ABC: Justice Breyer globalization may change, limit the 1st

Fri Sep 17, 2010 12:04 pm » by **Illuminated**

yes they really said it & yes thats really in your face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mc63DwTyk8

Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer said on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2010, that globalization may change the way the First Amendment applies in the United States.

September 16, 2010
Breyer -- appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America" to promote his book "Making Our Democracy Work" -- made the comments to anchor George Stephanopoulos.

Breyer pointed to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' opinion in a 1919 case testing the limits of First Amendment protection. Holmes argued that shouting "fire!" in a crowded theater would not be protected speech because people could be trampled in the rush to escape a burning theater.

"And what is the crowded theater today?" Breyer asked. "What is being trampled to death?"

On Tuesday morning, Breyer said any new interpretation of the First Amendment and the "crowded theater" benchmark will be decided over time through jurisprudence.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/7...

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/144641

Justice Stephen Breyer - Globalization Challenging the Constitution
http://kennysideshow.blogspot.com/201...

“Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of a higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarian regimes which horrify us follow of necessity. From the collectivist standpoint, intolerance and brutal suppression of dissent, the complete disregard of the life and happiness of the individual, are essential and unavoidable consequences of this basic premise; and the collectivist can admit this and at the same time claim that his system is superior to one in which the ‘selfish’ interests of the individual are allowed to obstruct the full realization of the ends the community pursues.” Austrian Economist Friedrich A. Hayek