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It seems like a good sense law to me. It's law abiding citizens they would like to execute after all. Who's next, children?, black people?, people from Baltic countries?, muslims, disabled people? people with buck teeth?- Anyone you want to, if you believe asking for people (who haven't broken the law) to be murdered, is of utmost importance.
People should be able to feel free from implied threats (death in this instance), from losers who just want to murder people, because they don't like them.
We already have this kind of disgusting behaviour in the USA and the first amendment allows it.
A good example of this is the Westboro Baptist Church who can really only be called a hate group yet they can peddle their hatred openly in the USA.
Freedom of speech is important here but should not be used to spread hate and fear. It seems that their is some double standards with free speech. Recently two British tourists were barred from entry into the USA because they wrote what was seen as threats to the USA.
A clear definition must now be made of what is acceptable and what is not as far as free speech is concerned. In everything we do boundaries are made to make sure that abuse of a system does not occur. This should also be the case with free speech
Exactly. I don't think the leaflet is direct enough to incite violence, but if it was phrased more directly, like "Let's kill all the gays!" it would be.
However, if any action is taken up that makes the leaflet no longer hypothetical, then that is inciting violence.
It's the propaganda, that they take to their circle. This leaflet would help them to have a case, against gays. This is scary for people to not see it could go further then Freedom of Speech.
We already have this kind of disgusting behaviour in the USA and the first amendment allows it.
A good example of this is the Westboro Baptist Church who can really only be called a hate group yet they can peddle their hatred openly in the USA.
Freedom of speech is important here but should not be used to spread hate and fear. It seems that their is some double standards with free speech. Recently two British tourists were barred from entry into the USA because they wrote what was seen as threats to the USA.
A clear definition must now be made of what is acceptable and what is not as far as free speech is concerned. In everything we do boundaries are made to make sure that abuse of a system does not occur. This should also be the case with free speech
No no no. Because the government will draw "boundaries" you don't like sooner or later. That is why the Framers were wise enough not to put "exceptions" in the First Amendment.
Wow..I saw the poll results and nearly 1/2 of you think it's ok to distribute flyers calling for the death of other human beings.
I think the US is going to Hell in a handbasket and seeing results like this just confirms that we deserve anything and everything that is coming to us.
There's a big difference between exercising free speech to protest against something and inciting hatred. THIS is a case of inciting hatred with intent to cause harm to a group (or groups) of people. I agree with the court's verdict and the sentencing.
No no no. Because the government will draw "boundaries" you don't like sooner or later. That is why the Framers were wise enough not to put "exceptions" in the First Amendment.
I'm afraid that as a race....... Human beings do NOT have self control, if they did then a blanket free speech could work well. Just saying we have free speech protected by the first amendment does NOT make it workable.
We already have restrictions on what can be said for example on TV with words muted or bleeped out......... isn't that a restriction on free speech....... no threats are being made.
We seem to be selective when using the first amendment.... don't we?
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