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Old 11-13-2009, 09:22 AM
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Originally Posted by d-ray657 View Post
This is the United States, and the supreme law of the land is the Constitution of the United States of America. The First Amendment to that Constitution guarantees free speech. Any law that tried to provide punishment for the content of news programming would not pass constitutional muster. If it did, it would be an invitation to tyrrany.
Sorry, can't see any correlation.

The way you explain it, it should be impossible to prosecute someone for yelling fire in a theater.
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