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FarmerRick:
Please, when contacting ANY of our representatives(federal, state or local), be respectful and don't do anything that would put our cause or the NFOA in a poor light.  It can be easy to get carried away with emotion, and it is sometimes mis-understood what a person is trying to convey with the written as opposed to the spoken word.  It is also easier to use as evidence.
Some of these people(such as in the story to follow) can be "thin-skinned" and react quite defensively to any criticism or accusations leveled against them.

Just be careful!


http://www.omaha.com/article/20091201/NEWS01/712019987/1009

How free is ?abusive' speech?

By Aaron C. James
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU

LINCOLN ? The Nebraska Supreme Court will take up a free speech case this week involving a college student's angry e-mails to a professor running for political office.

The student, Darren Drahota, was charged with disturbing the peace and fined $250 in Lancaster County for sending e-mails in 2006 to his former political science professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, State Sen. Bill Avery of Lincoln. At the time, Avery was running for his seat in the Legislature.

The Nebraska Court of Appeals upheld the conviction in June, and a UCLA law professor appealed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in the case Wednesday.

More at the link

JimP:
So......

"the appeals court ruled that Drahota violated Avery's peace " ...... it is not the Public Peace that the Law is protecting, but a particular individual?  ...... Uhmmm......... I was thinking that the Police did not have a duty to protect an individual, just the Public............  I guess if you are the right indidvidual, the Law will protect your feeeewings..............

I don't condone what Drahota did, but I like what the court did a whole lot less.

A-FIXER:
NUTS..... now this is why obama and his weakkneed B-nosers want to control the internet and have the ability to shut it down.... well the web is public and if that dude wants not to receive the e-mails then let him get a filter that will allow him only to get spam and feel good ad's...

Glock 1:
Is the 1st Amendment to the Constitution still in effect or do I NOT have the Right to Freedom of Speech??  If I don't like something and a candidate has sausage between his ears I'm going to say something!

Now I don't mean going out and cursing this person but getting my point across to him/her in a straight forward manner is my right!

If the 'candidates' don't like the heat, they had better stay out of the kitchen and cry on their mama's shoulder!!!

huskergun:
 What this decision just did was to attempt to silence decent. Now rather than say what is on your mind you will have to make sure that the words you are saying will get a pass from the thought police.
 I will not be quite. And with all due respect to Rick what has talking nice  gotten any of us. Sometimes you have to rock the boat. When politicians refuse to listen to the average every day Joe then the average Joe needs to get louder until they listen.
 I'm not really talking about the firearms issues but rather the rest of the crap that is going on in this country.
 I hope they take this to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Just my thoughts.

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