DA> I sense a very large double standard in this.  The left has been
 Perhaps I'm missing something, but I see no double standard.  AAMOF,
 it's wonderfully consistant...
 DA> denouncing so-called "hate speech" by the right for years now. If
 DA> someone on the right had said "Let's kill so-and-so" where
 DA> so-and-so was a left-wing politician, would the ACLU have come to
 DA> their defense?
 DA> In fact, the 1994 Crime Act makes it a federal felony against a
 DA> speaker if a listener actually commits a violent crime after
 DA> hearing the so-called "incitement."
 ...and now it's a bad law that is coming around to bite him on his ass.
 DA> After hearing the left whine and cry about Limbaugh and Liddy and
 DA> other rightist talkers, who do not advocate violence, this
 DA> coddling of a leftist who *did* encourage violence is very
 DA> offensive to me.
 While it's emotionally satisfying to see any statist get what's coming
 to him...I still have to come back to the basic premise.  IOW, there
 being no credible threat, what harm has this person caused?
 Since the threat isn't credible, since there's been no harm is it a
 _good_ thing that he's being prosecuted?  Or persecuted?
 To quote:
 
Ä Area: GUNS 
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  Msg#: 522                                          Date: 10 Jun 96  
3:24:00
  From: Dave Appel                                   Read: Yes    Replied: No 
    To: Steve Elliott                                Mark:                    
 
  Subj: carry extra ammo?
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The police fall back on the position of "no harm = no foul,"  so until
someone is hurt or property is damaged, they don't make an arrest.
 End quote.
 Isn't that a better concept than prosecuting persons for speech?
 Now in the situation you describe in the post I've quoted from (above),
 was that threat credible?  Would a reasonable person have believed
 himself in immediate danger?
 Physical proximity, the individual being armed, (even if "only" a rock)
 and the stated threat to others' person(s)...well, you may have laws
 that make it illegal to do anything, but you're welcome to give him my
 address.
 He'll stop bothering you.
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