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To: Dead Corpse

I get where you’re coming from. I do.

You have the right to yell “FIRE”. You have the right to enter as many crowded theaters as you want to.

Therefore you have the right to yell “FIRE in a crowded theater.

“Keep trying though.”

Back atcha pal.


63 posted on 08/20/2013 10:49:39 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Fail.


83 posted on 08/20/2013 11:12:59 AM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
I get where you’re coming from. I do.
You have the right to yell “FIRE”. You have the right to enter as many crowded theaters as you want to.
Therefore you have the right to yell “FIRE in a crowded theater.

Ok, do you know where that example came from?
It came from the Supreme Court in Schenck v. United States, which came about in WWI due to a socialist printing out tracts that condemned the draft as immoral and encouraged non-compliance and the lawful alteration of the law. The Supreme Court ruled against him, despite the first amendment protecting that speech exactly, in order to avoid invalidating Congress's laws, much like they did in Wickard v Filburn.

The statement is a baldfaced lie: the proper response is to hold the shouter [if there was no fire] to be liable in civil cases.

193 posted on 08/20/2013 7:08:25 PM PDT 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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