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To: Ancesthntr

“You absolutely CAN yell “FIRE!” in a crowded theater.”

An interesting aside, the Fire in a theater case was Schenck vs USA. He was handing out handbills protesting the WWI draft. He was arrested by Wilson the dictator for violating the espionage act, and it was upheld by the Supremes who said by opposing the draft, Schenck was creating a clear and present danger... and that you may not yell fire in a crowded theater.

Basically, free speech on a political topic is creating a danger to society. Another gift from Woodrow Wilson.


95 posted on 06/04/2019 11:01:07 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: DesertRhino

“Basically, free speech on a political topic is creating a danger to society. Another gift from Woodrow Wilson.”


The irony about banning political speech is that protecting unpopular (as thought of by those in power) political speech is EXACTLY the purpose of the free speech clause of the 1st Amendment.

I despise Wilson with every fiber of my being...Obama is the only one I despise more, but mainly because he is within my memory. But Wilson’s actions have destroyed the Republic set up by the Founders, more than anything the Halfrican Fraud and his ball-bearing Wookie beard could have ever done.


107 posted on 06/04/2019 1:42:20 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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