Wednesday 20 August 2014

Challenge to Liberals, Read the First Amendment


1. The democrat party recently announced that they are attempting to use a billboard outside of the office of Representative Jean Schmidt of Ohio to scold her for standing up to veteran and blowhard, Representative John Murtha. Lamar Advertising, who owns the billboard has refused to place the proposed ad. To begin, no one is guaranteed a right to be heard. We are guaranteed a right to speak. There is a big difference. Second, there is no violation of a right to free speech here. Lamar is not preventing democrats from voicing an opinion, rather they are refusing to serve as a conduit for their speech. Democrats can and will continue to spew their venom in numerous other ways. Lamar is not infringing upon a right to speech they are simply controlling their property and the use of that property, something they have a right to. 


2. Rumsfeld v. FAIR, on Tuesday the Supreme Court will hear this case which addresses the Solomon Amendment, which requires universities to allow military recruiting on campus as a requisite for federal funding. Thirty-Six law schools have banded together to challenge the amendment. One of their complaints? You guessed it, restriction of a free speech to express disapproval of the policy. However, the amendment does not prohibit students or faculty from speaking against military action, the military, military recruiting, or even from encouraging students not to join the armed forces. If anything the amendment secures free speech by allowing the opposite side of the issue onto campuses to present their position. But they don't want military recruiting, so they pull out the restriction of free speech bayonet.

Rather than actually reading the First Amendment and its guarantees, the left has attempted to create an all powerful First Amendment right to be free from opposition under the guise of free speech. Now, I will grant that many of their liberal counterparts in the judiciary have helped their cause through their continued attempt to extend the reach of the First Amendment, but they find no support for such a notion under the Constitution itself, or any form of reasonable or rational First Amendment jurisprudence. So I challenge my liberals friends, read the first amendment, even read the jurisprudence on the right to free speech, and think about whether the claims above have any merit what-so-ever.

Rather than actually reading the First Amendment and its guarantees, the left has attempted to create an all powerful First Amendment right to be free from opposition under the guise of free speech. Now, I will grant that many of their liberal counterparts in the judiciary have helped their cause through their continued attempt to extend the reach of the First Amendment, but they find no support for such a notion under the Constitution itself, or any form of reasonable or rational First Amendment jurisprudence. So I challenge my liberals friends, read the first amendment, even read the jurisprudence on the right to free speech, and think about whether the claims above have any merit what-so-ever.