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Fascist paramilitary thug threatens to arrest US citizen for exercising his 1st amendment rights (cdn.social.linux.pizza)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by CubitOom@infosec.pub to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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[+] earmuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

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[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Watts v United States established that you can literally threaten to kill the president and it's protected by free speech.

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[+] earmuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

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[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

The determination is made whether or not the threat can be proven to be true.

If I say I'm going to kill the president and it's proven that 1) I've taken no actual steps toward a plan and 2) I don't have the means to do so anyway - the threat is considered 'untrue'.

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[+] earmuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 2 weeks ago

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