Hustler magazine is 1st Amendment protected speech too. So is Klan cross-burning. Nice company she keeps.
That is a narrow view.
It's a big umbrella.
She is also in company with millions and millions of patriots, humanitarians and just plain good people who exercised their 1st amendment rights dating back to 1791.
“Hustler magazine is 1st Amendment protected speech too. So is Klan cross-burning. Nice company she keeps.”
...and so is your right to say the above. Nice broad brush you are using.
It’s the “company” that was set up by the First Amendment ... the same company you keep by posting here ... :-) ...
By all means don’t use your right to free speech then, dhimmi.
[ Hustler magazine is 1st Amendment protected speech too. So is Klan cross-burning. Nice company she keeps. ]
You are a SCHMUCK!
Hustler magazine is something that is sold in stores and stores can choose to sell them or not!
Cross burning “Klan Style” is illegal because it involves TRESPASSING ONTO someone ELSE’s Property and creating an firehazard/ARSON by burning a cross on someone else’s PROPERTY and it is a threat in that way. TRESPASSING AND ARSON ARE BOTH CRIMES!
Now if a moron Kook Klux Klucker wants to burn a cross on their own property then they can, I don’t like it, but they should LEGALLY be able to do so as longs as the burning wood doesn’t cause a fire hazard that could potentially spread to their neighbor’s property and they get the proper LOCAL GOVT. fire permits as needed. Personally I will be hoping the fire spreads from their burning cross onto their own house.
And just to clarify the 1st amendment, The first amendment is not the right to free speech for individuals, it is the protection of the citizens FROM government to prevent them from ABRIDGING the Natural right of free speech.
Though I have some problems with including pornography, and threats of violence associated with cross-burning (like say, when done on the front lawn of a person which others seek to intimidate) here's that Amendment, the 1st one on the list, coming about as it did, as point of positive affirmation & clarification;
— The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
So what say you now Romulus?
Is the freedom of speech the root of all sin?
“Hustler magazine is 1st Amendment protected speech too. So is Klan cross-burning. Nice company she keeps.”
Romulus, back in the day when the KKK was burning crosses and lynching people, did the newspapers and radio blame the victims for causing the KKK to do those things?
Probably not.