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COLGATE4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 09:15 AM
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151. For all that it may be emotionally satisfying to embrace
Edited on Mon Sep-13-10 09:15 AM by COLGATE4
or at least enjoy what the kid did, that doesn't change the bottom line that the attempted burning of the Quaran IS protected speech as determined by the US Supreme Court. His right to do that is the law of the land, and other feel-good attempts to justify its interruption just miss the point. The Constitution is designed precisely to protect the types of speech we DON'T like or want. All the verbal gymnastics about how burning this is somehow illegal because of hate crimes law or similar would be mildly interesting on a first term Law School exam, but don't make any difference here. Letting him burn his Quaran peaceably is the absolute essence of what our Democracy is about, and we should not forget that. What the kid did was an adolescent response to s situation which was wrong and which is quite probably a crime.
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