Message #1519

[wbcoleman]

Nobody's saying that the president can't speak freely.

You're just saying "If you speak freely and say something the government doesn't like, then its OK if the government makes you pay for it." That will teach everyone in the country not to speak freely won't it. Exactly what you left-wing Stalinists want. Everyone afraid to speak freely.

Umm, you're confusing local government with federal government. This isn't a federal case because the First Amendment isn't even remotely involved in the local issuing of permits unless the business is a publication. Restaurants don't qualify as the Press. No single business president does, either.

There are consequences for everything everybody says. That's life.

The concept you are missing is called "incorporation".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Rights

The incorporation of the Bill of Rights (or incorporation for short) is the process by which American courts have applied portions of the U.S. Bill of Rights to the states. ...

Now you're claiming that a town is a state.
Wrong.
Try again.

I don't believe that you are an ignoramus, but you are doing your damndest to impersonate one.

You are arguing a counterfactual.  No, you're not arguing anything, you are asserting a counterfactual, and an incredibly foolish one.  This is not a conservative/liberal difference of opinion, and it's not a close case.  You are flat out wrong, totally, and I'd suggest that you contemplate why it is that Rahmbo and the other mayors backed off from their threats so quickly.  They knew that they didn't have a legal leg to stand on, even if you don't.