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2012-01-04 Home Front: Culture Wars

US District Judge Deems Muslims Assaulting Jews To Be 'Free Speech'

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Posted by Anonymoose 2012-01-04 13:36|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 So I can assault people I disagree with and call it free speech?!? Fucking awesome! Let me get my baseball bat with nails in it and start on some black robed tyrants!

Posted by DarthVader 2012-01-04 14:28|| 2012-01-04 14:28|| Front Page Top

#2 U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg

I wonder what percent of his rulings are overturned at higher levels? No doubt it will increase as a result of this ruling.

Posted by trailing wife 2012-01-04 15:23|| 2012-01-04 15:23|| Front Page Top

#3 So, by that logic, Jews gunning down their attackers would be classed as "vigorous debate"?

Posted by mojo 2012-01-04 15:34|| 2012-01-04 15:34|| Front Page Top

#4 "Anakin: When I got to them we got into aggressive negotiations.

Padme: Aggressive negotiations? What's that?

Anakin: Ah, well, it's negotiations with a lightsaber."

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Free speech is not an absolute right (e.g. yelling "Fire" in a crowed movie theater).

"your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins"
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The same can be said of shopping carts. That judge is an idiot.

Posted by Mike Ramsey 2012-01-04 16:52|| 2012-01-04 16:52|| Front Page Top

#5 "The incident in which Felber was assaulted with a shopping cart . . . did not occur in the context of her educational pursuit," Seeborg stated.

So you see, it all depends on the context. Maiming and killing would not have been within the penumbra of protected speech here, because it occurred on a tony university campus.

But perhaps at the corner of, say, 104th and Wentworth, the penumbra expands to include maiming and killing to settle a turf war or a drug deal, which would also presumably not occur in the context of an educational pursuit.

Besides, bumps and bruises when the bitch wuz askin for it are totally different. You can look it up.

/sarc off

Posted by RandomJD 2012-01-04 17:13|| 2012-01-04 17:13|| Front Page Top

#6 As citizens we would be better served to replace this judge with a Lucky Eight Ball. Justice would be served 50% of the time at a lower cost. The justifications for rulings could be provided as coherently with a book of Mad Libs.

Posted by Super Hose 2012-01-04 21:32|| 2012-01-04 21:32|| Front Page Top

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