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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: neolib who wrote (181257)2/6/2006 1:52:12 PM
From: Lazarus_Long   of 281500
 
I'd say Texas v. Johnson is closer.
bc.edu
And it's more recent (1989).

That a cartoon published in Denmark constitutes "fighting words" in Syria or Turkey is simply absurd. This more an attempt of religious groups there to force their standards on the Western press.

In a series of decisions, the Court has curtailed the fighting-words doctrine. Before the end of the decade, the U.S. Supreme Court gave First Amendment protection to a controversial speaker in Terminiello v. City of Chicago. Arthur Terminiello, an ex-Catholic priest, was charged with disorderly conduct after he gave a racist, anti-Semitic speech in a Chicago auditorium to the Christian Veterans of America.
firstamendmentcenter.org

The USSC has been busily whittling down that decision you cite.

The different results reached in the lower courts, including the examples mentioned above, are difficult to explain. O’Neil writes that “much confusion surrounds the constitutional boundaries in the quest for civility.” Generally, if an individual engages in any threatening conduct in addition to verbal assaults, a fighting-words charge is more likely to stick. Many courts will look to the totality of the circumstances to see if profane or insulting language was accompanied by any threatening behavior or conduct.

Are Western presses to be held to standards promulgated by any and all groups in the world? How can they operate then? I find anticonservative cartoons offensive. Shall all presses worldwide be prohibited from printing such because of this?
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