Sunday, August 16, 2009

Today I read in the news of a person who the paper claimed to be a "right wing" blogger. According to the newspaper article, he advocated in his blog that three federal judges be killed. The paper article further stated that the blogger posted photos of the judges and and a map showing the courthouse where they work. The map noted specifically the arrangement of the anti-bomb barriers at the courthouse. He was arrested by the FBI and is now awaiting trial for threatening the judges.

I'm sure that that this case will assuredly be heard as a freedom of speech case by the U. S. Supreme Court if the blogger is convicted.

WTFO? What in the constitution gives the blogger the right to post photos of the judges and depict bomb barriers? His actions certainly may encourage unbalanced people in our society to take some horrible action that might well kill the judges and probably many innocent people as well. Does the constitution allow one to advocate the killing of anyone for their decisions?
  

1 comment:

  1. This is the sort of thing that scares me most, really; people (ab)using the protections of the Constitution in order to forward a narrow-minded, dangerous agenda.

    We CAN'T yell 'fire!' in crowded theatre, yet people do it all the time (Fox "News," anyone?). To incite others to violence and then sit back and claim First Amendment protection is vile, and we as a society should never tolerate such behavior.

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