We’re at war: Turn off Hezbollah TV
The feds arrested Javed Iqbal of New York for offering access to a Hezbollah-run TV channel called al-Manar. Said the Washington Post news story:
Maybe not. What little law I know is that the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld the conviction of a commie for violating the Sedition Act of 1918, an amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917.
Writing for a unanimous court, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, “The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.”
Robert Houghwout Jackson, a justice during the next World War who ran the Nuremberg trials, wrote the Barnette decision, which said a school could not compel its students to pledge their allegiance to the flag. The decision was unanimous and handed over on Flag Day 1943, in the middle of World War II.
Nonetheless, Justice Jackson dissented in the Terminiello case in which the city of Chicago tried to fine a neo-Nazi for his anti-Semitic exhortations which nearly caused a riot. Justice Jackson wrote:
But we are at war and we do not need to give Hezbollah access to every household and prison cell in America. In fact, we need not give Hezbollah access to even one.
Linked to Planck's Constant and Stop the ACLU.
The U.S. Treasury Department in March designated al-Manar a “global terrorist entity” and a media arm of the Hezbollah terrorist network. The designation froze al-Manar's assets in the United States and prohibited any transactions between Americans and al-Manar.Naturally, reporter Walter Pincus got a comment from Donna Lieberman of the American Civil Liberties Union who said she is “deeply troubled” and this “raises serious First Amendment concerns” and surely, there is a First Amendment exemption to this law.
Maybe not. What little law I know is that the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld the conviction of a commie for violating the Sedition Act of 1918, an amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917.
Writing for a unanimous court, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, “The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.”
Robert Houghwout Jackson, a justice during the next World War who ran the Nuremberg trials, wrote the Barnette decision, which said a school could not compel its students to pledge their allegiance to the flag. The decision was unanimous and handed over on Flag Day 1943, in the middle of World War II.
Nonetheless, Justice Jackson dissented in the Terminiello case in which the city of Chicago tried to fine a neo-Nazi for his anti-Semitic exhortations which nearly caused a riot. Justice Jackson wrote:
“This Court has gone far toward accepting the doctrine that civil liberty means the removal of all restraints from these crowds and that all local attempts to maintain order are impairments of the liberty of the citizen. The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.”I am of the don’t poop where you eat theory of life. The First Amendment keeps my family fed.
But we are at war and we do not need to give Hezbollah access to every household and prison cell in America. In fact, we need not give Hezbollah access to even one.
Linked to Planck's Constant and Stop the ACLU.
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