...become a right to assault your neighbor?
I will give you the Phelps clan as an example. We have the right to free speech, freedom of religion, and freedom to assemble peacefully. Does showing up at a funeral, and screaming at the mourners that the deceased is going to hell constitute a peaceful assembly? What about the mourners? Are they enjoying a right to peaceful assembly, or is it being interfered with? What about the mourner's rights to exercise thier own freedom of religion? Would it be free speech if the Phelp's were standing accross the street with signs saying that war is wrong, but not interfering with the service? Do our lawmakers need to do a better job of defining when it is free speech, and when it is intentional assault / harrassment /stalking? At what point does the line need to be drawn?
When it interferes with other's rights to peaceful assembly, or worship? When it can be shown that the interference is intentional, and purposely designed to interfere?
2007-03-22
23:24:16
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