All Entries in the "1st Amendment" Category
No One Murdered Because Of This Image
from The Onion, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 | ISSUE 48•37 | WASHINGTON—Following the publication of the image above, in which the most cherished figures from multiple religious faiths were depicted engaging in a lascivious sex act of considerable depravity, no one was murdered, beaten, or had their lives threatened, sources reported Thursday. The image of the Hebrew prophet [...]
Military Vet Detained For Psych Evaluation Over Anti-Government Facebook Posts
August 21, 2012 7:48 AM RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A former Marine involuntarily detained for psychiatric evaluation for posting strident anti-government messages on Facebook has received an outpouring of support from people who say authorities are trampling on his First Amendment rights. Brandon J. Raub, 26, has been in custody since FBI and Secret Service agents [...]
Regarding SOPA, government says users “poisoned the well”
by Christopher White Apparently, the government thinks we’re all stupid. That’s the only conclusion we can come to after reading what Stephanie Moore, chief counsel for the House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, had to say about the online SOPA protests. Bloomberg reports that Moore believes the groundswell of anger against SOPA was a misinformation campaign perpetrated by a [...]
Exceptions to free speech in the United States – Thanks Supreme Court for destroying the First Amendment!
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any lawrespecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. Originally, the [...]
