[VaGunGuy]

Hmmmm....There's a crack house across the street from me. My wife and I often talk about it. Sometimes, in jest, we joke about burning it down. We're not serious, we're joking. It's in bad taste, sure, but so is operating a crack house nearby when you and your neighbors have kids.

Let's say that the crack neighbors bugged our house or tapped our phones in violation of the law. Then let's say that the crack dealer's union got into it, called a press conference, told our neighbors that we were anti-crack arsonists, and we lost our jobs over it.

Does the fact that we joked about the crackhouse mean that they have a right to destroy our lives and livelihood by defaming us in public using the fruits of a criminal act to do it?

[Boot Hill]

"Then let's say that the crack dealer's union got into it, called a press conference, told our neighbors that we were anti-crack arsonists..."

Your analogy is just plain goofy, too goofy to take seriously or even respond to.

--Boot Hill

[Proud_texan]

But of course citizen, thinking thoughts not approved by the state is a serious crime, it must be stopped at all costs. (/scarcasm).

[Publius6961]

Then let's say that the crack dealer's union got into it, called a press conference, told our neighbors that we were anti-crack arsonists, and we lost our jobs over it.

Good comparison, but you neglected the most inflammatory element. The crack dealer could play the racism card, obscuring all other arguments.