Tonight the town of Hebron is going to create Free Speech Zones with its ban on public protest at funerals. As disgraceful as funeral protesters are, it is a form of public expression that you simply cannot restrict according to the First Amendment.
This is a statement issued by Town...
Middleborough, Massachusetts has banned swearing in public. Punishable by a $20 fine for each discretion.
Profanity banned in Middleborough, Mass., no !%^@!#$%&*!!!! - Crimesider - CBS News
Adam Kokesh plans a swearing protest.
LANGUAGE...
Some folks just can't get that whole "Congress Shall Make No Law abridging the freedom of speech" thing. Nancy and some of her buddies are looking for an amendment to regulate free speech. Sheesh. Some people just don't get it.
WATCH: Pelosi: 'Amend the Constitution' | Campaign 2012 - MEGA...
Gloria Allred seeks Rush Limbaugh prosecution - MJ Lee - POLITICO.com
Excerpt below. I doubt this is going to go anywhere but I find it interesting that the left actually want Rush prosecuted for exercising his first Amendment rights. I thought they were the party that cherished free speech.
Earlier today I was walking around Chesterton Indiana with a hand-draw picture of Ron Paul. There is a local festival going on, and the streets have been designated for foot traffic only. There are vendors set up on the street and whatnot. Elephant ears and hoagies. A pretty low key event...
Geert Wilders, the fiery right-wing Dutch politician, was acquitted on Thursday of hate speech charges by an Amsterdam court, which found that his inflammatory comments about Muslims were protected by rules governing discourse in a free society.
Mr. Wilders, 47, had faced a possible one-year...
I find it interesting that the issue of abortion tends to make people supposedly all about free speech change their stance.
Jilted ex-boyfriend puts up abortion billboard - Yahoo! News--
Freedom on trial in Netherlands **UPDATE: FREEDOM WINS**
UPDATE: Wilders acquitted. Link in post 16.
Blog: Geert Wilders Closing Remarks at His Kafkaesque Trial
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I fear we are not that far from similar proceedings within our own...
I've been wanting to have this discussion for some time.
I often hear people say that the act of yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater is the one acceptable time when the 1st Amendment may be infringed. I say that it isn't. There are no acceptable infringements of the 1st Amendment.Congress...
An elderly retired colonel. A blind man with a walking stick. Old people with perm haircuts. Menacing "Code Pink" war protesters. The guy who brought forth the Pentagon Papers. These and other peaceful protesters marched with signs toward the gates of the Quantico military base. Their...
What an oxymoron -- You want to protest the government, but you have to get their approval and pay a tax to do so. That's what passes for freedom in America these days.
Protest "permits" are nothing but a tax and a blatant violation of the 1st amendment.
Now protesters are being...