million for ANY 2016 pro-2nd Amendment candidate.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The name “free republic” offends me. I think it should be banned as it may induce people to rebell against the “state”.
Sincerely Valerie Jarrett
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:29:25 PM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
This is merely a slight extension of what the IRS was (is) doing to influence elections.
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:29:35 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: 2ndDivisionVet
the federal government will stop prosecuting violations of the teams intellectual property rightsThis is not true. The feds were not previously prosecuting violations of the team's IP rights. The team will just lose the possibility of a particular cause of action.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:30:49 PM PDT
by
FreeInWV
(Have you had enough change yet?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:35:22 PM PDT
by
FreeInWV
(Have you had enough change yet?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Liberals are doing this because if they can get away with this, they can get away with changing ANYTHING they want because its offensive to THEM..what next, the Blackhawks..the Cleveland Indians..the left is all about power and control, like they give a rats ass about Native Americans, please, they could care less, this is all about ceasing opportunity to gain more control over our lives
To: 2ndDivisionVet
This name-bullying has become a kind of sport for self-aggrandizing political activists, because if you can force everyone to change the name of somethinga sports team, a city, an entire race of peopleit demonstrates your power. This is true even if it makes no sense and especially if it makes no sense. How much more powerful are you if you can force people to change a name for no reason other than because theyre afraid you will vilify them?
Same logic for the gay activists.....if you can force someone to bake a cake or take pictures for your "wedding", you got da power.
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:38:57 PM PDT
by
Girlene
(Hey NSA!)
To: bigtoona
FLipper always kind of creeped me out when I was a kid.
The Miami Dolphins offend me.
Who do I contact?
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:42:44 PM PDT
by
Mygirlsmom
(Tea: A beverage best served cold. With RINO meat.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Unprog books will be deemed unworthy of copyright protection.
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:45:00 PM PDT
by
gasport
(Will operate for food.)
To: dr_lew
You easily lost then. It’s easy to see what he’s saying. The ‘Redskins’ issue is not particularly one to care about.
The real issue to care about is a small clique in government that applies the law selectively, targeting the politically incorrect even though the public could care less.
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:45:53 PM PDT
by
Hostage
(ARTICLE V)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
This guy has it right.
Some years ago the Washington Compost stopped referring to the Notre Dame teams as the "Fighting Irish" and called them instead the "Irish." As you may suspect from my username, I am an American of Irish descent. I am not an Irish-American - I agree with Teddy Roosevelt - no hyphenated Americans here.
We ARE the "Fighting Irish!" My family came over here from the Auld Sod - legally, of course - mostly as refugees from An Gorta Mor, some earlier. We fought for eight centuries to overthrow the tyranny to which we were subjected, and we have fought here to preserve this Nation. Don't insult me by dropping the "Fighting" from our name! We earned it!
Back to the Redskins. The term "Redskins" may well be disparaging. Still, we have this little thingy called the 1st Amendment that guarantees Freedom of Speech. Very limited exceptions to that Freedom.
It protects flag-burners.
It protects pornographers.
It protects the Jihadists who seek to undo our Nation and bring Death upon us all.
It protects the toxic lyrics of screeds by Kanye West and others - "n" word, "mf", etc.
I, as a Christian, am highly offended by the text of Kanye West's "works" and the works of others of his ilk. They profane my religion, they profane the sweat and sacrifice of my ancestors, they profane everything I believe in.
Guess I'll take a trip down the road to the Patent Office.
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:47:43 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Our system of government depends on the impartial administration of the laws by the executive. In this case, executive officials declared that a private company doesnt deserve the protection of the law: if the ruling survives an appeal in the courts, the federal government will stop prosecuting violations of the teams intellectual property rights, potentially costing it millions of dollars. This ruling isnt a slippery slope. Its a slope weve already slid down: bureaucrats in Washington are now empowered to make subjective decrees about what is offensive and what will be tolerated, based on pressure from a small clique of Washington insiders. Anyone who runs afoul of these decrees, anyone branded as regressive and politically incorrect, is declared outside the protection of the federal government.
That this is happening, and that we have no idea where it will stop, is what should terrify useven if, like me, you dont particularly care one way or the other about the Washington Redskins.
PFL
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:47:44 PM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The team got circumcised and are now known as the foreskins!
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:48:52 PM PDT
by
dalereed
To: 2ndDivisionVet
In the spirit of the spineless GOPe I think we have to go with the flow here.
We must bend to the wishes of our know it all, busybody white liberal bretheren who take it upon themselves to speak in the name of the noble American feather Indian. So the Redskin name must go!
However, we now have the chance to pick a name that amuses us. And we need to get on with that task.
I’m thinking that maybe we could go with the ‘Racist Whiteys’- this is a name that our leftist friends routinely use, so there can’t be anything objectionable about it. But it is kind of long, so maybe we should just shorten it to the Racists. Our leftist friends and their PC allies on the right think that name applies to a wide portion of the American people- so who can complain?
Go Racists! It has a ring to it...
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:49:18 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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