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Showing Original Post only (View all)Incitement to Riot is not protected "free speech" [View all]
...nor is it a core American value. Someone might inform Mr. Romney of that!
Having watched Romney's little speech to the press, as well as the miserable piece of video that led to Ambassador Stevens murder, there's not much more to say. I hope they prosecute the whole mess from both ends, and quickly.
For the record - editing this a day after posting, sometimes it helps to think a thing through "in public", so to speak, and the comments here lead me to think that I was wrong and that "incitement to riot" doesn't apply to the films. They deserve contempt and obscurity, but free speech applies nevertheless.
I think my first mistake was looking at a RW site where they posted the pictures of Stevens, at the point where he had been pulled from the building unconscious and was being carried through the streets in the rush to a hospital. Heartbreaking images cloud reason.