Posted on 12/07/2015 10:37:13 AM PST by SkyPilot
Attorney General Loretta Lynch Monday appeared to recalibrate remarks she made last week that suggested the Justice Department could investigate speech deemed hostile towards Muslims.
"Of course, we prosecute deeds and not words," she said at a press conference Monday to announce an unrelated civil rights investigation into the Chicago Police Department.
Some conservatives criticized Lynch for her comments to a Muslim civil rights group, where she lamented "the ability of people to issue hateful speech of all types from the anonymity of a screen."
Speaking to a Muslim Advocates dinner in Arlington, Va., Lynch affirmed that "this is a country that is based upon free speech." However, she went on to suggest that the Justice Department would "take action" when such speech "edges towards violence, when we see the potential to lift...that mantle of anti-Muslim rhetoric."
First Amendment precedents generally protect speech, even hateful speech, from punishment unless the comments are intended to incite direct action against specific individuals or in a specific place.
Lynch's comments Monday seemed to better capture that balance by focusing on those who might act out, rather than those who may be fomenting trouble.
"We always have a concern when we see the rhetoric rising against any particular group in America, that it might inspire others to violent action — and that violent action is what we would have to deal with," Lynch told journalists at Justice Department headquarters. She also urged Americans "not to give into fear" in the wake of the apparent terrorist attack in California. "So, [what] we're focused on, obviously, is protecting all of the people under the ambit of the Department of Justice."
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Like Kerry and others in the administration she is an idiot.
She was a major supporter of Jewish hating and pro-Islamic terror (PLO) groups while she was an Affirmative Action student at Harvard in the 80’s. Arrest her. And charge her with Treason.
To late.
More concern about the rhetoric than the jihad being waged, huh? Americans are being murdered and all she is worried about is somebodies feelings might get hurt.
...and we only prosecute white deeds, not black ones. And while we may allow words, we'll jail you for a video we don't like in a minute (if you're white).
“Pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon”.
Violent hate speech spoken by a hate group directed at a particular segment of our society.
Knock yourself out, Madame Tyrant.
Lynch recalibrating the Taqiyya.
The govt is full of failing affirmative action types. She and the Resident are 2 of them. See, isnt promotion based on skin color working out well...
Let's not insult the everyday, Darwin-Award-winning idiots by comparing them to the abyss-of-treason-scum-suckers like Kerry and AG Loretta.
Now Obama is taking on the Chicago Police Force and trying to neuter it.
I look forward to Lynch indicting some radical feminist blogger who says all men should be killed.
Wait..what?
Oh. nevermind.
This AG either doesn’t know the basics or doesn’t care.
” Speaking to a Muslim Advocates dinner in Arlington, Va., “
Imagine a top government official in 1943 speaking to The Axis Booster Club dinner.
More Muslim lies.
Did she return the pearl necklace she got from Elena Kagan?
WHERE ARE THEY, Loretta? { crickets crickets crickets }
Doesn't look like recalibration helped. Best toss this justice out with holder. We need one that looks more like this:
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