Government official trying to interfere with the first amendment? Someone call the baked Alaska thread!
Government official trying to interfere with the first amendment? Someone call the baked Alaska thread!
Supreme Court has ruled that a community can dictate what is "obscene". It can be a town or city, etc. If that community has said that the word f'ck is extreme, in their view, they can legislate against it and make it a misdemeanor to say the word or display the word.
I'm sure there are plenty communities in the US where it's illegal to say or display the word f'ck.
You can have your free speech, just pick another word.
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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-- Capt. Copeland
#boycottchina
If fuck the draft is good to go so is this.
While we live in a small town right outside Houston, in Fort Bend county as a matter of fact, we still consider ourselves the "Houston area" because Houston is so big.
Where I grew up, in Galveston, that wasn't really considered "Houston area" because it is so much farther away. But it was still an adjacent county. The county was just more populated as well.
Hell, the Johnson Space Center isn't even in Houston. it's actually pretty damn far away.
“Nostalgia was like a disease, one that crept in and stole the colour from the world and the time you lived in. Made for bitter people. Dangerous people, when they wanted back what never was.” -- Steven Erikson, The Crippled God
I need that on a shirt or coffee mug
Oh, interesting thing: https://www.click2houston.com/news/-...rch-for-driver
specifically this part: KPRC 2 legal analyst Brian Wice said this was a free speech issue and referred to the 1971 case of Cohen v. California. According to the case, the Supreme Court "overturned a man's conviction for the crime of disturbing the peace for wearing a jacket in the public corridors of a courthouse that displayed the phrase, 'F*** the draft.'"
So profanity by itself isnt an issue.
I also personally dont thing telling people Fuck You in publlic violates and the language by its very utterance tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace part of disorderly conduct, because MOST people dont actually get violent over it
Well disorderly conduct covers both improper behavior and/or coarse language. Also this can be seen as an eye sore for a neighborhood.
Honestly 1st Amendment doesn't completely protect you from saying anything you want. The article states they've received multiple complaints on the vehicle.
I honestly think it's extremely distasteful. If I was walking past this with my kids I'd feel compelled to at least black out the lettering on it. I don't even condone most sensorship, but we don't live in Idiocracy. Chew Big Red or Fuck you isn't on billboards because the language itself is uncivilized.
They person made their point, made national news papers, now it's time to be a human and take it down.
Oh how people change so quick depending on the team.
Free speech is free speech. Sheriff dun goofed.