DF, I agree with you on flag burning. It is (and should be) protected speech. Many republicans are for “free speech” and then want to prohibit flag burning. That position is incongruous, IMO.
Also, spelling “speech” s-p-e-a-c-h is not a “messed up keystroke,” as you suggest. The e and the a are not particularly close to each other on the keyboard. It is an error of failure to attend to detail. Which will generally serve to discredit the underlying position.
John, if you believe name calling (libtard) elevates the debate, you’ll have to find another sparring partner. I’m not interested in that game.
Orion, I couldn’t agree more.
Valor, can you explain your reference to precedent? I’m not tracking you…
I would be more then happy to debate with you, my comment was more directed at the other 2. You at least started to debate. If you attack my spelling I will start calling names. I can play these childish games too.
Why don’t you try and not be an elitist jackass. I can admit when I am typing in a hurry my spelling is not the best, everyone struggles somewhere, I just struggle with spelling.
So now please go on I would love to hear about making a national day of don’t say anything bad about the government is not at least spitting in the face of free speech?
Why don’t you try and not be an elitist jackass. I can admit when I am typing in a hurry my spelling is not the best, everyone struggles somewhere, I just struggle with spelling.
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The forum has a built-in spell checker. But that’s probably too much Big Brother regulation from The Man, holding you back and bringing you down.
Why don’t you try and not be an elitist jackass. I can admit when I am typing in a hurry my spelling is not the best, everyone struggles somewhere, I just struggle with spelling.
The forum has a built-in spell checker. But that’s probably too much Big Brother regulation from The Man, holding you back and bringing you down.
Spel Bad Ore Dye!!!
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Christ, shut the fuck up. You have nothing to add to this. You continue to ignore the original point of the thread and just keep going after a spelling error.
Alright, my issue with the spelling error is not that spelling is a big deal, because everyone makes mistakes. However, poor spelling certainly shows a lack of attention to detail on your part, a deficiency that seems to have made you fail to see that Missouri Republican Samuel Graves introduced the same resolution last year, and now supports this one.
I don’t think designating a day as “Complaint Free Wednesday” will prevent citizens from complaining, nor is it intended as a means to curtail freedom of speech, but to remind people that they shouldn’t bitch so much. If this were a resolution that made political complaints illegal, then you’d have something.
You want examples of First Amendment threats, look at some (primarily if not entirely left-wing) political strategies used at Town Hall meetings to silence dissent. I think I remember hearing something about Obama’s website encouraging supporters of Health Care Reform to begin chanting when people tried to speak out against it at town hall meetings.
Why don’t you try and not be an elitist jackass. I can admit when I am typing in a hurry my spelling is not the best, everyone struggles somewhere, I just struggle with spelling.
The forum has a built-in spell checker. But that’s probably too much Big Brother regulation from The Man, holding you back and bringing you down.
How does this threaten their First Amendment rights? Oh yeah, it doesn’t. Quite fair too, seeing as the cretins would barely even let the congressmen talk.
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bigquig wrote:You want examples of First Amendment threats, look at some (primarily if not entirely left-wing) political strategies used at Town Hall meetings to silence dissent. I think I remember hearing something about Obama’s website encouraging supporters of Health Care Reform to begin chanting when people tried to speak out against it at town hall meetings.
How does this threaten their First Amendment rights? Oh yeah, it doesn’t. Quite fair too, seeing as the cretins would barely even let the congressmen talk.
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Apparently the cretins are smarter then you. A town hall is for the people to tell the Congressmen what they want. That’s ok your side will keep calling them names, the backlash that your side is building for itself is going to epic.
[quote]Ryan P. McCarter wrote:
bigquig wrote:You want examples of First Amendment threats, look at some (primarily if not entirely left-wing) political strategies used at Town Hall meetings to silence dissent. I think I remember hearing something about Obama’s website encouraging supporters of Health Care Reform to begin chanting when people tried to speak out against it at town hall meetings.
How does this threaten their First Amendment rights? Oh yeah, it doesn’t. Quite fair too, seeing as the cretins would barely even let the congressmen talk.
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Politically encouraged intervention to prevent people from speaking out against policy.
(By the way, “my side?” I wasn’t aware the Communists were involved[whoops, I forgot: they’ve infiltrated the press, the schools, the government, the courts, and Glenn Beck’s appendix!].)