>Making a threat against the POTUS is and should be a crime.
Really? SHOULD it be a crime? Why should the President enjoy a separate level of legal protection than any general citizen?
Also isn’t “limited free speech,” like “limited free-will” an absurdity? If the item be free then it is unconstrained, and if it is constrained then it is not free.
If it is absurd to limit speech, then it is also absurd to limit it from being “passionate,” “abusive,” “derogatory,” or [even] “violent.” In simple terms, should it be illegal for someone to say [after being ripped-off, say] “If I could kill you I would, you worthless shit-bag bastard!”?
If I told an aquaintance of yours I was thinking about going to your home and killing you and your family you would just mark that to free speech??
Srs you are so wrong here.
Should threats against the leader of the greatest country on earth be taken seriously? Should it be against the law to threaten to kill him?
Yes, regardless of which POS currently holds the title.