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    Default Re: What does the First Ammendment mean?

    Quote Originally Posted by Duke of Gloucester
    A question for the USA members of the forum.

    Following the charging of Wang Wenyi for heckling the Chinese president, what rights does the first ammendment protect?

    From BBC news:
    "Her lawyer argued she was entitled to free speech under the First Amendment.

    Prosecutors said the amendment did not allow her to break the law."

    So why does the First Ammendement allow laws that restrict free speech, or am I missing something here?

    BBC website for the full story
    There's a law called drunk and disorderly conduct, and I'm pretty sure disrupting the peace is along the same premise. There was no reason for her heckling a foriegn official on an official visit. I don't know if I'm wrong here but the White House would be the presidents private home, not public grounds, thus you could remove whomever you wanted. She's like those arseholes at the state of the union address who decided not to dress for the occasion, gotta love the T-Shirt and pants at the State of the Union. Now its just a few days until the bleeding heart liberals start screaming he's suppressing the masses for removing a heckler.
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    I'm far from a bleeding heart liberal (just ask Idaho).

    The powers that be have ignored these breaches of human rights even as they invade other countries to uphold them, so scared are they of loosing a trading partner.

    One person has the courage to officially demonstrate what is going on, and this is heckling.

    If there is no other forum to voice these views, what choice is there but to heckle?

    I hope that the white house are not private grounds, especially as press briefings are given here to th nation. If censorship is possible to such a degree then I feel that the first amendment is all but destroyed.

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    Yeah, Freedom of Speech is a total joke in this country. I refuse to believe otherwise until every single politician or head of state in this country is interrupted and heckled and jeered in every public appearance they have. What is the point of having this so called freedom if any old shmuck can actually get through a speech coherently?

    I've already ordered 10 'Free Wang Wenyi' t-shirts.


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    What is the point
    Free tibet!
    of having
    NO OIL FOR BLOOD!
    this so called free
    Guantanimo must go
    dom if any old shmuck
    Bush stop him from killing!
    can actually get
    Stop drilling in Alaska!
    through a speech
    Fund the public schools system!
    coh
    2000 dead!
    coh
    You can't take my freedoms!
    coherently?
    I've already ordered 10 'Free Wang

    Not very PG-13.
    Last edited by BigTex; 04-22-2006 at 18:37.
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