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Originally Posted by PR_Glen
Ok, i'll keep the insults out of this one to make my point.
You have rights and liberties as do all of us. I have the right to go to murder trials, hang outside and yell at the victims families and call them fat losers and then tell them that their son/daughter/father/mother would have been alive if you loved them more... but I don't, not because the law tells me I can't, not because I would get my ass kicked but because I have a sense of decency that allows me to go through life without hurting others, especially the ones who are GRIEVING over a loved one. I don't require a law to be this way.
Free speech is a subjective idea anyway. I can't tell someone I'm going to kill them without getting charged. I can't say i'm going to do something to the government without getting arrested. There's already public decency laws in most states and provinces in place, so wouldn't be too difficult to draw something up that would protect things such as funerals.. would be the decent thing to do anyway.
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It doesn't matter what you or I think is right or wrong or proper etiquette. They are totally within their rights as citizens of the USA. To the point that the Supreme Court actually BACKED THEM UP just a few weeks back.
Public decency laws don't supersede the US Constitution.
Do things work differently in Canada with regards to this sort of thing?
We (Americans) don't have to like or agree with what they say, but they most certainly should be allowed to express themselves. If one of them ends up dead as a result, they'll just have more fuel for their fire.
The only way to get rid of them, is to ignore them. They want attention and we give it to them.