From Newsgroup: alt.tv.law-and-order
Worth a look. And maybe relevant today when mobs are rampaging.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_v._California#Brandeis%27s_concurrence Famous for Brandeis' concurrence.
Just one partial quote:
"Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties, and that, in its government, the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end, and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness, and courage to be the secret of liberty. They believed that freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth; that, without free speech and assembly, discussion would be futile; that, with them, discussion affords ordinarily adequate protection against the dissemination of noxious doctrine; that the greatest menace to freedom is an inert people; that public discussion is a political duty, and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government."
I heard about this watching the Youtube channel Uncivil Law.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGmglDvqKzQmiCoyN61YGjw
The video that covers this case.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGmglDvqKzQmiCoyN61YGjw
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