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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I suspect the framers of the First Amendment did not believe that it gave us all the right to prevent someone from speaking by shouting them down.
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Ty - in the realm of speech, all the first amendment does is bar THE GOVERNMENT from preventing us from speaking based on the content* of what we are saying in certain situations and that was my point. Private citizens are not barred from preventing someone else from speaking by the first amendment, and especially not if it is done on private property. You do get that, don't you? Because by what you have written it seems like you don't get it.
*with some notable exceptions like yelling "fire" in a crowded movie theater or apparantly by running political ads paid for by certain groups within so many days before an election (!)
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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Holmes said the First Amendment does not give you the right to shout "fire" at a crowded Dean rally, and I think he would have not come out differently had the hypothetical involved LaRouche ravings instead.
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But Ty, Al Frankenfreak is not the GOVERMENT. See that is the state action requirement I was talking about. The first amendment only bars the GOVERNMENT from stopping speech. It does not authorize private citizens to stop someone else from speaking in order to allow another person to be heard.
