FREE SPEECH DEFEATS VEGAN FASCISTS!

Congratulations to Robert Stevens, the author of Dogs of Velvet and Steel. Vindicated at last. Just like Boudreaux and Patrick...Right wins over non profit might and for all their millions, the vegan fascist brigade could not slip this fraud past our nation's most brilliant legal minds. VOID FOR VAGUENESS - PERIOD!!! Three cheers for the 1st Amendment! 

"The First Amendment protects against the government,"Justice  John Roberts said. "We would not uphold an unconstitutional statute merely because the government promised to use it responsibly."

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/04/20/court-ruling-is-about-free-speech-not-animal-cruelty/

Court Ruling Is About Free Speech, Not Animal Cruelty

Posted by Ilya Shapiro

As expected from the oral argument in U.S. v. Stevens last fall – when Justice Alito was alone in expressing some support for the government’s position – the Court on Tuesday upheld the First Amendment by declining to add a category of unprotected speech. This was not, after all, a case about the “human sacrifice channel” or Michael Vick’s greatest dog fights. Indeed, cruelty to animals should be and is punished everywhere in the country. Instead, at issue here was a broadly drawn “depiction of animal cruelty” statute that could have ensnared Spanish tourism brochures or hunting instructional videos. More fundamentally, the Court rightly rejected the government’s proposed weighing of the “value” of speech against its “social cost.” That’s simply not the way Americans view the First Amendment.
The case is also notable because a solid majority of the Court rejected the “speech balancing test” defended by Solicitor General Elena Kagan, often mentioned as being on the short list of candidates to succeed retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.  Chief Justice Roberts’ opinion, joined by all of the panel’s liberal justices, went so far as to call that argument by Kagan “startling and dangerous.”  That is the kind of legal reproach that tends to be revisited at confirmation hearings.
Ilya Shapiro • April 20, 2010 @ 12:25 pm
Filed under: Law and Civil Liberties
Tags: animal cruelty, elena kagan, First Amendment, Justice Alito, justice john paul stevens, speech, Stevens

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/lowgraphicsarticle/8637/

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/20/dog.fight.videos/index.html

http://www.ohmidog.com/2010/04/22/20825/

http://www.nativehuntblog.com/robert-j-stevens-portrait-of-a-good-friend-and-a-martyr/