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To: ThomasMore
Free Speech does not include the right to incite violence

It doesn't? When the Continental Congress met to plan war, what was that?

Advocating rebellion is what they are doing. If no one goes along with it....it's just noise in a paper.

Revolutionary pamphlets all over the place saying the same thing every day. Mostly ignored.

Inciting Riot is what the Chicago 7 were tried for. Let me know how that turned out, and how many prosecutions for that have subsequently been pursued.

Speech is just speech. No prior restraint. Until someone does something because of it - and you can prove that - it's just...words.

19 posted on 12/24/2014 11:38:31 AM PST by Regulator
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To: Regulator

Exactly....The problem here is that its tax funded...imo


48 posted on 12/24/2014 12:37:35 PM PST by therapsida (t)
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To: Regulator

When the Continental Congress met to plan war, what was that?

It was part of the rebellion against a government that gave no free speech rights to its people.


54 posted on 12/29/2014 5:42:16 AM PST by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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