Have you read stranger in a strange land? If not please do. Incredible book if you can grok it.
They have public and private spheres in life, and the individual decides which sphere he is in in most cases. Interesting concept. Would be difficult to implement. Man Heinlein was an incredible mind. What I would give to sit and puff one with him. -----Original Message----- From: Eric Roberts [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 2:49 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 >From my reading, it's no so much an enumerated right, but one that is inferred by the enumerated rights and backed up by several SCOTUS decisions. One article stated that Justice Louis Brandeis cited the 14th Amendment as an example of this. They also used the phrase the right to be left the hell alone...heheheh Eric -----Original Message----- From: Dana [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 1:45 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 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:314503 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
