MikeK
Gold Member
No kidding. When did that start?Because this is America in which our right to free speech is guaranteed by our Constitution. And while the First Amendment doesn't extend the right to verbally incite panic or to issue threats, wishing suffering or death upon someone is not subject to official intervention. And because something might be in poor taste does not make it illegal.I don't believe what he said was a threat, but quite honestly, I think only an idiot says something like that about anyone let alone a President. Whether or not it was an actual threat, and I don't think it was, it is a stupid thing to say. I can't imagine that there are American adults who don't know that it is a crime to threaten the President.
Why on earth would someone risk being mis-understood and take the chance of ending up in prison over a stupid statement?
Immie
"Whomever would make his own liberty secure must guard even his most despised countryman from oppression by government. For if he ignores this sacred duty he thus establishes a precedent which someday will surely reach to himself." (Thomas Paine)
Um, excuse me, but threatening the life of the President is not and never has been considered "Free Speech" just as yelling "Fire!" in a theater is not considered "Free Speech".
Immie