[LAW-LIB:57743] Re: Birthday Cakes For Mini-Nazis ?

From: Leslie Germaine (lgermaine43@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Jan 10 2009 - 15:52:15 PST

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    Mr. Huttner, *et al*

    David Harsanyi <http://www.denverpost.com/harsanyi/ci_11410945> of the
    Denver Post comments on the subject of speech and extremism:

    *In our nation, even twisted extremists are welcome to express their
    > opinions.*
    >
    > *Take, for instance, the young Muslim woman in Florida who used her
    > constitutional right to tell Jews to "go back to the oven!" last week. Or
    > the more befuddled protester in New York who brandished a sign that read, "Death
    > to all Juice."<http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/orange_jihad/>(And I thought we Jews ran the country. Clearly, someone is sleeping on the
    > job.)*
    >
    > *These rare but revolting displays of hate do offer the "Juice" a valuable
    > reminder that a secure Jewish state in Israel is a historic imperative.*
    > *Nevertheless, it is distressing to hear the large number of supposedly
    > peace-loving critics of Israel in essence defend Hamas, one of the most
    > virulently un-intellectual, illiberal, bellicose, misogynistic, hateful and
    > violent brands of religious fanaticism on Earth.*
    > 

    -- 
Leslie Germaine
Solo Practitioner
Practicing Worldwide

    On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Ronald Huttner <rshutt@netspace.net.au>wrote:

    > I've just been reading the story about the charming New Jersey couple and
> the shop that refused to make a birthday cake for their (no doubt equally
> charming) 3-year-old son, little Adolf Hitler Campbell. Are there no laws in
> the USA designed to protect minors from having their lives ruined forever by
> their neo-nazi, moronic and selfish parents ? Does the First Amendment
> guarantee of free speech really mean that any parent is completely free to
> give his/her child whatever name he/she chooses  -  no matter how utterly
> appalling it may be or how likely the child will suffer grievously as a
> result ? Surely in a rational society there must be limits to the right to
> free speech. Here in Australia we have no equivalent to the First Amendment
> and my understanding is that the various State and Territory Registrars Of
> Births, Deaths And Marriages have a statutory discretion to refuse to
> register an outrageous or offensive name. I'd be really interested to hear
> what USA List-Members think of this case.
>
>
> Ron Huttner LL.B (Hons)
> (Retired) Barrister, Solicitor, Law Lecturer and Legal Researcher
> Melbourne
> Victoria
> Australia
>

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