Re: Free Speech No Defense for Urging Suicide
Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Mike Findlay <[email protected]>wrote: > With the exception of yelling fire in a crowded theater I'm pretty sure it > is. If you have an example please share it, because I'm drawing a blank at > the moment. > Well, the article said: "Melchert-Dinkel was not merely expressing ideas about suicide The court > finds that defendant's speech imminently incited the victims to commit > suicide, and can be described as 'lethal advocacy,' which is analogous to > the category of unprotected speech known as 'fighting words' and 'imminent > incitement of lawlessness,'" Neuville wrote. So incitement to violence and "incitement of lawlessness" do not appear to be protected. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot