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The right to have a private uninterrupted funeral (Read 3960 times)
deltadarlin
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Re: Free speech or hate speech?
Reply #25 - Oct 8th, 2010 at 7:47am
 
Keep in mind, Snyder is not suing over the Westboro's Church using free speech.  He is suing over the right to privacy.  They are two different issues.
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Re: Free speech or hate speech?
Reply #26 - Oct 8th, 2010 at 8:28am
 
deltadarlin wrote on Oct 8th, 2010 at 7:47am:
the right to privacy


That thread title may have altered the flow of conversation.



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Re: The right to have a private uninterrupted funeral
Reply #27 - Oct 12th, 2010 at 5:45pm
 
Unfortunately, I think the Supreme Court will find in favor of Westboro "church" based on free speech issues

UNLESS - it can be shown that Westboro "church" makes it a point to "stalk" the victims of their protests.  They admit that the read the obituaries specifically looking for funerals of fallen military so that they can hold their protest rallies against gays in the military anywhere they can (whether the dead soldier was gay or not makes no difference to them).  This is stalking.

If Westboro really wants to make their statement - why are they not sitting out front of the Pentagon with their signs, why not in front of military installations everywhere in this country.  Why just a soldier's funeral?  Why?  Because they get TV/Media coverage at a funeral, that' why.

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Re: The right to have a private uninterrupted funeral
Reply #28 - Oct 12th, 2010 at 7:19pm
 
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Why just a soldier's funeral?  Why?  Because they get TV/Media coverage at a funeral, that' why.


TV eyeball competition. It's similar to "If it bleeds, it leads."

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