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my pilau pot and ground dat'l peppers are being shipped. Life is good.

This is from Raw Story, so the chances of this happening is nil, and most likely has to do with something exactly the opposite of reality...

GOD I hate Raw Story...

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Wall Street Journal
Their lawsuit claims that the governor violated the first and 14th amendment protections on free speech by removing the mural because he disagreed with its message. Maine Attorney General William Schneider, however, argues that the government has free speech rights akin to those of individuals, a doctrine in constitutional law known as "government speech." Mr. Schneider contends that just as former Gov. John Baldacci, a Democrat, demonstrated his labor sympathies by installing the mural, Mr. LePage is expressing himself by removing it.

The courts have clarified the government speech doctrine several times in the past 40 years. In 1972 the Supreme Court declared that the first amendment provides an exception to the government speech doctrine and that the government cannot censor speech because of its message or subject matter. Plaintiffs attorney Jeff Young cites this exception. "If the governor had said, 'I don't like this mural because it's all black and gray and I'd like to see pretty reds and greens in it,' he could probably do it," says Mr. Young. "But that's not what he said. The governor's decision to remove the mural was based on his disagreement with its content."

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my pilau pot and ground dat'l peppers are being shipped. Life is good.

I would think, on a government building, the government has the last word.

But that's just me.

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That sounds very ominous and border line Stalinesque.

Well, if you owned a house, and there was a mural on it, do you not think that you have the right to remove it?

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Former Gov. John Baldacci, a Democrat, demonstrated his labor sympathies by installing the mural,

See that's OK, but a repub governor who removes it for disagreeing with it is not OK. Does this seem odd to anyone but me?

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Actually that depends. Is the mural a historic landmark? Any hows you are comparing apples and oranges here. The government is not a private individual and the government does not own private property.

So the government should just accept whatever is on the building? The government is made up of people, groups, who make these decisions. It's not just one person with a scrub brush.

Make in the days of Rome, when Rulers changed, most of the busts around the city of the deposed leader were shattered. Marking the territory, if you will. The first Lady buying new china, for a mdern twist to it.

If the current tenent doesn't think the mural portrays the morays of the current populace, why shouldn't it be changed? It's public property. Private property is at the whim of the owner, or as per contractual agreement in the ownership of that property. (historic landmark status).

If I wish to fly the Rebel Flag on my non-HOA property, then I shall. It doesn't mean I can plaster it across public property.

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I doubt it - it was installed by the prior governor. I think the that the current governor is sending a clear anti-labor message just as the prior governor was sending a pro-labor message.

It's the governor's right - he just shouldn't be pretending that "looks at employees and employers equally, neutrally and on balance" when we all know that's a GoP joke.

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