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Quag said:Fair enough, my point is thread is:
Should The US Make Speech That's Critical or Disparaging of Muhammed a Crime?
And the answer has to be NO a resounding un equivocal NO!
If the thread was "should incitement to violence be a crime" the answer is yes, There are limits on free speech. Yelling fire in a crowded theatre is the famous example people like to use. I do not see insulting someone as incitement to violence but saying so and so doesn't deserve to live and should be massacred ASAP, isn't an insult it is more of a threat and or incitement. Yes labguage can be used in Hyperbole so context has to be regarded. Example watchign a football game and yelling at your side to "rip his head off" (Waterboy refernce) is not really gonna be taken as a serious incitemnt to kill someone.
My original comment in the thread was I also did not, and do not, believe that it should be a crime to disparage Mohammed, Islam, or anything else. I did, however, say there should be a few commonsense exceptions (which would apply evenly to every subject and every person), one of which was incitement to violence. A couple people disagreed that even that should be a crime, and I've been arguing that position.