Australian authorities have released the goatse guy, who was in their custody after an incident involving a passing police car, a jelly doughnut, and a koala bear.
Fuck the draft
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MacAndrew
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Now that I have your attention...
Free speech cheerleaders that Americans are, I'm pretty sure this bare argument would get skewered in court, at least on public indecency grounds. Certainly you have the right to give a cop the finger, though I really really recommend you don't.
There was a classic SC case (Cohen) during the Vietnam War a man was observed in a couthouse corridor wearing a jacket emblazoned "Fuck the draft" on the back. He went into a courtroom, first taking the jacket off, and was arrested.
His conviction was overturned because the Court felt he had not crossed the line between his right of expression and the court's need for decorum (you couldn't break into song during a trial, for example, unless maybe you were a defendant pleading insanity:).
So there is a time, manner, place for different kinds of expression, even uncivil ones. I'm just not picturing the place for expressive mooning... besides a nude beach. I remember a football coach at my high school getting canned for mooning a female math teacher, but that was private school -- no First Amendment.
Re:Fuck the draft
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Caid+Raspa
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· Score: 3, Interesting
(you couldn't break into song during a trial, for example, unless maybe you were a defendant pleading insanity:)
Maybe this is a bit offtopic, but I have heard of a few cases of singing defendants (surprisingly, in a 'fuck the draft' case). Here in Finland inciting someone to break the law is a crime. We also have obligatory military service. If you have a religious/political/ethical non-violent views, you are exempted and allowed to serve 'civil service'. (Which takes 13 months, the most common period of armed service is 6 months)
In the old days, your non-violent views were evaluated by a commitee (A priest, an army officer and a 'layman'), often asking questions like 'What would you do if the Martians invade Earth?'. If they decided your case was not strong enough, you were sent to the army. Refusing to serve in army after a negative committee decision was crime.
The committee system was revoked by ridiculing the law. People made petitions asking those, who got a negative decision, to refuse armed service. After this, they reported themselves to the police. Lists collecting signatures were circulated.
Several thousand people made it to the court. A few poets and singers presented their cases to the court as songs and poems. People set up a contest of 'who gets the longest prison sentence'.
Finally, the president got fed up, and made a general amnesty of all the people involved. The committee system was revoked, and now your concience is tested by 'mark this box if religious, that if ethical'
Well, us here in the States
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hitzroth
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· Score: 4, Funny
have the right to bear arms...
-- In mathematics, one does not understand things, one merely gets used to them. --VonNeumann
What a Beowulf cluster of these guys would look like?
-- "Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
Re:Strange term
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catslaugh
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· Score: 4, Informative
Hitting the Google glossary
yielded a New Zild Glossary which defines a "larrikin" as an "unruly person", a term which originated in 19th century Melbourne.
I remember a while ago here in the states (might have been on a tv show, i can't keep it straight, ripped from the headlines and what not). Some flasher was arrested for indecent exposure, but he argued that since he had some political message writen on his piece that he was protected by the first amendment. I think he lost, still interesting though.
-- "Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Re:Strange term
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os2fan
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· Score: 3, Informative
These are australian terms, hon.
While Larrikin is usually glossed as an unruly person, over here it carries aslo the sort of connetations of the innocent mischief young adults get up to. Something like a "hood", I suppose. A lot of our words do not translate to american, since ours carry shades of meaning not present in the American.
Moon (v intrans) means to show the exposed backside, often in a reverse bow. It sort of looks like the moon, if the pants are dropped to mid thigh. Don't forget, we see the moon right-way up, not upside down as you do in the Northern hemisphere.
"larrikin moon" then translates to a moon as a harmless mischief. Something about three orders up to giving what the americans use the "finger".
-- OS/2 - because choice is a terrible thing to waste.
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So... now it's OK to say yes to crack!? When did THIS happen?!
I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it!
"Magistrate Sheryl Cornack adjourned the case until December 13 to allow time for the federal and state attorneys-general to consider a response."
I think the delay might be to let Sheryl do some squats before showing her response.
I really hate Dan Patrick.
Australian authorities have released the goatse guy, who was in their custody after an incident involving a passing police car, a jelly doughnut, and a koala bear.
Now that I have your attention...
:).
... besides a nude beach. I remember a football coach at my high school getting canned for mooning a female math teacher, but that was private school -- no First Amendment.
Free speech cheerleaders that Americans are, I'm pretty sure this bare argument would get skewered in court, at least on public indecency grounds. Certainly you have the right to give a cop the finger, though I really really recommend you don't.
There was a classic SC case ( Cohen ) during the Vietnam War a man was observed in a couthouse corridor wearing a jacket emblazoned "Fuck the draft" on the back. He went into a courtroom, first taking the jacket off, and was arrested.
His conviction was overturned because the Court felt he had not crossed the line between his right of expression and the court's need for decorum (you couldn't break into song during a trial, for example, unless maybe you were a defendant pleading insanity
So there is a time, manner, place for different kinds of expression, even uncivil ones. I'm just not picturing the place for expressive mooning
have the right to bear arms...
In mathematics, one does not understand things, one merely gets used to them.
--VonNeumann
What a Beowulf cluster of these guys would look like?
"Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
Hitting the Google glossary yielded a New Zild Glossary which defines a "larrikin" as an "unruly person", a term which originated in 19th century Melbourne.
"Before enlightenment: sharpen claws, catch mice. After enlightenment: sharpen claws, catch mice."
"Magistrate Sheryl Cornack adjourned the case until December 13 to allow time for the federal and state attorneys-general to consider a response."
Does this mean the attorneys-general are preparing to present their rebuttal?
I remember a while ago here in the states (might have been on a tv show, i can't keep it straight, ripped from the headlines and what not). Some flasher was arrested for indecent exposure, but he argued that since he had some political message writen on his piece that he was protected by the first amendment. I think he lost, still interesting though.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
While Larrikin is usually glossed as an unruly person, over here it carries aslo the sort of connetations of the innocent mischief young adults get up to. Something like a "hood", I suppose. A lot of our words do not translate to american, since ours carry shades of meaning not present in the American.
Moon (v intrans) means to show the exposed backside, often in a reverse bow. It sort of looks like the moon, if the pants are dropped to mid thigh. Don't forget, we see the moon right-way up, not upside down as you do in the Northern hemisphere.
"larrikin moon" then translates to a moon as a harmless mischief. Something about three orders up to giving what the americans use the "finger".
OS/2 - because choice is a terrible thing to waste.