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To: Stone Mountain
right to be obnoxious in this country

This is a common misunderstanding of the First Amendment. Rather than getting theoretical over it, let me remind you that public decency laws were upheld till very recently in this country by judges that understood the Constitution far better than the current bunch.

551 posted on 01/27/2005 10:24:32 AM PST by annalex
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To: annalex
This is a common misunderstanding of the First Amendment. Rather than getting theoretical over it, let me remind you that public decency laws were upheld till very recently in this country by judges that understood the Constitution far better than the current bunch.

Well, it's just your opinion that the judges who overturned the public decency laws understood the Constitution better than the ones who upheld them. In any case, those laws were overturned and I don't think it's misunderstanding the First Amendment to assert that we have a right to be obnosious in this country.
557 posted on 01/27/2005 10:35:50 AM PST by Stone Mountain
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