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Appeals Court Finds "Nuremberg Files" Site Unlawful
Greplaw writes "The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this evening that an anti-abortion website that featured "wanted" posters of various abortion doctors constituted a "true threat." The website, called The Nuremberg Files, is therefore not protected by the First Amendment and is illegal under a 1994 law prohibiting threats against abortion doctors. The full opinion of the court is available on Findlaw. This case marks one of the first times that a website has been ruled to constitute such a threat." Our previous story has the background on the case. The District Court found the website was an unlawful threat; a three-judge panel of the Appeals court found that it wasn't; and now the entire Appeals court has found, by a 6-5 vote, that it was indeed unlawful. The case could be appealed to the Supreme Court next. The accepted definition of a threat unprotected by the First Amendment is one which "on its face and in the circumstances in which it is made is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate and specific as to the person threatened, as to convey a gravity of purpose and imminent prospect of execution", and there is considerable dissent among the judges over whether a website can or cannot meet that standard.
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Hey, I pray for people's death all the time. A study should be made to see if this has an effect on those people's health.
(Not posting as an AC because I don't like to hide; but I recognize this should be a +0 post; do your worst, moderators)
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Oh, the poor oppressed murderers need our compassion, give me a break.
I actually, see nothing on that web site advocating taking the law into your own hands. It just says they should be tried like Goebles, which is spot on.
Morals can exist without the writings of thousands of years old dead men.
Wasn't Mose's(sp?) 11th Commandment:
Thou shall not SPAM!
hehe sorry.. had to..
such as the caution of electing to terminate a pregnancy when you are faced with the reality that you do not have the financial resources or maturity to responsibly raise a child.
You can't just walk into an abortion clinic nine months pregnant and get an abortion, by the way. As the Supreme Court dictated in Roe v. Wade, abortion in the first trimester is acceptable, abortion in the last trimester is unacceptable, and the second trimester is kind of a grey area. It gets more detailed, like when the health of the mother is at risk, but basically that sums it up.
It would be nice if, once in my life, I could debate this with someone who doesn't need to make references to various nazis or dumpsters full of body parts when presenting their case. (not that you are that kind of person pnatural, it's just a general complaint.)