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Quote Originally Posted by rwanttaja View Post
It's like when you're at dinner somewhere, and somebody at the next table keeps using the F-word. [SIZE=4][B]They have a right to.........
I have slept on my response to this thread. This comment floored me.... I recall a case in Michigan, IRRC, where a man was found not guilty after being arrested for assault (he beat, severely, a local low life who was verbally "challenged"..... he seemed only to know a few words, and the F bomb was every other word. This occurred on a river with lots of kids around, including the kids of the guy who was arrested.
So far, First Amendment cases have favored profanity users. That said, the Constitution governs only GOVERNMENT action. It doesn't protect one from getting poked on the nose from someone who objects to your language. There are separate laws governing assault, of course.

As Paul Harvey once put it, "Your rights end where my nose begins."

The only true cure is to bring back the Code Duello. As Heinlein said, "An armed society is a polite society..."

Ron Wanttaja