I have read it ... and the Federal Attorney is threatening to prosecute - based on a photo of a man with a shotgun making references to Muslims. That was his original assertion. But he cannot do so - it is only an obama Administration induced threat. Yes - and WHERE your excerpt is the word RACE mentioned?
Islam is supposedly a religion - Muslims are followers of Islam. Neither term refers to RACE. Arab is also not a race.
Here is something for you to think about.
First Amendment Center president and executive director Gene Policinski said before the Manchester meeting on Tuesday that the details of the threat (photo of a man with a shotgun) and the specificity of its target are significant in determining how federal law applies to comments made in a public forum.
The threat “has to be likely, imminent and directed at a specific person,” Policinski said.
He said remarks such as those made by West (guy who posted the photo) are protected speech.
Killian didn’t address West’s post, except to acknowledge that it created a stir in the community.
“While [West’s] cartoon might be tasteless and crass and juvenile and even hateful, I think the founders of this nation provided for people to be able to express those views,” Policinski said. “When it comes to a public official, I think the market place idea is protected under the First Amendment, where voters can decide if this is the kind of person whose opinion and whose judgment they trust to hold public office.”
In all instances, the First Amendment “requires government to really demonstrate that it’s a true threat before they can restrict our speech,” he said.
And ‘Vicious Acts’ are not speech ... this is referring to acts such as burning a Mosque or destroying property ...
The point I was making is, the government cannot be trusted to follow any law as written - they follow it the way they “want” it to be. In other words, what they would decide is “a true threat” would be whatever they want it to be. They get to define it and act. What we think it means, means nothing.
As far as ethnicity, they can also label anyone what they want. Hussein has labeled himself an American born on American soil in Hawaii. I have no idea what race he has labeled himself. A person may think he/she is of (whatever) race and the government can label them anything they want. I am labeled as a white American - I may personally change that to white “used to be an American before it became a communist Muslim country”.
I used to think laws meant something concrete - with Hussein, they mean whatever he wants them to mean. Hussein turned a penalty into a tax - he can do whatever he wants to interpret laws so they benefit his cause.
You are using rational thinking and facts - those mean nothing to Hussein and his government.
You and I are not on opposite sides - I have no quarrel with anything you have written but that doesn't mean Hussein acknowledges it as fact. He will do what he wants which is my point.