Basically, don’t say anything that will make the crazy people go off..?
But, I guess Piss Christ and Mein Kampf, do “pass the test.”
She’s a moron.
State Houses and other government buildings will be left in tact for obvious reasons.
PS, the violence is only relegated to high concentration of Islamic rule in FOREIGN lands, not in a domestic movie theater, this chick is a major why the middle-east is exploding, COIN pimp.
Very soon it will be insulting Islam is inciting riots so is not covered by the 1st Amendment. Anyone found to be insulting Islam or Muhammad will be arrested on charges of inciting a riot.
Truly disgusting. Free speech is not defined as speech that doesn’t anger people. It’s not a crime to exit a theater that you think is on fire. It is a crime to kill people. People are responsible for not committing their own crimes.
I thought this woman might just be a wimp or a coward. But, no, she’s some kind of Muslim sympathizer. She lives in Afghanistan. I don’t know if she’s an actual Muslim, but it’s clear whose side she’ll take in any conflict.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Chayes
She later served in the Peace Corps in Morocco, returning to Harvard to earn a master’s degree in history and Middle Eastern studies, specializing in the medieval Islamic period. She has lived in Kandahar, Afghanistan since 2002, and can speak the Pashto language.
She has lived in Kandahar, Afghanistan since 2002. Having learned to speak the Pashto language, she has helped rebuild homes, set up a dairy cooperative.
Dear Sarah Chayes,
Let me explain to you the difference between a crowded theater and a YouTube film.
1. Yelling “fire” in a crowded theater is not an issue of insulting anyone or their beliefs. It is an issue of making someone fear for their immediate safety when there is no danger.
2. People in theaters react to the cry of “fire” with an immediate adrenalin rush and immediate action to remove themselves from danger.
3. Islamic terrorists are not in any danger, real or imagined, from a YouTube movie.
4. The actions that Islamic terrorists take after watching a YouTube they don’t like are deliberate and planned, designed to hurt others. They do not remotely resemble a flight response from danger.
Claiming equivalence would be like having someone watch a movie where someone yells fire in a theater, then have the person go home, decide they didn’t like it, then plot for a few weeks, then come back and set the theater on fire and start a stampede.
What this woman has written pisses me off.
Can I shoot her and get away with it?
Wouldn’t it be her fault? I’m a rabid protector of the Constitution and I’m tired of being lectured about the limits thereof - especially by media types who work in free speech.
So, let me get this straight. A video clip, posted to YouTube in July is responsible for the murder of four people who were killed on 9/11/11? What? these muzzies took more than a month and a half to become enraged and then engage in spontaneous riots, which led to these people's deaths?
Sure, I'll buy that for a dollar!!!/s
Where is the Rashid Khalili tape, “LA Times”?
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All of us should take heart at the savaging Chayes is taking in the comments to her article. (Of course, it is the LA Times, which of all the MSM print-outlets seems to be the most given to “random acts of journalism”, so maybe the readership is actually further right than one might guess and not representative of the general populace in its distribution area.)
“...falsely shouting fire in a theater...”
Therefore, the test is, were the accusations in the film True or False?
Some groups will riot whatever is said.
Some groups riot when their team looses a championship.
Some groups will riot when their team WINS a championship.
Is the riot the fault of the loosing team?
The refs?
The league for having a championship game at all?
(Sarah Chayes is one of the idiots...)
“Don’t say anything that could upset a crazy person” is not a standard. Murderous rage in the case of these “riots” is most often a deliberate, provoked, and self-provoked insanity designed to declare war on all of us until we obey a law other than our own.
Our country is a republic because we sought freedom from the tyranny of both despots and mobs. We believed that human nature can and should be better than the impulses to lynch, rape, and murder. We tame the blood-lust within; it does not tame us from without. That is the choice and philosophy upon which we have based outselves as a country: the individual behaves him/herself because our image of God is of a benevolent Creator who gave each one of us the means and freedoms and responsibilities to govern our own lives civilly. That image of God is at odds with the concept of God and Law we see in these riots. Choose one.
Insulting Muslims is like yelling “Fire!” falsely in a crowded theater because insulted Muslims like to set fire to things.
OK. Got it.
And that concludes today's lesson in “Liberal Logic”; or, Why the principled defense of our precious Constitutional liberties must never be left to liberals.