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Topic: So explain to me this...(westboro appeal)

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/09/s … or-appeal/

I understand freedom of speech, but that doesn't mean freedom from the repercussions of
said free speech.

Therefore, if you protest at my wife's funeral in a horribly obnoxious way, I get to run
you down, and beat the living crap out of you, and I get to call this self-defense when
the police show up.

How's that for a compromise?

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The road to hell is doing something not in the contract.

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Re: So explain to me this...(westboro appeal)

Sounds good to me.

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Re: So explain to me this...(westboro appeal)

That whole church is on my "Cancer List".


You understand that I don't mean THEY should get terminal cancer, lthough that is a nice thought. I mean the list for in case I'M the one who gets it.

Would you fuckers quit giving me karma? I have a reputation to live down to!

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Re: So explain to me this...(westboro appeal)

MC Escher wrote:

I mean the list for in case I'M the one who gets it.

Hahahaha, that's awesome.

It seems like states could enact laws that prevent picketing around cemeteries, or use noise laws to restrict how audible your protest can be over what distance. I don't have an unlimited right to make noises (including speech) which can be heard over an unlimited distance, because others have a right to peace.

Freedom of speech isn't unlimited, as we all already know. Is prancing around shouting "got hates fags" and other awful things outside a funeral akin to "fire" in a theater?

Maybe some people should start rioting in response to these protests, to prove the point that their speech is inflammatory enough not to be protected.

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