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I'll be Still Alive
- Nov 29, 2008
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Here we go. We should have seen this coming.
Last week President Obama told me that Pastor Jones could be cited for public burning – but that was “the extent of the laws that we have available to us.” Rep. John Boehner said on "GMA" that “just because you have a right to do something in America does not mean it is the right thing to do.”
For Breyer, that right is not a foregone conclusion.
... he's not prepared to conclude that -- in the internet age -- the First Amendment condones Koran burning.
“Holmes said it doesn’t mean you can shout 'fire' in a crowded theater,” Breyer told me. “Well, what is it? Why? Because people will be trampled to death. And what is the crowded theater today? What is the being trampled to death?”
Justice Stephen Breyer: Is Burning Koran 'Shouting Fire In A Crowded Theater?' - George Stephanopoulos' Bottom Line
Burning the flag? Free speech.
Burning the Koran? National security concern.
How can you possibly compare the two?
Is Breyer senile or something? Did he just think 'wait both hypotheticals involve fire therefore they must be related'.
One of them makes people falsely believe their lives are in immediate danger, and thus may start a panic.
The other one will only offend people at most, but most sane people will not take it as a sign they're in danger (and I bet most insane people won't either)
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