[Brush_Your_Teeth]

If the city banned only pro-life messages I agree. The fact that they are banning all messages by airplanes is not a first admendment issue. If a city does not want planes flying over its beaches with ADs on them they can do so. I am pro-life however the city is in the right on this instance. It would be the same if the city wanted to ban all billboards within city limits. It is their right and something they should be allowed to do.

[Vic3O3]

You may be correct on the 1st Amend. issue technically, but I bet you WILL see planes towing banners over the highschool/college football games in town! Then it WILL be a 1st Amend. issue, since the ban will not be applied equally.

[syriacus]

If the city banned only pro-life messages I agree. The fact that they are banning all messages by airplanes is not a first admendment issue.

What if cities banned printing newspapers?

[Notwithstanding]

No. It is "overbroad", meaning the solution is too broad for the "problem".

Example: NYC bans all handbills because they create a mess on the streets. Supreme Court rules that such a ban - even though it applies to all speakers using handbills regardless of their message - is overbroad.

[muawiyah]

The city has no right whatsoever to regulate air traffic overhead. That authority resides with the federal government - see "post offices and post roads" for starters.

[Lester Moore]

I am pro-life however the city is in the right on this instance. It would be the same if the city wanted to ban all billboards within city limits. It is their right and something they should be allowed to do.

The 'city' is a government and governments have no Rights. Governments only have powers. This is about some citizens doing something that a majority in the city government find distasteful, which is just tough doo doo. The citizens do not exist at the behest and convenience of the government. It is the city government, and those in it, that exists soly for the purpose of serving the citizens. Being a public servant is too often taken to really mean being a public overlord. This action was to shut up the prolifers and is clearly a knee jerk reaction by those in city government to stop citizens from doing something that wasn't approved of.

I think the mayor needs a gaggle of prolife protestors on the sidewalk in front of his house for 10 or 15 days to enlighten him on freedom of speech.

[Old Professer]

If a city does not want planes flying over its beaches with ADs on them they can do so.

By what authority?

[BJungNan]

If a city does not want planes flying over its beaches with ADs on them they can do so.

They do not have juridiction over the air space. I think that juridiction belongs to the FAA.