Don't expect court to care for liberty
05/25/05
The US Supreme Court ruled, on Monday, May 23rd, 2005, that to compel people to support its propaganda with which they disagree does not violate the First Amendment to the US Constitution, the one about everyone having the right to freedom of speech. Yes, the court acknowledge, no one may be coerced into funding some private party’s advertisements or related speech. But when the government or some part of it decides it will proselytize for something, it can make us all fund it...
http://www.freemarketnews.com/pview/5834/1624/html/index.php
from Free Market News Network, by Tibor R. Machan
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
The US Supreme Court ruled, on Monday, May 23rd, 2005, that to compel people to support its propaganda with which they disagree does not violate the First Amendment to the US Constitution, the one about everyone having the right to freedom of speech. Yes, the court acknowledge, no one may be coerced into funding some private party’s advertisements or related speech. But when the government or some part of it decides it will proselytize for something, it can make us all fund it...
http://www.freemarketnews.com/pview/5834/1624/html/index.php
from Free Market News Network, by Tibor R. Machan
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 26. Mai, 15:51
