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 â 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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The mask has slipped. We’ve seen the face. The chief prosecutor in the nation has attacked the principle of free speech, and threatened all Americans if they dare exercise a fundamental right in the manner they choose.
The left spent years blatting about “chilling effects” on various rights. It can’t be more obvious than this commissar’s diktat.
She must be removed from office. Any empty suit in Congress who can’t support that is part and parcel of her attacks at several levels on the 1st Amendment.
Lynch is an idiot. Prosecute that. ...As for calling Muslims names, or saying mean things to them about their evil religion, the reason it scares the hell out of this regime and its media minions is because they know speech can turn moderate Muslims into rabid dogs, because that is what their evil religion does to people.
Christians may get indignant an complain, but they aren’t going to start raping women, shooting people, beheading people and burning things. Christianity is not an evil religion.
“Have you ever notice the woman for abortion are the ones you dont want to boink anyways”
Yes.
Minnie Mouse’s mom is taking prednisone, you say?
No, she totally meant what she said the first time around.
Another Gene Kelly, tap dancing the beaten path off stage left. Trip and fall, you *itch.
[[doesnât care.]]
Doesn’t care- and like every bully, when she was challenged, she tucks tail and whimpers away by changing what she said
Ah the memories! That class I had in speech recalibration was a toughie.
lol.
axis booster club.....now THAT was funny
thanks for the chuckle
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In her left hand, Lady Justice holds balance scales, which represent the weighing of evidence. When taken with the blindfold, the symbolism is that evidence must be weighed on it's own merit.
In her right hand, Lady Justice is seen to have a sword that faces downwards. This sword represents punishment. This sword is held below the scales to show that evidence and court is always held before punishment
here’s a link for the article that works:
Yes, she got it wrong, if that was the case. She is also wrong about going to war against Syria - maybe that is the warrior woman in Carly Fiorino coming out?!
Too late -- she's already said exactly what she meant.
“recalibrate,” = my fascist is showing.
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After your gestapo speech, "I will Lynch" you if you dare to speak the truth about my CAIR and Muslim Brother buddies!.
You will be getting asked by a lot of conservative lawyers to explain what you don't understand about our first amendment rights after you leave your office in 2016 in civil courts around this country.
Even some $inators and Congre$$its may grow a pair and demand that you explain on live tv what you said re "Lynching" Americans for daring to exercise their First Amendment rights.
In other words, (just as Hillary misspoke on dodging sniper fire in Bosnia, when she was actually receiving flowers from a little girl) Lynch misspoke about prosecuting free speech and will only prosecute violent crimes. liberals disgust me. If the media had any integrity at all, those two would be laughingstocks.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3369413/posts?page=29#29
Agreed; I think he and his crew got called on the carpet...
I wonder who those high level people were?
And what their leverage point was?
Insult my Isis murdering buddies, and I will have you Lynched!"
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