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CAPSULE COMMENTARY: “Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Liberty”

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“Yesterday, in United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group, the Supreme Court struck down a 1996 federal law that restricted sexually explicit adult channels’ broadcasting to late-night hours. Despite people’s concern for children’s exposure to the pornographic programming, the Court made the right decision by respecting private ownership, the First Amendment, free trade, technology, and parental authority. The Playboy Channel has a right to air its programs on channels that viewers voluntarily purchase from their cable company. If parents do not want their children to watch naked women on TV, they can request targeted blocking of questionable channels. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy stated, “The citizen is entitled to seek out or reject certain ideas or influences without government interference or control.Technology expands the capacity to choose; and it denies the potential of this revolution if we assume the government is best positioned to make these choices for us.” Protecting children is the responsibility of the parents, and the Supreme Court recognized and defended this naked truth.”

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Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. In 1987, Mr. Hornberger left the practice of law to become director of programs at the Foundation for Economic Education. He has advanced freedom and free markets on talk-radio stations all across the country as well as on Fox News’ Neil Cavuto and Greta van Susteren shows and he appeared as a regular commentator on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show Freedom Watch. View these interviews at LewRockwell.com and from Full Context. Send him email.