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To: AnthonySoprano

Dumbass. Actionable incitement has to call for immediate violent action. The Presidents words don’t qualify as a matter of law. All these simpletons who don’t know what they’re talking about should just STFU


7 posted on 01/26/2021 7:07:37 PM PST by j.havenfarm (20 years on Free Republic, 12/10/20! More than 3700 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: j.havenfarm

Brandenburg v. Ohio 395 U.S. 444 (1969).


27 posted on 01/26/2021 7:17:02 PM PST by JME_FAN (MOLON LABE!)
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To: j.havenfarm

Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement in the narrower sense is the speaker’s enthusiasm for the result. Eloquence may set fire to reason. But whatever may be thought of the redundant discourse before us it had no chance of starting a present conflagration. If in the long run the beliefs expressed in proletarian dictatorship are destined to be accepted by the dominant forces of the community, the only meaning of free speech is that they should be given their chance and have their way.
Gitlow v. People of State of New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925), (Mr. Justice Holmes, dissenting)

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/268/652#


121 posted on 01/26/2021 11:56:13 PM PST by HKMk23 (The days of my sojourn have been few and evil, and I have not attained the staure of my forebears.)
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To: j.havenfarm

Actionable incitement has to call for immediate violent action. The Presidents words don’t qualify as a matter of law. All these simpletons who don’t know what they’re talking about should just STFU
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Well and truly said and thanks for posting it!


183 posted on 01/28/2021 6:17:03 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Conceding the result of a fraudulent election is both irrational and immoral.)
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