Links for Sunday 31 August

Filed Under (First Amendment) by webmaster on 31-08-2008

For some time now, I have been thinking about how our understandings of the First Amendment are likely to change in a digital age. Gradually, I have come to the conclusion that we face a transition of enormous irony.

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Violation of the First Amendment in the United Police States of

Filed Under (First Amendment) by webmaster on 31-08-2008

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/30/report-massive-warra.html.

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Fourth Amendment, we hardly knew thee

Filed Under (First Amendment) by webmaster on 31-08-2008

peaceful and legal protests. I don’t recall hearing about the Boulder police going this far last week, but it was still pretty bad. The Police: Forgetting about the Fourth Amendment so we can also forget about the First Amendment.

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Logical Fallacies in Viral Emails

Filed Under (First Amendment) by webmaster on 31-08-2008

For government property, no one can place representations of anything with religious significance because it violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. In other words, our government should not advocate one religion over

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Should churches mix God and politics? – First Amendment Center

Filed Under (First Amendment) by webmaster on 31-08-2008

Should churches mix God and politics? First Amendment Center, TN – 49 minutes ago Contrary to the freedom-from-religion crowd, the First Amendment doesn’t bar religion from politics. It protects the right of houses of worship to speak

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America’s State of the Union

Filed Under (First Amendment) by webmaster on 31-08-2008

The secular theorists of today believe that to govern America according to biblical standards, Our government is violating the First Amendment of the Constitution which states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of

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Constitutional Law: Is Pole Dancing a Form of Free Speech?

Filed Under (First Amendment) by webmaster on 31-08-2008

studio violated plaintiff’s First Amendment rights because defendants’ decision was based on the expressive content of the dance classes that plaintiff intended to teach and is thus a content-based restriction on plaintiff’s expressive

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The History of Breaking Up Protests Before They Can Happen, How

Filed Under (First Amendment) by webmaster on 31-08-2008

That’s why every time local citizens and demo organizers go to Federal court to beg for some shard of the First Amendment to cover a “permitted” march route near the convention sites, their attorneys end up hearing the Secret Service

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At the RNC: The FBI Agent, the Retired Colonel, and the Roomful of

Filed Under (First Amendment) by webmaster on 31-08-2008

the majority its intellectuals, activists, attorneys, youth, and educators up in arms? Excessive, illegal police brutality, clearly intended to scare the masses away from their first amendment-guaranteed right to freedom of speech.

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Part C #5

Filed Under (Free Speech) by webmaster on 31-08-2008

The Civil Rights Movement was movement to receive civil rights for all people regardless of race. In the United States before 1964 blacks and whites were separated by color, and didn’t get equal treatment. Many people would protest on

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