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Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
Their right of free speech is no less valuable or critical to our overall freedom than mine.
Originally posted by CoolStoryMan
Come on guys, this act is not a spit in the face of our rights as many other things. all it's asking is you give the families, and comrades of our fallen troops 2 hours to grieve, is that to much to ask? Westboro baptist church is a jizz stain on the underpants of america, we SHOULDN'T have to do this, but psychopaths likes them make these things necessary
Originally posted by beezzer
Originally posted by CoolStoryMan
Come on guys, this act is not a spit in the face of our rights as many other things. all it's asking is you give the families, and comrades of our fallen troops 2 hours to grieve, is that to much to ask? Westboro baptist church is a jizz stain on the underpants of america, we SHOULDN'T have to do this, but psychopaths likes them make these things necessary
I have to disagree. Freedom is what these young men and women died for.
It saddens me to see so many people willing to sacrifice freedoms for convenience.
Originally posted by ThePublicEnemyNo1
Yeah Whatever!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Want to know how I feel...truly? My father was one of the first US Green Berets ever and a Vietnam Vet (1960 - 1963 first term) instead of giving him his props they called him an "advisor". That's how I feel about Washington's Bull Crap!!!!!!!!! Not to mention my Dad returned to camp missing half of his teeth...they put him in the category of POW/Unknown!!!!!!! What, unknown....my Dad went missing for at least 30 days and when he returned he was missing half of his teeth!!!!!! I won't play the race card because it's unnecessary.
ETA:
BTW, Go Obama Oh and BTW again, if they wanted to help my Dad, they wouldn't have waited for him to be deemed a victim of Agent Orange, Pink, White and blue until after he died of Prostate Cancer. Flame me all day if you want to...I could careless, my Dad was a real American Hero, and in the end he got nothing ...not even a flag under the Bush or Obama era. And yeeesss, I've asked to no avail.
Anger couldn't make my words more clear that I'm angry Yeah, I'm MAD!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, I forgot to add that his DD214 got burnt up in a mysterious fire around 1973...perfectedit on 8/4/12 by ThePublicEnemyNo1 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by OptimusSubprime
reply to post by SloAnPainful
Although I detest Westboro and all that they stand for, I am concerned about these new restrictions. It looks great on the surface. It looks like we finally stuck it to those idiots from Westboro, but what this really does is place a restriction on the exercise of free speech and the right to assemble. All this will do is set a legal precedent for other groups and will allow for some activist judge to use said precedent and apply it to any speech or gathering. This is a blow to the first amendment, and Congress has used a group that most people despise in order to set the legal precedent for pro-gun groups, Tea Party Groups, or any other group out there. The best way to handle Westboro is by having the community come together like they did in Texas a few weeks ago when the students from Texas A&M formed a blockade between Westboro and a funeral.
Originally posted by beezzer
I'm actually shocked that so many here on ATS would espouse a restriction of a freedom!
Come on guys, this act is not a spit in the face of our rights as many other things. all it's asking is you give the families, and comrades of our fallen troops 2 hours to grieve, is that to much to ask? Westboro baptist church is a jizz stain on the underpants of america, we SHOULDN'T have to do this, but psychopaths likes them make these things necessary
Originally posted by Kaploink
Originally posted by beezzer
I'm actually shocked that so many here on ATS would espouse a restriction of a freedom!
I am not surprised. People are very willing to curtail rights when it suppresses a message they don't agree with. They yell about government limiting freedoms all the time, but are silent when it censors those they don't like.
I despise the tactics used by Westboro, but removing freedoms available to all Americans is not the answer.