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To: GingisK
One can be prosecuted for yelling "FIRE" in a crowded theater when there is no fire.

I almost short-circuited your use of this cliche in a previous post but I left it out. I'll put it back in now..

Before you try to tell me that I can't yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater let me tell you that I, in fact, CAN yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater IF IT IS TRUE.

Everything I say is, to the best of my ability, true and verifiable unless it is simply an opinion that can't be measured. That's the way I have trained myself since my youth (and I am no longer young.)

You are entitled to you opinions. I don't share them. If you consider yourself to be a true Conservative then it is my opinion you ought to reconsider.

Good bye.

330 posted on 09/07/2010 12:15:50 PM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality: Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: paulycy

In the 1942 case of ‘Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire’, the Supreme Court held that so-called “fighting words...which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace” are not protected by the First Amendment and can be punished. The Court based its decision on the concept that such utterances are of “slight social value as a step to truth.”


332 posted on 09/07/2010 12:19:03 PM PDT by GingisK
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