Posted on 08/24/2017 1:08:33 PM PDT by simpson96
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appeared confused in an interview this week about what kind of speech is protected by the U.S. Constitution.
“The Constitution does not say that a person can shout…yell ‘wolf’ in a crowded theater. If you are endangering people, then you don’t have a constitutional right to do that,” Pelosi said in an interview on Wednesday with San Francisco TV station KRON.
The Democrat seemingly meant to paraphrase an opinion written by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in the landmark free speech case, Schenck v. United States (1919).
“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic,” Holmes wrote in his opinion.
Pelosi offered up the mixed metaphor after being asked about a request she made with the National Park Service to deny a permit to Patriot Prayer, a right-wing group that has plans to hold a rally at San Francisco’s Crissy Field this weekend.
The National Park Service initially withheld the permit until Patriot Prayer’s organizers agreed to certain conditions aimed at limiting the risk of violence at the event.
“My hope is the park service would not allow these elements to use a national park to spew forth their venom,” Pelosi said in the interview.
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What happens if you’re “Dances With Wolves”???
Which raises the question
If a man is in the forest and makes a statement, is he still wrong just because there isn’t a woman around?
“People who live in glass houses should not get stoned...................
What if the people in the theater think I’m shouting WOOF?
Does that still count?
For God’s sake, and these idiots are the one’s saying TRUMP is mentally unfit???
Nancy Pelosi smart enough to be a Democrat.
“It’s an ill wind that gathers no moss.”
When will her family inform her that she is embarrassment??
A pig in a poke is a diamond in the rough.
Her aides will keep her propped up ..........literally..............
Maybe she will get to do Chemo with McCain
A prayer group is ‘spewing venom’? That is exactly the kind of divisive rhetoric that she claims to be against. Again, she proves that she’s not very bright, just corrupt like her dad.
And never shout “snakes” on a plane!
“For God’s sake, and these idiots are the one’s saying TRUMP is mentally unfit???”
Exactly what I was thinking.
Can you if the wolf is on fire?
“Where’s the Halal Snackbar?”
Be a shame if she came down with Juan McQueeg disease.
Remember your clocks: Spring backwards, fall forward.
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