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snowybirdie

(5,190 posts)
Tue Feb 9, 2021, 04:25 PM Feb 2021

This Mr Castor

Doesn't understand the First Amendment. Said you can say anything without consequences.

Shouting fire in a crowded theater" is a popular analogy for speech or actions made for the principal purpose of creating panic. The phrase is a paraphrasing of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s opinion in the United States Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States in 1919, which held that the defendant's speech in opposition to the draft during World War I was not protected free speech under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. The case was later partially overturned by Brandenburg v. Ohio in 1969, which limited the scope of banned speech to that which would be directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action (e.g. a riot).[1]

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This Mr Castor (Original Post) snowybirdie Feb 2021 OP
Castor: We lose our freedoms if we hold Trumpy accountable for his crimes! FSogol Feb 2021 #1
Does he think he's cute or funny? Think he almost said, "Release the Kraken." sinkingfeeling Feb 2021 #2
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