[Lurker]

He wasn’t charged and prosecuted just for what he thought.

Sure he was. He thought, and shared his thought, that the Government should be overthrown by 'any means necessary.' That's a belief system. He shared that belief system.

He was prosecuted and imprisoned for it.

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[UCANSEE2]

“He was prosecuted and imprisoned for it.”

Yes, he was.

But, that was then, this is now. And that legal precedence has since been overturned.

It would be like saying that the FLDS sex with minors is OK because the law in Texas USED TO BE 14.

[metmom]

You’re contradicting yourself. He wasn’t prosecuted for what he thought, or believed, he was prosecuted for his actions.

Try again.