@#%$ Scalia

[mangxema]

I guess so, but then why come to a video game forum for intelligent debate?

It was Miller vs. California. First modern test for determining obscenity.

It wasn't meant as a specific insult to you personally, but someone who just wanders in would wonder why the hell you would be talking about video games involving rape.

 

[amadeus]

A conservative who likes the commerce clause? You realize in the extreme that could be used to justify a communist economic model?

I know, I was using it ironically.

 

[GoodGame]

It wasn't meant as a specific insult to you personally, but someone who just wanders in would wonder why the hell you would be talking about video games involving rape.

Not offended. Truth is stranger than fiction. The thread was something like 'Amazon removes videogame from shelves'. It was a Japanese made video game depicting rape.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

I'm pretty sure that f____ brilliant does not conjure up a sexual image....

They're just puritans I guess.

 

[CaptainF]

The FCC and the DEA both need to be dismantled...post haste.

 

[mangxema]

I'm pretty sure that f____ brilliant does not conjure up a sexual image....

Did you watch Battlestar? When the Cylons have sex, their spines glow red!

 

[Mark1031]

I know, I was using it ironically.

Sorry I'm not up on conservative humor.

 

[Gooblah]

Yes how do you go from:



to: the government shall own and regulate certain parts of the electromagnetic spectrum becasue if you freely buy a certain box then you can pick up speech on that box that is indiscriminantly beemed into your house due to the nature of electromagnetic radiation, and it is important that you not be offended by the content of that speech you might pick up so we will keep an eye on that for you.

The hypocrisy and bankruptcy of strict construction if just laughable.

Well, SCOTUS has reflected on free speech a lot, mostly for the clear and present danger precedent -if there is a clear and present danger involved to the nation or to citizens due to the usage of free speech, then that speech is not protected by the Constitution. First used for the Espionage Act during WWI (IIRC), and also why you can't shout 'Fire!" in a crowded theatre.

Anywho the government does technically own the electromagnetic spectrum's usage in the US due to laws passed by Congress. It (IMO) facilitates productivity, since an unregulated spectrum would be hell to deal with - imagine, hundreds of cases a year heard by dozens of courts and appealed many, many times about companies attempting to secure parts of the spectrum for themselves!

 

[amadeus]

Sorry I'm not up on conservative humor.

So get this, a Republican walks into a bar...

Spoiler :

and it's not Arlen Specter.

 

[JollyRoger]

So get this, a Republican walks into a bar...

Spoiler :

And staggers out complaining about the drunks.

 

[Formaldehyde]

I'm just surprised the vote was 5-4.

Like many people, I basically despised Scalia for being a far-right neocon ringer until I saw this 60 Minutes episode about him.


Link to video.

It turns out he is quite popular with the other Supremes, and one of his best friends is Ruth Ginsberg. And being a Constitutionalist, I find I agree with most of his major premises.

People come up to me and ask, Justice Scalia, when did you first become an originalist, as though it is some weird affliction. When did you start eating human flesh?

I'm not saying no progress. I'm saying you should progress democratically.

If you think there ought to be a right to abortion. No problem. The Constitution says nothing about it. Create it the way most rights are created in a democratic society. Pass a law.

 

[JollyRoger]

If you think there ought to be a right to self defense, pass a law - the Constitution says nothing about it. Don't write it into a judicial opinion and call yourself an originalist.

 

[Formaldehyde]

So I take it you think the Second Amendment refers to militias or the right to collect the upper appendages of bears?

 

[JollyRoger]

I think you can make a non-originalist argument that the right to self defense emanates from the penumbras of the 2nd Amendment.

 

[Miles Teg]

I think you can make a non-originalist argument that the right to self defense emanates from the penumbras of the 2nd Amendment.

Saved for prosperity.

 

[choxorn]

It gives you the right to own bare arms.

On the topic of the thread, this decision is %*^%^*%$^ ridiculous. Offhand profanity does not scar anyone who hears it for life.

 

[Ecofarm]

Are we seriously proposing that profane terminology on public airwaves should be protected under "free speech"??

I'm sure you'd appreciate it alot if I stood on the street outside your house and screamed profane obscenities at your children. When the cops came to arrest me, I could claim "free speech"??

Hey, officer, I have every right to scream obscenities at their house from the street... free speech!

Local school board? Overturn. Local city council? Overturn. Federal agency regulating free speech? It's cool.

So kids are allowed to use the f-word in school now?

 

[Rashiminos]

Are we seriously proposing that profane terminology on public airwaves should be protected under "free speech"???

It would be fun until the Order of Standards and Practices decides they want to meet and greet.

 

[mrt144]

Are we seriously proposing that profane terminology on public airwaves should be protected under "free speech"??

I'm sure you'd appreciate it alot if I stood on the street outside your house and screamed profane obscenities at your children. When the cops came to arrest me, I could claim "free speech"??

Hey, officer, I have every right to scream obscenities at their house from the street... free speech!




So kids are allowed to use the f-word in school now?

Do you know how anything works in our government, at all?

 

[JollyRoger]

So kids are allowed to use the f-word in school now?

Fleetingly. Watch a high jump pit at a junior high track meet. 90% of the misses will result in an f-bomb or other strong language and none of the student athletes will face consequences for it.