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pipoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-11 05:46 AM
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46. Apparently they didn't think the performer was funny
Edited on Tue Apr-26-11 05:48 AM by pipoman
and maybe he wasn't, but that is far from being threatening. If the Phelps bunch going to a funeral to protest, a venue which the participants don't have the option of walking out, is protected speech (and it should be), then how can this example be anything else (assuming the same happened in the US)? Comedy is an artistic expression. Art is often edgy, emotional, and even offensive, I wouldn't want it any other way.

edit, actually in the US the woman may have been subject to arrest for battery when she threw the drink on the performer.
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