Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (89656)	12/7/2004 8:57:08 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793895

The Lincoln Memorial is a public square. The government may not regulate the content of free speech expressed by private citizens in the public square. The government can regulate the time, place, and manner that speeches are given, and they can prohibit violations of law, but Martin Luther King would have been free to endorse Nazism, Communism, even pedophilia, if he wanted to. The Supreme Court won't prohibit people from standing on the steps of the SCOTUS building holding up personal displays of religious beliefs. They won't prohibit people from setting up creches in front of the Fairfax County office building. But the Supreme Court itself can't set up a creche on the SCOTUS steps and Fairfax County can't put up a creche in front of the county office building. The focus is NOT on the content of the speech, it's on the actor, the person or organization delivering the speech.