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In reply to the discussion: The Limits of Free Speech [View all]COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)And Sandra Day's dicta notwithstanding, how do you get to a "serious expression of 1) an intent (and that's the key word here to commit 2) an act of unlawful violence-
What proof of "serious intent to commit" an act of unlawful violence?
What "act of violence" was actually being threatened?
Where do you find a serious intent of anything from a couple of drunk 19 year olds singing a stupid, racist fraternity ditty? And, what was the "act of unlawful violence - specifically - that these two were intended to commit then and there on a particular group of individuals?
Those are key facts must proved in order to even get to the threshold of punishing otherwise protected speech. And I at least have seen absolutely zero facts that prove either of these two conditions