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**xanaxnewtrader** · 08-04-2011, 11:06 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011...see-bookstore/

But others find the outrage over “Disappoint-mints” to be curiously strong – suggesting that removing the products is a form of censorship.

“Let me make very clear, there is no candy exception to the First Amendment,” Glenn Reynolds, a constitutional law professor, told the newspaper.

“Free speech is free speech. If you make fun of the president in a mint, it is just as much free speech as it is if you make fun of the president in a political cartoon.”

The bookstore manager said the shop previously carried breath mints satirizing former President George W. Bush – but no one ever complained.

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xanaxnewtrader Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 408 Senior Member	Satirical Mints Poking Fun at President Obama Yanked From Tennessee Bookstore http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011...see-bookstore/ But others find the outrage over “Disappoint-mints” to be curiously strong – suggesting that removing the products is a form of censorship. “Let me make very clear, there is no candy exception to the First Amendment,” Glenn Reynolds, a constitutional law professor, told the newspaper. “Free speech is free speech. If you make fun of the president in a mint, it is just as much free speech as it is if you make fun of the president in a political cartoon.” The bookstore manager said the shop previously carried breath mints satirizing former President George W. Bush – but no one ever complained.
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