ChrisL
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- Jul 24, 2014
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Orwell's thought police would love to have youWhat deadly panic was started by seeing a rope around a statue?Burning a flag is free speech so why isn't this?
Well, if you shout "fire" in a crowded theater you are not protected by the 1st Amendment. You're potentially causing harm. Sticking a noose around a black statue could enrage a lot of people in a situation that, presently, is a little bit of a tinder box. It could have potentially caused a lot of problems. Definitely not protected by the 1st Amendment.
Stop lying, Leftists!
Well I don't know what happened. What COULD happen is that someone takes massive offense and then causes a riot. Things like this.
It's not thought police at all. You can THINK what you like, you just can't ACT on those thoughts.
The point being that freedom of speech is LIMITED, always has been and always will be.
Do you think someone should be able to put other people's lives in danger?
I mean, they have laws against treason, if you speak out and people get killed, like CIA or US Soldiers for example, then you can be guilty of saying something that caused problems.
Now, imagine, someone puts a noose around the neck of a statue of a black man, black people riot and someone gets killed in the riot. The person who put the noose around the neck is guilty of committing a crime. Forget free speech, a crime has been committed. Sure, the person who committed the killing would also be guilty, but so too would the person who started it all.
It's simple, it's been a part of US law for a long, long time.
How did this kid put anyone's life in danger? It was a statue!!!! Duh!