maybe. I feel there is a right to be left the hell alone. But yeah, privacy may not be the best word.
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:42 PM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, as Denny mentioned. The rights enumerated in the constitution are not > our only rights, just the ones they wrote down. > > I just think "privacy" is too loose a word, and we would need to have an > amendment clarifying what it means. > > Shit I think we need a new constitutional convention. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dana [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 2:14 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: _Speaking_of_the_Supreme_Court:_Marine's_father_ord_ere > d_to_pay_court_costs_to_Westboro_Baptist_Churc > > > true but it's a pretty established constitutional extrapolation. > Sometimes judicial activism is needed. I personally think that it does > not arise in the constitution because it's not an 18-century concept. > The United States was so sparsely populated then that it really wasn't > hard to be left the hell alone. This is less so now. But isn't that > really what underlies all of the other rights? The right to be left > the hell alone? > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:52 AM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Also the word privacy is never mentioned in the constitution, it's an >> invention of judicial activism. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: G Money [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:31 AM >> To: cf-community >> Subject: Re: _Speaking_of_the_Supreme_Court:_Marine's_father_ord_ere >> d_to_pay_court_costs_to_Westboro_Baptist_Churc >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Eric Roberts < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> The family's >>> right to privacy and their freedom of (and from) the religious beliefs of >>> others trumps all of that. >> >> >> Their right to privacy is protected, in so far as the protesters are not >> allowed on the private property of the cemetery, but must remain off the >> property to carry their stupid signs. >> >> If these people were carrying signs that said "God bless your son for his >> service", you wouldn't be up in arms about it. My point is that it's not >> really their privacy that you are worried about, it's the type of speech. >> >> America and her freedoms are not easy. They were not obtained easily, and >> they are not defended easily. Our military protects our freedoms from > armed >> assailants domestic and foreign, but we citizens are the last great > defense >> of what our country really stands for......freedom. These assholes test us >> as citizens of a free country. Is our devotion to freedom of speech just >> rhetoric, or are we capable of passing the test and suffering those who >> would test the limits of our freedoms? >> >> Don't fail the test. >> >> -- >> Everybody knows the war is over >> Everybody knows the good guys lost >> >> >> >> >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:314468 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
