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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: haqihana who wrote (134848)4/2/2001 8:22:14 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
There are plenty of verbal crimes. You are simply ignorant of them. You cannot say "anything you like"- there are statutes on the books, upheld by the supreme court, that will prevent you from doing that.

'Apart from punishing profane or obscene word which are spoken in circumstances which create a threat of violence, the state may also have a legitimate
interest in stopping one person from 'inflict[ing] injury' [Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U.S., at 572 ] on others by verbally assaulting them with language
which is grossly offensive because of its profane or obscene character. The fact [408 U.S. 901 , 906] that a person may constitutionally indulge his taste for
obscenities in private does not mean that he is free to intrude them upon the attentions of others.' 419 F.2d, at 646.
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