Hey, I dialed it back and agreed that the rallies were indeed protected. Give me some credit.
Printable View
Saying things that people disagree with is protected by the First Amendment. A call to direct violence isn't.Quote:
speech is not protected by the First Amendment if the speaker intends to incite a violation of the law that is both imminent and likely. While the precise meaning of "imminent" may be ambiguous in some cases, the court provided later clarification in Hess v. Indiana (1973). In this case, the court found that Hess's words did not fall outside the limits of protected speech, in part, because his speech "amounted to nothing more than advocacy of illegal action at some indefinite future time,"[1] and therefore did not meet the imminence requirement.
Just so there is no gray area (a place you seem to love to stay in).
Tell us your opinion of this whole situation.
False, because one thing that people can disagree with is, drum roll please...And we have a case where a bunch of people exhorted direct violence and direct violence promptly happened. You can stop virtue signaling about how much you want to protect speech you hate. I can't stress this enough, the amount anyone disagrees with speech is completely irrelevant to whether it's protected or not. Stop taking your Constitutional clues from Larry Flynt.Quote:
A call to direct violence on the spot, isn't.
Its not just protecting speech I hate, its just protecting free speech full stop. Whether it is hateful or not doesn't matter to me in this regard. You know next to nothing about me but pretend to know the inner workings of my mind.
So there are the quotes I read about, and then there are the quotes you still have yet to provide that show what you are talking about. I'm not going to fish around google for what you want me to see. I read a LA times article and a WaPo article and nothing I read said what you are saying happened.
What's your point?Quote:
I can't stress this enough, the amount anyone disagrees with speech is completely irrelevant to whether it's protected or not.
Just so there is no gray area (a place you seem to love to stay in).
Tell us your opinion of this whole situation.