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Pelosi: You Can’t Yell ‘Wolf’ In A Crowded Theater [VIDEO]
Daily Caller ^ | 8/24/2017 | Chuck Ross

Posted on 08/24/2017 1:08:33 PM PDT by simpson96

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appeared confused in an interview this week about what kind of speech is protected by the U.S. Constitution.

“The Constitution does not say that a person can shout…yell ‘wolf’ in a crowded theater. If you are endangering people, then you don’t have a constitutional right to do that,” Pelosi said in an interview on Wednesday with San Francisco TV station KRON.

The Democrat seemingly meant to paraphrase an opinion written by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in the landmark free speech case, Schenck v. United States (1919).

“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic,” Holmes wrote in his opinion.

Pelosi offered up the mixed metaphor after being asked about a request she made with the National Park Service to deny a permit to Patriot Prayer, a right-wing group that has plans to hold a rally at San Francisco’s Crissy Field this weekend.

The National Park Service initially withheld the permit until Patriot Prayer’s organizers agreed to certain conditions aimed at limiting the risk of violence at the event.

“My hope is the park service would not allow these elements to use a national park to spew forth their venom,” Pelosi said in the interview.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


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To: simpson96

Oh please Oh please Oh please Oh please Oh please Oh please let the proglib comrats be THAT stupid...

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President {Pelosi?)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3572702/posts

CAN YOU SAY “PRESIDENT Pelosi”?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3572493/posts

8 Democrats Who Could Run for President in 2020

https://www.speakstrategic.com/single-post/2016/11/19/8-Democrats-Who-Could-Run-for-President-in-2020

Gonna be weird when the Pelosi-Hatch ticket runs for re-election in 2020 and wins.

https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/865047307192029184?lang=en

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41 posted on 08/24/2017 1:25:03 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: simpson96

42 posted on 08/24/2017 1:25:13 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: simpson96

LOL


43 posted on 08/24/2017 1:25:13 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: simpson96

But yelling NAZI in a crowded nation is just fine...

Sure Nancy. Bark on...

No, HEEL, ROLL OVER, and STAY (mute).

Good dog...


44 posted on 08/24/2017 1:25:17 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: dragnet2

Ha, I use that too, lol.


45 posted on 08/24/2017 1:26:04 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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46 posted on 08/24/2017 1:26:13 PM PDT by shibumi (Bee Neeth the Mambo Sun, I *GOT* to be The One)
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To: SaveFerris
Some leftists just wind up yelling "OUCH!!!" in a crowded riot.

If he has NP's intellect, he'll be yelling "Oh no! Not again!" for the foreseeable future.

47 posted on 08/24/2017 1:26:25 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: simpson96

The “clear and present danger” test applies. Inflammatory speech does not in itself inspire violence, and the bar USED TO be set high to establish grounds for prior restraint.

Plus Nancy Pelousy is a withered hag with tapioca for brains.


48 posted on 08/24/2017 1:26:58 PM PDT by IronJack (sh)
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To: simpson96

Can you yell “FIRE” in a crowded zoo?


49 posted on 08/24/2017 1:27:16 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: simpson96

Is she, by any chance, related to yogi Berra?


50 posted on 08/24/2017 1:28:06 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative
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To: simpson96

Given that we are dealing with sheeple, it might just spark a panic.


51 posted on 08/24/2017 1:28:32 PM PDT by Hieronymus (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
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To: Red Badger

Remember that delightful fable about the boy who cried “fire”. :-)

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52 posted on 08/24/2017 1:28:39 PM PDT by Mears
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To: simpson96
Image result for wolf pelosi

Image result for wolf pelosi

53 posted on 08/24/2017 1:28:42 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: simpson96

Poor dingbat mixed her metaphors, you can’t yell fire in a building crying wolf is what you have done with Russia, racist and everything else you’ve tried on Trump


54 posted on 08/24/2017 1:29:17 PM PDT by edzo4 (Democrats playbook = promise everything, deliver nothing, blame someone else.)
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To: Old Yeller

No, but you can set a fire to a store in a crowded street IF it is associated with an anti-White riot.


55 posted on 08/24/2017 1:29:26 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Calvin Locke

I had no idea those tear gas canisters traveled that quickly and could be aimed so accurately.

And now, for the guy in that video clip, a little song from the archives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj_9CiNkkn4


56 posted on 08/24/2017 1:29:38 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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To: Mears

Yes, the poor thing was eaten by three bears...................


57 posted on 08/24/2017 1:29:46 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: simpson96

Could I yell “møøse” in a crowed theater?


58 posted on 08/24/2017 1:30:08 PM PDT by Flick Lives (#CNNblackmail)
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To: Publius

If wishes were horses, we’d all be saddle sore.


59 posted on 08/24/2017 1:31:46 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative
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To: simpson96

And now we are seeing the results of shooting botox into an area so close to the brain.


60 posted on 08/24/2017 1:32:23 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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