PN>Vern was returning fire at Paul
PN> about threat on Leslie
PN> PN> PN>        My non-lawyer opinion is that while nasty, this is 
obviously
PN> PN> PN>nowhere near a "true threat", and I wonder if calling it a "death 
th
PN> PN> DA> Sounded like a death threat to me.  His mealy-mouthed
PN> VH> My take is that there's a BIG difference between a threat expressed
PN> VH> DIRECTLY to a person, at close range, and a generalized ranting on 
he
PN> VH> electronic highway to the world in general.
PN> As I've said, this is my take too.  There's a whole bunch of behaviors
PN> out there that have been criminalized that cause no harm.  The net
PN> result is that more laws get ignored, which causes more contempt for
PN> law, so more laws get ignored...
Perfectly true -- and as we used to say "Sticks and stones will break my
bones, but words will never hurt me."
Let the nutcase rattle on -- he won't hurt anyone, and prosecuting him
just does more damage to the rights of the rest of us.
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