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Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Westboro Protest at Marine's Funeral
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyThe Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday over a classic First Amendment case: At what point does free speech become so offensive that is loses its protection under the Constitution? At issue are the crude anti-gay protests staged by members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church at military funerals. The father of a Marine killed in Iraq has asked the court to reinstate a $5 million judgment against the Rev. Fred Phelps and other church members who picketed his son's funeral, carrying signs saying "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" and "God Hates Fags." Phelps and his followers were ...
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Facebook Shuts Fan Page for Berlusconi Attacker
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Dec. 16) -- Facebook will monitor content on its site concerning Silvio Berlusconi in the wake of an attack on the Italian prime minster that left him with a broken and bloody nose, The New York Times reported today. Soon after the attack, Italian officials indicated they would crack down on social networking sites, saying that they were helping to "instigate" violence against Berlusconi, according to The Christian Science Monitor. But Facebook seems to have acted on its own in shutting down the fan page for Massimo Tartaglia, the man who is accused of hitting Berlusconi on Sunday, after it ...
Opinion: What's Wrong With This Picture?
By not in system - AOL NewsErle Rawlins III (Nov. 23) - The dry cleaning discount sign in this store window violates a Dallas ordinance on proper window signage. When Charlie Patel decided to put a 30 percent off sign in the window of his Lakeside Cleaners business in Dallas, little did he realize he would run afoul of a city law, or that he would find himself at the center of a lawsuit that will help determine the limits of government-imposed restrictions on free speech. Patel's sign violated a Dallas ordinance, passed in June 2008, that prohibits companies from putting commercial signs in the "the upper two-thirds ...
Palin Billboard Fight 'a Crusade' for Rights
By Richard C. Paddock - AOL News(Nov. 12) -- Alan Herson and his son, Jeffrey, have been fighting for years for the right to build billboards in Western states. Jeffrey Herson runs commercial billboard companies. His father, an attorney, files lawsuits on his behalf. "It's a crusade," says the elder Herson, who won a landmark billboard case in Oregon in 2006. "We fight for truth, justice and the American way." Their latest target is the city of San Carlos, Calif., a suburb of San Francisco where they hope to erect a billboard promoting Sarah Palin for president in 2012. The sign, which could also display commercial ...
Glenn Beck Boycott: Censorship or Good Citizenship?
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailySo, the number of corporate sponsors that have pulled their advertising dollars from The Glenn Beck Program grew to 20 on Tuesday. Walmart, Best Buy and Travelocity joined the list of companies that, depending on your point of view, should be classified as either responsible corporate citizens or easily bullied cowards. The statements of the corporations themselves tend to confirm the second option. But first the background: ...
Ireland's New Blasphemy Law: Say What?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyWell, Bonnie and Ria, I think I've found a solution to all those nasty, hate-filled freepers who've been saying ugly things about Malia Obama. Ship them over to Ireland. ...
GOP Congressman on Islam and Free Speech
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyGOP Congressman Peter Hoekstra has an article in the WSJ entitled, "Islam and Free Speech." The impetus for Hoekstra's piece is the upcoming release of Dutch political leader Geert Wilders' critical film on Islam. The film, Fitna, apparently contains several images which Muslims are bound to find offensive. Thus, the Dutch are again at the tip of the spear in a cultural (sometimes literal) battle between radical Islam and Western democracies. A few excerpts of Rep. Hoekstra's piece are below, but the entire piece is worth a read: Reasonable men in free societies regard Geert Wilders's ...
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