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Sarah Chayes, former special assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a resident associate at the Carnegie Endowment and a contributing writer to Opinion.
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Book of Mormon?
Life of Brian?
Or does the First Amendment depend entirely on non violent listeners?
For a paper in a movie town to oppose free speech is disappointing.
I’m looking for the equivalent op-ed from the LA Slimes claiming that “Piss Christ” didn’t meet the First Amendment test either.I can’t seem to find it...can any fellow Freepers help me out with my search skills?
Her “reasoning” is crap.
Fascist apologetics.
Hey LA Times... Did PISS CHRIST meet the free speech test!?!?
yeah, that’s what I thought!
God I can’t stand these liberals
OMG google this libtards picture but be prepared with a wastebasket because you’re going to projectile vomit. This hideous thing looks like it’s from the planet Plutarius.
So does this mean we can now censor the calls for violence in the Koran? Can we now silence Muslims in America and begin to close radical Mosques?
Selective and “progressive” restrictions on the Bill of Rights is absolutely necessary if Obama is to complete his agenda.
“Or does the First Amendment depend entirely on non violent listeners?”
Yes, that’s the absolutely insane implication she’s making.
Yell louder at how offended you are and threaten violence over it, and be rewarded by foolish, stupid people who say you’re reaction justifies removing free-speech protection from the thing in question.
Completely barking mad. And dangerous.
So if someone threatens to kill people if they don’t like an LA Times editorial, then that editorial is no longer protected as free speach?
You don't really need to read beyond this point. The premise is so flawed it isn't even in the same universe as reality.
Whatever this guy's goals were, his efforts WERE NOT tailored to put lives and property at immediate risk.
They were tailored to spread what this guy thought was truth regarding Islam.
This idiot writer is doing nothing more than making the case that the First Amendment needs to be carved up nearly as badly as the Second Amendment already is.
Lets see, the Fourth Amendment means nothing anymore. The Second Amendment is under attack daily. The first Amendment is now fair game. Our President doesn't bother to defend the Constitution, and he refuses to do his duty under Article IV Section 4. This bitch is simply one more person who doesn't give a fig about our God given rights.
Unbelievable that a major mass-circulation daily would take this position. If this isn't protected under the 1st Amendment what is?
Holmes’ words are very often used in attempts to quash politically incorrect speech. The key word in his statement, the one that the facists like to omit, is “falsely”. It IS protected speech, for one to shout “FIRE!” in a crowded theater, so long as it is actually ablaze. The lie that this movie trailer, IN ANY WAY “led to the attacks” is a damned outrage. These Camel-humpers can blame their bad behavior on anything that anyone says if this is allowed to stand.
"You are free, Comrade, as long as you do what we allow you to do"
If you’re in a crowded theater and notice a fire up in the projection booth, what do you do?
There’s a difference between a false warning of danger vs. offending someone’s sensibilities knowing that someone may choose to get violent about it.
The closest legal concept she’s grasping for is “fighting words”, and insulting a dead guy to do so is quite a stretch.
Excuse me? FREE SPEECH TEST?
Sorry, we don’t have to take into account the behavior of the sub-humans who follow a demon-possessed pedophile prophet. We just need to kill them in job lots when they threaten or annoy us. And we need a president who will this.
If that’s the case both the editorial staff of the LA Slimes and the NEA should be tried and put to death.