[fruser1]

He should be investigated, which would be due process.

Suspending a license w/o that is not due process.

Consider this: if had not blogged it, where he could be identified through computer records, but spoke it and a cop overheard, would he be subject to arrest?

To identify him and determine he has a license, he’d need to be detained and asked for ID at a minimum.

Put another way, is saying something like this in the general public as bad as joking about bombs in an airport?

[Mad Dawgg]

"Put another way, is saying something like this in the general public as bad as joking about bombs in an airport?"

See my problem with the whole thing is NOW its unacceptable to joke about bombs in an airport.

We all just accept it as such.

...and the Overton Window gets just a little bit bigger and we lose a little more liberty...

[Above My Pay Grade]

The “534 to go” might be dismissed as the equivalent of joking about bombs in an airport (which will probably get you arrested these days, or at least detained and prevented from boarding your flight).

The part of about not shooting innocent people and targeting the congress members is clearly not a joke, and is advocating the murder of 534 members of Congress. The authorities were right to temporarily take his weapons. He will have an opportunity to get them back through due process.

Do you think an Islamic Jihadist who blogs threats or calls for 534 suicide bombings or terrorist attacks should be allowed to keep his weapons, and the 1,000 pounds of fertilizer in the van in his garage until due process has been completed?

[EDINVA]

I’ve never had a DUI so don’t know the process, but am assuming that if I’m pulled over with a very high blood alcohol level, they’re going to take my license on the spot.

This has been referred to as “thoughts,” and the authorities as “thought police.” But, it is NOT thoughts, it’s a published article, put online, available to hundreds of millions of people. If they were merely his thoughts none of us would be writing about them.

He applied for and was granted a ‘permit’ by the same authorities who have withdrawn that permit temporarily; he submitted to their right to issue him a permit. As part of that, he very likely submitted to its withdrawal under certain circumstances. If we want to do away completely with ‘permits’ to carry, that is quite another topic.

He should be arrested and convicted of first degree stupidity.