Freedom to Opine

For John, BLUF:  Once we start limiting speech there is no limit to the limiting.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has said, en banc, there is no Copyright violation excuse for pulling Innocence of Muslims from the Internet:

"The appeal teaches a simple lesson—a weak copyright claim cannot justify censorship in the guise of authorship."

Another victory for the First Amendment.♠

As an aside to this story, the Administration told us and held to the position that this video trailer was the cause of the Benghazi attack.  However, in USA Today Mr Oren Dorell reports:

One day after the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, the Defense Intelligence Agency concluded the assault had been planned 10 days earlier by an al-Qaeda affiliate, according to documents released Monday by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  At a comment on a different InstaPundit post "LeftCoastMole" said, "Yep.  The Southern [R]eps (Democrats to a man, I'm pretty sure) were quite insistent on making criticism of their peculiar institution a crime."  Free speech is the great oxidizer, breaking things down.