From: Alejandro Dubrovsky (s328940@student.uq.edu.au)
Date: Sun Mar 16 2003 - 12:54:54 MST
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 04:43, spike66 wrote:
> Michael Wiik wrote:
> > Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> >
> >> I fail to see any legal grounds for this defense. Conspiracy laws
> >> allow for convicting groups of people cooperating to commit a single crime, even if
> >> each person does only a minor piece of the whole.
> >
> > Then you learn how you have been horribly used to display (single
> > letters of) obscene and incendiary slogans... -Mike
>
> OK please educate me. In the US is it perfectly legal
> to carry signs with complete obscene and incendiary
> slogans; not only legal but specifically protected by
> constitutional law. One can even burn the president
> in effigy, but not specifically threaten her life. I
> assume it is that way in Australia, Canada, England
> and western Europe as well. True?
>
(sorry spike about the previous empty message, the send button is just
too big over here)
IANAL (so the rest of the message should carry no weight at all, which
is the way i like my emails to be taken) but in Australia at least you
are not allowed to publish material that would be considered an
incitement to crime. Libel laws are also extremely strict (so personal
comments are likely to get you in trouble, unless you are able to prove
them), and of course, nothing is protected by the constitution, since
there are no rights in the Australian constitution, aside to the right
to vote and private property. (i'm not posting this to the list since i
haven't been following the thread, so this might be completely
off-topic)
alejandro
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