{"id":6258,"date":"2015-01-13T00:45:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T16:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6258"},"modified":"2015-01-13T00:45:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T16:45:36","slug":"human-rights-rewritten-to-jail-celdran-inquirer-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/13\/human-rights-rewritten-to-jail-celdran-inquirer-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Human rights rewritten to jail Celdran &#124; Inquirer Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The appellate decision clumsily sidestepped this fatal defect by discarding Reyes and diluting \u201cnotoriously offensive\u201d into \u201ccauses someone to feel resentful, upset or annoyed\u201d in the ordinary sense. It astonishingly added, \u201cwhether he is a member of the particular religion concerned or not; whether he is present or absent thereat.\u201d Not only does this contradict freshman criminal law classes, it rewrites free speech: The question of whether an idea is protected now depends on whether it upsets the audience. This rewrite destroys free speech because everything down to \u201cThe Earth is round\u201d is potentially upsetting. Constitutional law prohibits the \u201checkler\u2019s veto,\u201d where an audience member claims to be provoked into a violent response, thus censoring the speaker when authorities ask him to stop to restore order.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/opinion.inquirer.net\/81643\/human-rights-rewritten-to-jail-celdran#ixzz3OZKbxsWG\">Human rights rewritten to jail Celdran | Inquirer Opinion<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appellate decision clumsily sidestepped this fatal defect by discarding Reyes and diluting \u201cnotoriously offensive\u201d into \u201ccauses someone to feel resentful, upset or annoyed\u201d in the ordinary sense. It astonishingly added, \u201cwhether he is a member of the particular religion concerned or not; whether he is present or absent thereat.\u201d Not only does this contradict &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/13\/human-rights-rewritten-to-jail-celdran-inquirer-opinion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Human rights rewritten to jail Celdran &#124; Inquirer Opinion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,65,66,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol","category-philippines","category-politics","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}