MA father awarded $11 million in lawsuit over his military son's funeral

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I honestly am not sure how anyone but the ACLU could argue drowning out funeral after funeral with heckling is in any way protected by the first amendment, any more than "FIRE, HAW HAW!"

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I suppose systematically disrupting weddings so that they never get to the vows is fine under the first amendment, too.  Hey, no worries now if gay marriage passes!

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It's not that it's solemn; it's that it's a private event being crashed and ruined by these people.  What gives them the right to do that?

Seconded.

I also wonder how "free speech" can be banned from within 100 feet of any polling place, but not from a funeral.

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$6,000,000 of the verdict was strictly for invasion of privacy.  I don't see how that's even arguable against, but this place is special like that.

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So, $11 million should be rewarded to anyone who is made upset by a protest, and whose cause a jury deems sufficiently worthy of not being annoyed?

Yes, because all protests are scheduled as deliberate acts of malice at the same time and place as funerals; and because the natural reaction of the bereaved at the peak of their bereavement, to deliberate acts of malice, is "being annoyed."

Out of curiosity, is there anything you hold sacrosanct?  The environment?  Genuinely curious.

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No, not all protests - but protests that invade privacy - especially at funerals, where they're insulting the dead.

I think it's funny the right to abortion is an extension of the right to privacy, yet privacy here is somehow not important enough.

And I missed where Ebowed was authorized to speak for Alcon.

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It doesn't.  I just thought you weren't reading very carefully.