Clarence Thomas and ANYONE would be an odd pairing....he is such a....what's the nicest word I cant think of to describe him.......eccentric.
Anyway, thankfully a bit of common sense won out here. On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Court overturns ban on video game sales to kids > > Excerpt: > > The Supreme Court ruled Monday that it is unconstitutional to bar children > from buying or renting violent video games, saying government doesn't have > the authority to "restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed" > despite complaints that the popular and fast-changing technology allows the > young to simulate acts of brutality. > > On a 7-2 vote, the high court upheld a federal appeals court decision to > throw out California's ban on the sale or rental of violent video games to > minors. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Sacramento had ruled that > the law violated minors' rights under the First Amendment, and the high > court agreed. > Read more here: > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_supreme_court_violent_video_games > > > Wow. Seven to two. > > The two dissenters: Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer. That is an > unlikely duo. > > J > > - > > To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren > Court, it wasnt that radical. It didnt break free from the essential > constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, > at > least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, > that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says > what the states cant do to you. Says what the Federal government cant do > to you, but doesnt say what the Federal government or State government > must > do on your behalf, and that hasnt shifted and one of the, I think, > tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights > movement became so court focused I think there was a tendency to lose track > of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that > are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you > bring about redistributive change. - Barack O > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:339513 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
