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To: Freeleesy

This probably falls under the “fighting words” exception to the First Amendment.

The Wisconsin statute:

947.01 Disorderly conduct.
(1) Whoever, in a public or private place, engages in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud or otherwise disorderly conduct under circumstances in which the conduct tends to cause or provoke a disturbance is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.

(2) Unless other facts and circumstances that indicate a criminal or malicious intent on the part of the person apply, a person is not in violation of, and may not be charged with a violation of, this section for loading a firearm, or for carrying or going armed with a firearm or a knife, without regard to whether the firearm is loaded or the firearm or the knife is concealed or openly carried.
History: 1977 c. 173; 1979 c. 131; 2011 a. 35; 2015 a. 149.


17 posted on 05/12/2024 5:33:42 PM PDT by gunnut
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To: gunnut

This probably falls under the “fighting words” exception to the First Amendment.


Which might justify someone slugging him, but not the police arresting him. If someone wants to be a Nazi, it’s a free country and he has the right to do it. If he throws a Nazi salute, that’s freedom of expression. He can be shunned by decent people,


19 posted on 05/12/2024 5:41:00 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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