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Originally Posted by Gigs  We have a thing called the 1st amendment. It especially applies to political speech, even unpopular political speech.
As a liberal, you should be defending this. The ACLU defended the KKK's right to march and speak in public.
About the riot stuff, in 1919 the constitutional test was established as a "clear and present danger". In 1969, this test was replaced with "imminent lawless action".
Unless Obama is actually present at these McCain rallies, there is no way that there could be imminent lawless action. The test requires that "the speech likely to cause violation of the law more quickly than an officer of the law reasonably can be summoned."
So no, you can't silence people you disagree with. It's disappointing that you even want to. |
Sorry to disappoint you, but there was a guy arrested in Florida for making vague threats against Obama in some training class he was taking.
I don't care what kind of hatred that good Christian woman, Sarah Palin, spills. But when she remains silent after her words have incited her listeners to cry out "Kill him", I think that's wrong and if it's not unlawful, it should be. If you made an offhand threat about killing her in front of witnesses, you would be arrested, too.
It's disappointing to me that you would use the First Amendment to condone racially charged, violent hate speech and death threats against a presidential candidate while wrapping yourself in the American flag.