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Originally Posted by Skybird
You are wrong there, Friscobay. I am quite confident that if a stranger would suddenly stand in your living room and start to hold a political speech or a religious nuthead interrupts a cinema movie by stepping onto the stage and starting to engage people in a missionary speech or a fellow would raise in the restaurant walking from table to table trying to get people engaged in an argument over something, would make the owners of the place call the police or throw him out themselves. Same is true for the guy who starts to yell ideological paroles in the backyard after midnight and all windows become lit again, or a person storms a radio office and demands to be broadcasted, or some body demands the newspaper to print his essay for free although the newspapers refuses to print it.
You have to "own" the "place" and the "time" to practice free speech, if you do not own them, then your right of free speech is worth nothing. And we should be thankful for that. Regarding our private sphere, homes, houeses: its our places, and so its our rules. Somebody else is not free to say and do just anything within these just like he pleases.
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Why is it that you are interpreting our Bill of Rights into a literal meaning from which they were never meant to represent the day they were written over 200 years ago? You're describing incidents which would violate other laws like curfews, verbal threats, trespassing and disturbing the peace. They didn't write this amendment so someone could have the right to yell at the top of their lungs at someone else just 3 inches away from their ear 24 hours a day seven days a week. Nor did they put into the constitution that in order to live free someone must first breath to live , which involves breathing in and out by first inhaling and then exhaling, because these things were
implied. They also have to eat once in a while and drink water at least every three days in order to live, before they can live to exercise their freedoms.
You are taking the Bill of Rights out of its context, which is a document which guards the rights of man from the abuses of government. What you are talking about has nothing to do with this. The amendments were not written to tell someone how to treat others, as if its some kind of common courtesy pamphlet.