Posted on 09/14/2010 6:19:55 AM PDT by kristinn
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has expressed a willingness to ban protesters from burning the Koran as the modern day equivalent of shouting fire in a crowded theater.
The Supreme Court has ruled burning the American flag in protest is protected speech under the First Amendment of the Constitution.
Breyer spoke to George Stephanopoulos on ABC's Good Morning America today:
But Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer told me on "GMA" that he's not prepared to conclude that -- in the internet age -- the First Amendment condones Koran burning.
“Holmes said it doesn’t mean you can shout 'fire' in a crowded theater,” Breyer told me. “Well, what is it? Why? Because people will be trampled to death. And what is the crowded theater today? What is the being trampled to death?”
Breyer is promoting his new book, Making Our Democracy Work.
Breyer was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1994 by President Bill Clinton.
For the unknowing, illinformed and the wary:
There is no such thing as moderate Islam.
All knowingly subscribe to Sharia which is a pillar of their societal structure.
When the founding fathers thought of America, their little baby, the last thing they wanted was an invasive force to stifle, smother it, and then overwhelm it and kill it.
Most people do not recognize that what happens in a mosque is sedition. Pure and simple. Islam is not just a “religion”, it is a cult. Larger than that though, it is a political system, it is it’s own government, a economic system (which includes funding new mosque construction), its judicial...all wrapped up in the word sharia. This is inclusive of its military (jihadis) all rolled into one with one intent ...and that is to rule wherever they take root. It is a invasive, systemic infection looking to take over the host once it has quantum.
This is not just a “religion”, but something that cloaks itself in those terms so it should not be given the same treatment contemplated under the first amendment. The Korans Sharia rules are to consume whatever government there is wherever it goes.
Islam is political, and it’s goal is to supplant and replace. Globally.
When the founding fathers thought of America, their little baby, the last thing they wanted was an invasive force to stifle, smother it, and then overwhelm it and kill it.
The sooner America learns this , the better. Some know and many do not, but it is a threat to everything America knows.
Obama? Obama and Company? Should be tried for treason in this issue for promoting the establishment of a foreign government on our soils. He is doing nothing to protect America as per his oath. Also, as a Muslim, he knows this, he know far better, he knows sharia, but is looking to deceive America.
For all interested...Wanna learn more?
On Sharia
http://thehayride.com/2010/08/louisiana-at-leading-edge-in-fight-against-shariah/#more-5392
On sharia global finance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7iHxl90CD0&feature=related
On sharia global Economy and huge financial fraud!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbb5s8hALVE&feature=related
this,
Three things about Islam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9rofXQl6w&feature=player_embedded
and a little Bill Whittle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg_iDPRud_c
Maybe we should talk about the birth of Pakistan?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IstZSgniH8
I really dislike having my money or seeing other American money spent through VISA, HSBC, AIG et. al. products etc to prop up attacks against us through their sharia products.
*Thanks. I try for a high signal-to-noise ratio*
You get a 599!
This is a sophisticated rendering of “the squeaky wheel gets the grease.”
Exactly. Now, do you think they would pursue the same logic if someone threatens to kill people over abortion, or any other provacative activity they’ve ruled is “constiutionally protected”?
That was my point.
And that would only guarantee a huge boost in koran and lighter fluid sales.
I’ll bring the marshmellows...
Intimidation works. Self-censorship borne out of fear is the worst, most insidious form of restrictions on free speech of all.
Breyer made it sound like Breyer on his own, or the Supreme Court, can ban Koran burning. They don’t have that kind of direct authority. In order for such a ban to be put in place, Congress would have to pass a law banning Koran burning, and the president would have to sign it. Then challenges to that law would have to make their way through the sludge-like federal court system. When, and only when, it reached the Supreme Court could people like Breyer rule it to be Constitutional. I just don’t see that happening. I don’t see Congress doing that, although no doubt BO would sign it (and I don’t think even BO is dumb enough to try to accomplish this by executive fiat). I think such a law would cause the kind of uproar that has elected officials fearing a quick end to their political careers, and would die a slow, painful death if proposed. Had they not long ago endorsed flag-burning, it might have had half a chance.
“And that would only guarantee a huge boost in koran and lighter fluid sales.”
bacon fat or lard would be a better.
Don’t burn it, ban it. It’s a book of hatred urging murder. And it’s there in any language you translate it into.
Mohamed Atta carried just such a passage as his inspiration to kill.
So the Christian Bible would be protected, too, right? According to the left, Christians are even more dangerous.
If our own government were to tell me I couldn't burn a koran, I'd burn one every week while praying for liberty. If everyone did it, they couldn't catch us all. In fact, burning the koran would become another ritual of remembrance - A remembrance of the Declaration of Independence.
Burn a koran day would become a national holiday for real, and the patriots would see to it that it was.
Remember how Dr. Spock and virtually all experts on the behavior of children advised us to give in to tantrums and threats of violence from children so that they will grow up to be good people???
....neither do I.....
Not just the extremist,I think it invites everyone to use the same escalating levels of bad behavior to accomplish their goal.
If one group is not bound by the law why should another?
Weird, ain’t it?
So burning a flag is protected speech, but burning a Koran can be banned? Burning a Koran doesn’t meet the imminent and likely test. It isn’t intended to create an imminent and likely violation of the law.
Brandenburg v. Ohio
http://www.ask.com/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action?qsrc=3044
IMPEACH THE BASTARD!!!
THIS is where THEY are going with OUR Constitutional Rights.
They should read the Declaration of Independence - the part about whenever a government become abusive of these ends it is the right of the people to abolish it.
America was founded on Enlightenment Principles - the concept of all human beings have certain unalienable rights that come from their Creator, not from any government. The First Ten Amendments recognize those Rights, they don’t grant them, hence they cannot be abridged.
The idea that burning a filthy piece of crap like the Koran constitutes shouting fire in a crowded theater holds no water. The only threat comes from those individuals worshipping the Koran. Take away that right and the state in effect is recognizing Islam as a special case and Muslims as a protected class.
The mere fact that he has STATED this, shoudl REQUIRE this bastard to recuse himself from any future cases arising in the future with regard to such an idiotic idea.
While the media repeats, "Move Along, Nothing to See Here"
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