Posted on 04/03/2011 10:21:05 AM PDT by dalight
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says congressional lawmakers are discussing taking some action in response to the Koran burnings of a Tennessee pastor that led to killings at the U.N. facility in Afghanistan and sparked protests across the Middle East, Politico reports.
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Congress might need to explore the need to limit some forms of freedom of speech, in light of Tennessee pastor Terry Jones’ Quran burning, and how such actions result in enabling U.S. enemies.
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You have idiots on FR who love their Obama loving celebs on Fox Al Waleed like Beck and O Reilly more than the Constitution. One idiot taking Beck’s side over Trump. Obama TV addicted morons.
Graham and the rest of them are just freaking little pussies. Not one full nutsack between all of them. Seriously.
Only the Arabic text is considered the "real" Quran. An English translation would not count. On that basis, going online, printing off a few pages of Arabic Quran text, and burning those pages would count as burning the Quran.
Here's a question: would printing off some pages of Quranic text, partially burning them so that part of the page is burnt but the unburnt part clearly identifies it as from the Quran, and then pasting the partially burnt pages to telephone poles in arab neighborhoods qualify as performance art? What are the chances of getting a grant for it?
Just hold it right there hoss. That's way too close to my grant application. I gots the partially burned arabic xerox of the quran rest atop nine cubic yards of camel.( That's one hump and two hump kind) dung soaked in gallons and gallons of genuine north African hyena urine, all dumped in front of local DNC offices all over the country.
Just a question of sifting through the thousands driver applications before I get that Ford Foundation grant.
Im sure Mr Pearl will be called to testify,,,very important witness.
Liberals like Reid and Graham are always looking for some excuse to limit free speech. We don’t have to do this to deal idiots like Terry Jones. “Freedom of speech” protects expression of ideas and does not protect incitement to riot of inflict harm.
These are the same RATS that are always crying “separation of church and state”. How can the U.S. Congress, by any stretch of the imagination, investigate the actions of a church?
It doesn’t take much to “incite” riots among Islamists. They’ll riot at the drop of a feather. They’re OVERBEARING! You think they’ll temper their insistence that all of us are to accept dhimmitude and bow to them? HELL NO! - The line in the sand is drawn. The sword of Islam STOPS at the shores of America! PC has sunk Europe. Obama can bow until his back breaks under the sword of Islam; but it’s unbecoming.
What someone needs to organize is a national “burn a Koran day”
Um, NO. It’s called the First Amendment, idiot.
RINO’s and Liberals in DC only allow Bibles, US Flags and the US Constitution to be burned dontchyaknow....
Oh, just like they investigated Newsweek for writing that fake story on Koran burning that resulted in a riot that killed 19 people. That was okay since it was the media? Islam can kill all the Christians they want for whatever excuse and nary a peep. If those Muslims were so upset why then didn’t they riot and kill in Florida where it happened???
Limit freedom of speech because it might irritate "the enemy"? I don't think so.
Refer to McCain - Feingold.
Any such move would be unconstitutional.Well, in Bush's defense, he said it was unconstitutional, too. Oh, wait....Tell that to GWB, who signed a similar measure designed to protect incumbant politicians into law.
But I'm sure that President Whoever, speaking ex cathedra from the See of CinC, will be able to deal with the problem. Such are the wonders of modern Constitutional theory.
The Incitement Test (Brandenburg)
“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 and is likely to incite or produce such action.”
Let them pursue it, for in pursuing investigation and prosecution they prove the imminent dangers of islam.
This could all work in our favor if we frame it correctly. A person or culture can be provoked to violence by the burning of some book in another country...now...let them finally define the enemy of the United States of America.
July 4th is National Burn the koran day. I will buy one and burn a page a day. Maybe if we all plan to do it they will ban the sale of the koran. Also, owning a copy would save on some toilet paper expense.
Lindy can have my Koran when he pries it from my cold, wet septic tank.
I was so sure it was a satire that I googled it. Links all over the place, in just two hours on Sunday afternoon. This guy is a lawyer?!?
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