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Posted on 10/08/2025 4:57:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Does a day go by where some leftist politician, talking head, “entertainer,” “comedian,” or anchor person isn’t vilifying a conservative by using terms such as Nazi, fascist, Hitler, or even (hilariously) Stalinist? We know starkly from the murder of Charlie Kirk that these portrayals matter. After all, doesn’t demonization have a purpose? Is it not to invoke opprobrium on one’s opponent? Isn’t violence simply extreme opprobrium?
Well, let’s dwell on 18 U.S. Code § 373:
Whoever, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against property or against the person of another in violation of the laws of the United States, and under circumstances strongly corroborative of that intent, solicits, commands, induces, or otherwise endeavors to persuade such other person to engage in such conduct, shall be imprisoned not more than one-half the maximum term of imprisonment or (notwithstanding section 3571) fined not more than one-half of the maximum fine prescribed for the punishment of the crime solicited, or both; or if the crime solicited is punishable by life imprisonment or death, shall be imprisoned for not more than twenty years.
Although the statute has been used in the context of direct solicitations for murder (see, e.g., United States v. Talley), that doesn’t mean that the literal language does not, and should not, apply to those leftists who stir people up to a killing rage with their targeted, dehumanizing rhetoric.
I am as certain as night follows day that the leftist trolls will be all over this essay claiming this is a freedom of speech issue (I know—having a leftist cite freedom of speech these days is rich beyond measure), and that I am ignorant of the law’s “true meaning.”
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Better than leftist lawfare with fake crimes charged.
OK, but who talks likes this?
Do heels gape?
‘Freedom of speech’… like leftist cancel culture or their tax funded indoctrination mills?
Agreed. And look at the article's "Although the statute has been used in the context of direct solicitations for murder (see, e.g., United States v. Talley), that doesn’t mean that the literal language does not, and should not, apply to those leftists who stir people up to a killing rage with their targeted, dehumanizing rhetoric."
This reminds me of Justice Thomas correcting people who call him an originalist. He says he's a textualist. As in, he honors the Constitution for what the text itself says (which respect to what the words meant at the time the text was put into the Constitution). He doesn't try to read into what was "meant" by the words. The text is the text.
The author says we should apply the same concept to 18 U.S. Code § 373 (as quoted above in the original post) to the Dims' persistent calls for violence. I couldn't agree more.
Democrats are EVIL!!
Given July 13th, 2024, it puts what Kathy Griffin did in a new light.
Communists always incite violence against their enemies.
Interesting.
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I wouldn’t go for the heel. I would go for the neck, with a rope. It is going to have to happen to clean this nation up.
Whoever, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against property or against the person of another in violation of the laws of the United States, and under circumstances strongly corroborative of that intent, solicits, commands, induces, or otherwise endeavors to persuade such other person to engage in such conduct, shall be imprisoned not more than one-half the maximum term of imprisonment or (notwithstanding section 3571) fined not more than one-half of the maximum fine prescribed for the punishment of the crime solicited, or both; or if the crime solicited is punishable by life imprisonment or death, shall be imprisoned for not more than twenty years.
Uh…I do! My wife and daughters call me Mr. Webster!
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