The "Freedom" Award
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[Found under 'Pornography, Obscenity and Sexually Oriented Businesses']
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I don't see how censorship and prosecutions for obsenity protect First Amendment right to free speech.
For the rest of their program, see here .
Suite of this quote:"We call on all levels of government to protect and promote that which is truly free speech while vigorously defending and enforcing laws that protect us from the proliferation of the pornography and sexually oriented business industries because they are proven to be toxic to community standards, lower property values and increase crime.
And how they want to have a small government:" While we believe in the responsibility of the individual and corporate entities to regulate themselves, we also believe that government plays a vital role in protecting all citizens, particularly our most vulnerable, women and children, from exploitation."
Although I'm rather fond of pictures of people not wearing all their clothes, I suspect the claim that the Founding Fathers meant to protect porn via the first amendment is just plain wrong.
However, someparts of their program seem very liberal:"..Compulsory government service is incompatible with individual liberty.
We oppose imposition of the draft, the registration law, compulsory military training or any other form of compulsory government service..."
"..We deplore and oppose vigorously legislation and executive action that deprive the people of their Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights under claims of necessity to "combat terrorism" or to "protect national security."
We oppose legislation and administrative action utilizing asset forfeiture laws which enable the confiscation of the private property of persons not involved in the crime. Forfeiture of assets can only be enforced after conviction of the property owner as a penalty for the crime. Such forfeitures must follow full due process of law under criminal prosecution standards.
[..] Banks should be repositories of treasure and fiduciaries for the people, not enforcers for the State. Any information regarding customer transactions the State obtains from banks must be subject to the traditional Fourth Amendment safeguards..."
"..We deplore and vigorously oppose legislation and executive action that deprive the people of their rights secured under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments under the guise of "combating terrorism" or "protecting national security.".."
"Let's fight for the First Amendment by denying others the First Amendment thereby missing the entire point of the First Amendment because we're idiots who are more inbred than King Carlos II of Spain!"
[Corrected the typo. I now understand Pip's confusion. No, Spaniards are not inbred. The Spanish are fine. I apologize. Thank you, JeanP, for providing the helpful link.]
We call on our local, state and federal governments to uphold our First Amendment right to free speech...
Then you said...
by vigorously enforcing all laws against obscenity.
Be careful, you can strip your gears going in reverse like that.
"the wingnut attitude towards government: big government is when the government interferes with my life, small government is when it interferes only with the lives of people I don't like."
Wingnuts are like Humpty Dumpty: when a wingnut uses a word, it means just what the wingnut chooses it to mean; neither more nor less!
Nothing like upholding our rights by taking them away. The Constitution Party is just dripping with irony.
The scary part is what they consider pornography. One person's art is another person's pornography. And after reading the Constitution Party's agenda, I'm guessing they'd consider classic paintings and statues like the Statue of David and Venus di Milo pornography.
This is the first time I facepalmed without taking my glasses off first. Usually, I take them off to make sure I don't damage them, since they're too expensive, but this is such a fail, I totally forgot about it.
[Found under 'Pornography, Obscenity and Sexually Oriented Businesses']
Oxymoron much?
uphold our First Amendment right to free speech by vigorously enforcing all laws against obscenity.
If this wasn't so sad, it would be fucking hilarious.
So by taking away other people's right to free speech, you are upholding the right to free speech?
These folks really don't understand how the constitution works, do they?
"We call on our local, state and federal governments to uphold our First Amendment right to free speech by vigorously enforcing all laws against obscenity."
...he typed away with one hand , while doing something else vigorously with the other, whilst viewing something else in another browser/media player window, purely for research of course...! >:D
That 'platform' of yours. Gonna have to be an extremely big one, to accommodate even it's few members with Buster Gonad-esque cases of terminal Blue Balls Syndrome, if you're that opposed to all forms of 'obscenity', certainly that propagated on the interwebz. [/"Viz" Comic]
The 1st Amendment. Your call.
The Constitution Party. As likely to get to the White House as Ralph Nader will.
Oh christ, Deep Search's photo . . . Flanders looks like he's planning which copies of the Bible to hide his secret porn collection in. "And then when they're all asleep, it'll be me time. Me, a sweet centerfold and no one to stop us."
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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