http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWoqlrj_wN4
In this report, John Stossel shows how the City of Los Angeles has taken it upon themselves to censor free speech unless the specifically aprove of it, even if it is on your own private property. In this example, a neighbor becomes offended by a mural harmless enough for a kindergarted classroom uses power of government to infringe upon his neighbor's civil liberties. The man's name is Olen Thornton, and he sounds like an ass. I'm glad my neighbors aren't loony as a Canadian dollar, like him.
But my question is, how can the city of Los Angeles so blatantly violate the US Constitution in this manor? It's so egregious, it ought to be considered criminal!
What do you all think?
Quote from: Ex_Nihil0 on March 04, 2010, 04:49:09 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWoqlrj_wN4
But my question is, how can the city of Los Angeles so blatantly violate the US Constitution in this manor? It's so egregious, it ought to be considered criminal!
Well, we let them!
Seriously, you need a goverment aproval for painting your own property? That's almost as bad as switzerland.
Or as the joke went that I used to hear as a child:
"An american and a swiss man make a bet on who can build a skyscraper the fastest. After two year the american sends a telligram to switzerland saying "fourteen more days and we're done" to which the swiss man sends back "Fourteen more forms and we're gonna start"."
What I want to know is why don't groups like the ACLU go defend people like this anymore? I thought they stood for Civil Liberties. These days, they seem portrayed mostly as protectors of racial and sexual minorities. But what of the political minorities and their rights? Who protects the individual from democracy?
Quote from: Ex_Nihil0 on March 06, 2010, 11:53:18 PM
What I want to know is why don't groups like the ACLU go defend people like this anymore? I thought they stood for Civil Liberties. These days, they seem portrayed mostly as protectors of racial and sexual minorities. But what of the political minorities and their rights? Who protects the individual from democracy?
The second amendment?
Speaking of which, I'm going to go buy an American flag and fly it upside-down, a sign of my current impression of the state of liberty and freedom in America. Here's to hoping that the police in my state (Texas) don't see it as obscene and have me arrested. =P
Hey it's Texas, you can do with the Union flag what you want.. just as long as you keep your filthy yankee hands of the confederate one.
Quote from: Gumba Masta on March 07, 2010, 05:37:07 AM
Hey it's Texas, you can do with the Union flag what you want.. just as long as you keep your filthy yankee hands of the confederate one.
+1 for you. To the poster above me, I've considered doing the same thing myself, but I live in ultra hippyville so I'm not exactly it would be reacted to. I'm sure there will be atleast one person not too stoned to say I offended someone.
Quote from: FSBlueApocalypse on March 07, 2010, 08:44:22 AM
+1 for you. To the poster above me, I've considered doing the same thing myself, but I live in ultra hippyville so I'm not exactly it would be reacted to. I'm sure there will be atleast one person not too stoned to say I offended someone.
Maybe I'll fly it upside down next to the gadsden flag. That might help give it the proper context.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Gadsden_flag.svg/800px-Gadsden_flag.svg.png)