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Fascist paramilitary thug threatens to arrest US citizen for exercising his 1st amendment rights
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Freedom of speech does not include the right to insult freely.
Edit: for the people downvoting, you better read up what freedom of speech actually means, or you will end up in legal trouble. Don’t make yourself a target for no reason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exceptions
The supreme court already decided that insulting is not protected by free speech, whether you like it or not.
You are incorrect. See Lewis v. City of New Orleans
Yes it does you dumbass
Nope, feel free to read yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exceptions
Idk about that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exceptions
I guess it depends on how obscenity is defined.
The law is quite clear about this. Not just in the US.
Watts v United States established that you can literally threaten to kill the president and it's protected by free speech.
The determination is made whether or not the threat can be proven to be true.
If I say I'm going to kill the president and it's proven that 1) I've taken no actual steps toward a plan and 2) I don't have the means to do so anyway - the threat is considered 'untrue'.
I wouldn’t rely on that. Why take such a risk, go through all the extras like questioning, court hearing, maybe even house arrest? Even if you go free, it wouldn’t be worth the effort.