To: SERKIT
If there really is a raging fire in a crowded theater, and everyone is ignoring it, then yelling “Fire” is a very good thing.
2 posted on
05/09/2015 10:33:47 AM PDT by
UnwashedPeasant
(A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
To: UnwashedPeasant
4 posted on
05/09/2015 10:36:28 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: UnwashedPeasant
If there really is a raging fire in a crowded theater, and everyone is ignoring it, then yelling “Fire” is a very good thing. You are very correct and have apparently bought in to the traditional misquoting of Holmes' statement. Read it again....emphasis added.....
"falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater"
15 posted on
05/09/2015 11:08:04 AM PDT by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
To: UnwashedPeasant
Yes, you do have the right to yell “fire’’ in a crowed theater. But be prepared for the consequences of your speech. This is the essence of free speech that seems to be getting lost in all the shouting.
17 posted on
05/09/2015 11:14:09 AM PDT by
jmacusa
(Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
To: sauropod
19 posted on
05/09/2015 11:26:24 AM PDT by
sauropod
(I am His and He is mine.)
To: UnwashedPeasant
"You can--in fact, must--yell 'Fire!' in a crowded theater. It just has to be the truth." --Jonah Goldberg
20 posted on
05/09/2015 11:33:07 AM PDT by
Savage Beast
( "Me and my brother left D.C." is indicative of the me-first culture that is so pervasive! A message)
To: UnwashedPeasant
A couple of days ago the man who impersonates Pope Francis on the Imus show pointed out that you can’t cry “Movie!” in a crowded fire house.
To: UnwashedPeasant
A couple of days ago the man who impersonates Pope Francis on the Imus show pointed out that you can’t cry “Movie!” in a crowded fire house.
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