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Sunday, December 14, 2014

Today's Survey Question 12-8-14

SPEECH THAT ENCOURAGES OTHERS TO ACT VIOLENTLY SHOULD BE...

A... CRIMINALIZED
B... CONDEMNED, BUT NOT CRIMINALIZED
C... NEITHER CRIMINALIZED NOR CONDEMNED

14 comments:

Jack K Richards said...

Definitely A Especially when violence is suggested

Claudia Balzac said...

Criminalized. As a hate crime if it promotes violence towards another race or preference.

Anonymous said...

I thought the law was already on the books
INCITING A RIOT? DISTURBING THE PEACE? THREAT OF ARSON? DISOBEYING A LAWFUL ORDER?

Anonymous said...

Doesn't matter if like the rest of the laws they are selectively enforced.

Anonymous said...

A A A A - get the picture - a violation of my rights to assemble if they are inciting violence.

Anonymous said...

A, since D...deported is not on the list.

keysman45@yahoo.com said...

Definitely A... inciting violence should be a crime punishable with jail time

Bob said...

C. Theoretically, you could take comments on here as speech that encourages others to act violently ("lock and load", "If someone is on your property, shoot them on sight" etc).

Free speech should be protected. The only way to change the first amendment is with, you guessed it, another amendment.

We should focus on prosecuting those who actually act on words, as these are the real problem with society.

Anonymous said...

B. Freedom of speech is basic and a first amendment right. If others choose to act violently after hearing speech, then the violent person has committed the crime, and should be arrested.

But lying to someone in order to create a desired reaction in another person is a malicious act and is a crime, but it is still incumbent on that person to check the facts before acting out.

Anonymous said...

C...make people responsible for the actions they take - thinking and speaking should be covered under free speech!

bloggerhater1 said...

B - because no matter what i say to you, you should be responsible for your own actions.

Anonymous said...

I see the free speech angle.
Think about this-Bid Laden. He wasn't guilty of actually killing anyone on US soil but it was his speech that prompted others to perform acts of terrorism in the US. Obama gave the okay to have Bin Laden executed.

Anonymous said...

To the liberal idiots who answered A, do you know what freedom of speech is?

lmclain said...

2:05....a bit disingenuous.
He planned, provided material support, and issued commands and directives that saw direct fruition in the 9/11 attacks.
It was hardly his "speech" that got him killed. It was his actions.
"B" is the correct answer.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams would say that when the acting authority will not accede to reason, peaceful protests and mean editorials in attempts to redress grievances, then they (the authorities) must be subjected to ever more forceful means of persuasion, lest they believe that all they must endure is the short-term pain of exposure and censure.
That's where the Second Amendment comes into play --- the ability of "We, the people" to BE violent and to incite violence.
THAT'S what keeps our government from going all-out in whatever they like or deem "necessary" --- the ever-present risk of armed and violent rejection.
Jefferson himself said the same thing.
But --- I DO recognize that, today, there are MILLIONS of sheep much, much smarter and wiser than he could have ever been.
That's how we got to where we are now.
Keep cheering.