First Amendment free speech protections were written to provide just that.
Joel Send a noteboard - 22/12/2010 06:56:28 AM
and not get caught? Killing someone is easy, getting away which it is harder.
Free speech is not a blanket that covers any and every utterance. You can be fired for making racist or sexual comments. Not just in the private industry but by the government. That is expressing actual political views that which is what free speech is really meant top protect. Since we have already decided you can’t say certain things I don’t have a problem saying you can’t publish manuals on how to make WMD’s from things you bought at Home Depot or on how to rape children.
Free speech is not a blanket that covers any and every utterance. You can be fired for making racist or sexual comments. Not just in the private industry but by the government. That is expressing actual political views that which is what free speech is really meant top protect. Since we have already decided you can’t say certain things I don’t have a problem saying you can’t publish manuals on how to make WMD’s from things you bought at Home Depot or on how to rape children.
I see nothing in the Constitution that says, "only political speech" and I don't think that was just an oversight by the wise and worldly framers. They wrote what they meant, people who knew what it meant approved it by vote and the states then ratified it knowing what it meant as well. You can be fired for expressing political views, but if you're doing it on your own time you can also sue the hell out of the person who fired you; in a recent case of a woman fired for her bumper sticker the only reason her wrongful termination suit failed is because she was parking her car on company property while at work. And it was still incredibly lame, just technicaly legal.
So, yeah, all the how to manuals should be legal, but actively encouraging people to commit crimes should not.
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This should make for an interesting debate
- 21/12/2010 02:19:39 PM
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Free speech. An easy way for me to tell is replace the topic with the word "murder"
- 21/12/2010 02:33:17 PM
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I don't know. Isn't it illegal to write a how to for making a bomb?
- 21/12/2010 02:51:34 PM
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Incitement to racial hatred isn't illegal in the US, I believe...
- 21/12/2010 04:02:58 PM
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I think they are on slippery slope but a fairly firm part up near the top
- 21/12/2010 03:46:58 PM
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What about a textbook, detailing how to make explosives?
- 21/12/2010 04:13:02 PM
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do you want him to be able to pick up a book givining him detailed instructions on how to kill you
- 21/12/2010 05:31:09 PM
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First Amendment free speech protections were written to provide just that.
- 22/12/2010 06:56:28 AM
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As is the case so often of late, impossible to tell as there isn't enough information.
- 21/12/2010 06:33:29 PM
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The guy is gross and disgusting of course, but what is in the book?
- 22/12/2010 01:21:13 AM
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