Vern was returning fire at Paul 
 about threat on Leslie 
 PN> PN>        My non-lawyer opinion is that while nasty, this is obviously
 PN> PN>nowhere near a "true threat", and I wonder if calling it a "death 
threat
 PN> DA> Sounded like a death threat to me.  His mealy-mouthed
 VH> My take is that there's a BIG difference between a threat expressed
 VH> DIRECTLY to a person, at close range, and a generalized ranting on the
 VH> electronic highway to the world in general.
 As I've said, this is my take too.  There's a whole bunch of behaviors
 out there that have been criminalized that cause no harm.  The net
 result is that more laws get ignored, which causes more contempt for
 law, so more laws get ignored...
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