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From: FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Inconvenient lefties
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:26:05 -0400
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On 3/28/24 6:06 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:
>> On 3/28/2024 2:31 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> In article
>>> <17c0fc54e55b8534$37200$3384359$c2d58868@news.newsdemon.com>,
>>> moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3/28/2024 12:11 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>> On Mar 27, 2024 at 8:05:40 PM PDT, "moviePig" <never@nothere.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 3/27/2024 7:58 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>> In article
>>>>>>> <17c0c13d249c8eca$72548$1768716$4ad50060@news.newsdemon.com>,
>>>>>>> moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 3/27/2024 6:57 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>>>> In article <uu22s3$32lii$2@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>>>>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Last Friday, a Chicago alderman (there are cockroaches with higher
>>>>>>>>>>>> social standing) gave a speech at a rally outside city hall
>>>>>>>>>>>> condemning Biden and support for Israel in the war against Hamas.
>>>>>>>>>>>> A veteran had burned a special American flag
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Why is it that burning the American flag is protected speech, but
>>>>>>>>>>> if you burn an Alphabet Mafia rainbow flag, you can get arrested for
>>>>>>>>>>> a hate crime?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> You mean a flag that does not belong to you, not your own flag.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> No, I mean any rainbow flag. If you go buy one yourself, then take it
>>>>>>>>> to an anti-troon protest and burn it, it's a hate crime.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> But if you buy an American flag and take it to an Antifa riot and
>>>>>>>>> burn it, protected speech.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The former action is one of hate, the latter is one of protest.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What if the former is one of protest, too?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That'd be for a judge to be convinced of
>>>>>
>>>>> Since when do I have to convince the government of the reasons for my
>>>>> speech to keep from being jailed for it?
>>>>>
>>>>> "Congress shall make no law..."
>>>>>
>>>>>> ...who might ask, e.g., whether the defendant *knew* how the act would
>>>>>> be perceived.
>>>>>
>>>>> My right to free speech isn't dependent on how someone else-- with an
>>>>> agenda of their own-- might perceive my words.
>>>>
>>>> Are you disputing laws against hate speech or how they're enforced?
>>>
>>> Both. Hate speech is protected speech per the Supreme Court and any laws
>>> to the contrary are unconstitutional.
>>>
>>> National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, 432 U.S. 43
>>> (1977)
>>
>> One cold night, a homeless man builds and lights a bonfire that destroys
>> a family's manicured lawn. Elsewhere, a well-known redneck erects and
>> burns a wooden cross, destroying the lawn of a black family.
>>
>> To your mind, are these infractions fully equivalent to each other?
> 
> Those are crimes, not speech. You didn't ask about hate crimes. You asked
> about hate speech.
> 

So change it to incitement to commit a crime by speech, then.

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