Nice Quote...

[PassionatePantherrr]

The following was copied from a friend's blog... I'd like to look up the decision it was made in deference to.

"Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty."
-- Justice Louis Brandeis, Whitney v. California (1927)

[Pat McCotter]

Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927), was a United States Supreme Court decision upholding the conviction of an individual who had engaged in speech that raised a threat to society.

Anita Whitney, a member of a distinguished California family, was convicted under the state's 1919 Criminal Syndicalism Act for allegedly helping to establish the Communist Labor Party, a group the state charged was devoted to teaching the violent overthrow of government. Whitney claimed that it had not been her intention, nor that of other organizers, that the party become an instrument of violence.

[error]

The government fiercely protects its monopoly on violence.

[Crocuta]

That's kind of an ironic quote when considered with the case.

[Pat McCotter]

That's kind of an ironic quote when considered with the case.

"The Whitney case is most noted for Justice Louis D. Brandeis's concurrence, which many scholars have lauded as perhaps the greatest defense of freedom of speech ever written by a member of the high court. (He and Justice Holmes concurred in the result because of certain technical issues, but there is no question that the sentiments are a distinct dissent from the views of the prevailing majority.)"

[PassionatePantherrr]

Pat, thanks for the info/followup!

"The Whitney case is most noted for Justice Louis D. Brandeis's concurrence, which many scholars have lauded as perhaps the greatest defense of freedom of speech ever written by a member of the high court. (He and Justice Holmes concurred in the result because of certain technical issues, but there is no question that the sentiments are a distinct dissent from the views of the prevailing majority.)"