[Jakarta ex-pat]

"First Amendment expert Floyd Abrams said the defendants were expressing "political advocacy, detestable to almost all of us, but protected nonetheless." "I find disturbing the notion that people can be jailed for reasons that bear on the content of what they are saying," Abrams said."

Amen.

[tomkat]

understand your point, but the sonofabitch should have been impaled on some rebar in the rubble nonetheless ...

[Dakmar]

Would my free spreech rights include suggesting that a can of whoop-ass be opened on the moron?

[ChiMark]

I think you don't have a clue. Can't you see the difference here? How does hate speech ride as protected? If he said Blacks should have died,this would count as hate speech and not protected be hate speech. You really have to be twisted to see this a political speech. Too bad someone did'nt get in his face. Calling for the destruction of this country is not protected political speech. During a crisis of this magnitude his actions count for treason.