goldcatt
Catch me if you can!
- Aug 4, 2009
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Absolutely right, care.
Not only that, but depending on the breadth of the ruling it could easily be expanded to make the press liable for reporting ANY intentional event that causes harm to a person and that a family member could see and experience distress from. How would you like there to be a serial murderer, child snatcher or serial rapist in your area and the press can't report on it because they'll be sued? Wouldn't you want to know, and want them to be able to do their jobs?
It could conceivably go even broader than that...but I don't even want to think about it.
Everyone here who knows me knows how much I hate the Westboro Freaks, and those who support them.
BUT, what some of the cons on here don't understand is EXACTLY what goldcatt just laid out. What other freedoms (even if we hate those voices saying//doing it) will be taken away next?
Freedom from excessive taxation without proper representation.
Taxes are more important than the right to speak your mind? Really?
I suppose we all need our own principles, but I'm having a hard time understanding how money is more valuable than speech.