Please Note:
US Courts have repeatedly ruled that personal blogs are Constitutionally-protected expressions of free speech.
This is a personal blog.
It's actually not because of magic, it's because of The Law.
The watershed but not widely known SCOTUS case of Cohen v. California 403 US 15 (1971) set the foundation for numerous subsequent rulings reaffirming and strengthening the validity of the Cohen decision. In that case, a young Mr. Cohen appeared in a court wearing a jacket emblazoned with the words, "F*** The Draft" on the back of it. For doing this, Cohen was arrested and ultimately convicted of Disturbing the Peace, which several layers of courts in California upheld. Eventually, the SCOTUS weighed in, and wisely broadly affirmed the right of all of us to use "the F-word" in public. Justice John Marshall Harlan II in the decision reasoned that that Cohen’s display of profanity could not be classified as obscenity, because it was not “erotic.” He went on to famously state that "One man's vulgarity is another's lyric." He also warned that if Cohen's conviction stood, the “...government might soon seize upon the censorship of particular words as a convenient guise for banning the expression of unpopular views”, much as the GFA Bunch Of Dinosaurs and their toadies have repeatedly attempted but failed to do to me.
As I have pointed out previously, our Flow is absolutely not a soveriegn nation, regardless of how much our only temporary GFA Bunch Of Dinosaurs want it to be. Everything which they do is required to not be in violation of the US Constiution. This is the legal concept of Constitutional Supremacy, which states that no law or policy anywhere in the USA will be valid if it attempts to subvert or deny any of the rights guaranteed to all of us in our US Constitution. Because the SCOTUS has ruled that attempts to ban the non-threatening use of "the F-word" in public are unconstitutional, there is nothing the mostly impotent Bunch Of Dinosaurs can legally do to prevent us from exercising our Rights. There is a lot which we can do to correct any individuals who futiley attempt to deny us any of our Rights.
Nonetheless, in the spirit of genuine Community cohesion, on February 28, 2023, I covered or removed our displays. In my latest and final gesture of goodwill, I wrote to every Dinosaur informing them of this. I clearly told them that all we wanted was a safe dialogue aimed at resolving these controversial differences between FFLO's. I also clearly told them that if plans for that dialogue did not begin forming by April 15, our displays would go back up. Ofc, they supremely arrogantly ignored us, so I put our displays back up on April 16, 2023.
We keep openly stating that I'm not going anywhere until I am damned good and ready to go. The continuing unbridled arrogance of the GFA Bunch Of Dinosaurs has assured that our displays are not going anywhere, either. If your delicate sensibiities are somehow offended by our exercising our American Freedoms, I respectfully suggest that you take the matter up with those 100% responsible for our displays: The GFA B O D.
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