[BIGLOOK]

Heads up ping

[a fool in paradise]

Generalisimo Nagin is pleased with this decision.

[pepsi_junkie]

You may all now begin addressing me as Supreme Allied Commander Gerneralisimo pepsi_junkie

[ozzymandus]

I’m headed down to the bar to pick up some chicks with my 4 Medals Of Honor. Hope I don’t run into any real vets. Better go to a democrat bar.

[KC_Lion]

Whoa! Hold on a Minute, I thought The Supreme Court didn’t like to strike down Congressional Law, you know, things like Ubamacare!

[a fool in paradise]

The Supreme Court cited First Amendment rights to free speech in striking down a law that made it a federal crime to falsely claim to have been awarded military-honor medals.

So the Supreme Court just defended the concept of phony soldiers. Remember when liberals got outraged at Rush even mentioning that some of the Iraq protesters were PHONY SOLDIERS? As if no one ever played pretend to grant themselves more credibility?

[a fool in paradise]

Next we will be told by this court (and the wise latina) that identity theft is merely more free speech by foreign nationals.

[Jumpmaster]

Fine, but anyone correcting this bad behavior should be immune from prosecution!

[stockpirate]

But the government can tax you for lieing about your military service.

[Cicero]

So. It looks like Justice Roberts has come completely out of the closet as a flaming liberal.

The Court is now 5 liberals, 3 conservatives, and 1 swing vote.

And Obama didn’t even need to make another appointment.

I wonder what kind of threat they are holding over Roberts? He has voted conservative in the past, but evidently no longer.

[JimSEA]

Gee, now I don’t have to tell folks I was just a duffus putting up antennas for two years. I can tell them I was a swift boat commander with silver and bronze stars sent home in glory after getting three purple hearts. How exciting.

[nothingnew]

In my lifetime I've witnessed 3 of the worst USSC decisions:

Roe vs Wade

Kelo

The decision today on the healthcare debacle.

Now we have this.....What's next?

Keep your powder dry!

FMCDH(BITS)

[napscoordinator]

I knew that would be struck down...I think it is tragic that someone would fake being a war hero....However, the First Amendment is far more important in the big scheme of things.

[newzjunkey]

Despite the "good intentions" this ruling was a give-me. There was no justification for how the law was written since it overextends into private communications rather more narrowly aiming for cases where fraud is occurring.

Real constitutional conservatives would understand this.

[Cyber Liberty]

Not surprising at all.

[gdani]

I can fully understand people (me included) get upset when people claim military honors they never received.

But striking down this misguided law is a victory against big government. What would be next, making it a federal criminal offense to lie on a dating website?

[FreeAtlanta]

Ok, so perceived crimes of thought such as “Hate Crimes” are constitutional, but crimes with real evidence like lying about doing something you didn’t do are unconstitutional. It is a screwed up world.

[Vineyard]

Well, the Chief Weasel, John Roberts, has pointed the way to “fix the problem.”

Pass a new “STOLEN VALOR TAX”, and individuals who claim to have military honors that are unearned are subject to a 75% income tax.

There....Fixed It!! Roberts has declared that Congress has the right to pass all sorts of taxes!! So why not tax speech that is shown to be lies. (And then later on, we can grow that line to tax political speech that is “judged” to be incorrect ....with people like Nazi Pelosi as the judge ....)

CONSTITUTION ....limited Government??? WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ CONSTITUTION!!

[RetiredTexasVet]

I have just this minute claimed a PHD. You may now address me as Doctor RetiredTexasVet. I may not have earned it, but my free speech authorizes it per the Supreme Court.

[SuperLuminal]

Wow! Guess his means that I can freely talk about my 9 CMH's, 8 Navy Crosses, 28 Purple Hearts, and 2 Nobel Peace Prizes...(And this is just from one marriage...)