[lbo-talk] Re: "United States vs. Extreme Associates"

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Thu May 26 11:23:22 PDT 2005


Justin wrote:


>Obscene speech, illegal in most jurisdictions, is not
>protected by the First Amendment, and may be banned....

Not so. It is *explicitly* (nothing can be more explicit than "no law") protected by the First Amendment. It is not protected by the Supreme Court which has never hesitated to "distinguish" away whatever part of the Constitution its masters choose to ignore.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."

Herakleitos of Ephesos



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