Posted on 09/16/2025 5:31:46 AM PDT by hcmama
Conservative talkshow host Erick Erickson tore into “moron” Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday after she claimed “hate speech” did not count as “free speech” and would be targeted by her office.
During an interview with former White House official Katie Miller, Bondi said, “There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society.”
She warned, “We will absolutely target you, go after you if you are targeting anyone with hate speech, anything, and that’s across the aisle.”
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There is categorically no First Amendment exception for "hate speech" in the US Constitution. There is, in fact, no such legal entity as "hate speech." This theory has been totally rejected by SCOTUS, and for her to suggest the government would "come after" those engaging in inflammatory speech is an affront to liberty.
The very idea is the cornerestone of leftist-liberal authoritarianism. To see this resurrected on the right is stomach-churning. Even squishes like Erickson see how dangerous it is. It's also an affront to everything Charlie Kirk stood for.
Don’t want to open the door to all this as Dems will use it against us.
Fortunately, though Obama lamented it, we have those ‘negative liberties’ per the Constitution and Bill of Rights to protect us. For now...
What needed to be said was there is no protection for speech that actively encourages violence or the active suppression of the exercise of said free speech.
A lawyer should know how to phrase these things, good grief.
Radical Left Mediate quotes Rhino Supreme Erik E the jack a$$
as a conservative.
Lol , spare me that lefty BS from that Dem website .
Free speech = screw your feelings. Categorizing hate speech leaves the door open to individual interpretation. That’s not what the 1st amendment says. Trump has GOT to be disappointed in Bondis statement
Hate speech that crosses the line into threats of violence is NOT protected by the First Amendment. It’s a crime. For far too long, we’ve watched the radical left normalize threats, call for assassinations, and cheer on political violence. That era is over.
Under 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), it is a federal crime to transmit “any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another.” Likewise, 18 U.S.C. § 876 and 18 U.S.C. § 115 make it a felony to threaten public officials, members of Congress, or their families.
You cannot call for someone’s murder. You cannot swat a Member of Congress. You cannot dox a conservative family and think it will be brushed off as “free speech.” These acts are punishable crimes, and every single threat will be met with the full force of the law.
Free speech protects ideas, debate, even dissent but it does NOT and will NEVER protect violence.
It is clear this violent rhetoric is designed to silence others from voicing conservative ideals.
We will never be silenced. Not for our families, not for our freedoms, and never for Charlie. His legacy will not be erased by fear or intimidation.
Bondi doesn’t seem very bright...
I dont believe a Vowel from radical lefty Mediate or nutter Erik E .
Erik E is a has been Rhino .
I don’t think hate speech is the right answer. So I agree it’s a slippery slope at the left. We use against us as well, and it doesn’t align with the first amendment anyway. But I think what we could do to help curb, radical leftist, inciting violence And radicalism by calling people, Nazis and fascist, etc. etc. is take the defamation route.
And through the courts, when you have the joy reads of the world, and whoever else that are openly calling people these things “ without evidence” to “CNN, we go after them in court for defamation
Bondi needs to take back, or “clarify” as we say, her meaning and intent to prosecute hate speech. If not, this would serve to set a new precedent that would be followed by a future DOJ, something we have fought long and hard to eliminate. The fact that the term “hate speech” is used so dis-proportionately against conservatives, like Charlie Kirk, should giver her all the reason to rethink her statement.
Of course, threats of violence are not protected under the First Amendment, nor is incitement.
But even in the case of incitement, SCOTUS has established a very high standard of proof from the state that the speech was intended to provoke "imminent lawless action."
An Attorney General of the United States should be cautious about how they discuss these matters. We don't want to go down this road of putting asterisks beside the First Amendment.
Or both
Violent speech is not protected.
Eric Erickson is not a Conservative. Depends if they are planning attacks on ICE.
Threats of violence have never been protected under the First Amendment. They have always been felonies under state and federal law.
That was all she needed to say. Leave the steaming "hate speech" load to the left.
Even Stephen Miller can’t talk this airhead Blondi out of a pickle.
Communicating a threat of violence has never been protected under the First Amendment.
But what do you consider "violent speech" that should not receive First Amendment protection?
BlondiBondi strikes again. Incompetent.
She is reportedly wanting Patel fired.
How long can Wiles protect her?
Exactly this.
It’s obvious that the AG was inarticulately trying to draw a distinction between hate speech being hurled about today in the private setting versus government protected First Amendment hate speech. There is a difference and those who have been and are being fired now in the private sector seem to now be learning this lesson the hard way. We as a society need to self-police vile unorthodox cussing swearing speech in every day discourse or we will all turn into nihilistic lunatics.
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