Encouraging Terrorists is Legal

2001-03-28 Thread Eric Cordian

A US Federal Appeals Court has tossed out the $109 million verdict against
anti-abortion activists who ran a website called "The Nuremberg Files",
which listed the personal information of abortion doctors, and cheered
whenever one of them was killed.
 
The Judge opined that as long as the defendants didn't threaten to commit
violent acts, working alone or with others, that their conduct constituted
protected First Amendment Free Speech.
 
Specifically, speech which only "encourages unrelated terrorists" is First
Amendment protected.
 
Now what was it Jim Bell threatened to do with those pigfucker names and
addresses again?

-- 
Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"




Re: Encouraging Terrorists is Legal

2001-03-28 Thread Declan McCullagh

In fact, Jim was quoted as saying -- I'm watching what I type since
the Feds appear to be watching this list and chatting among themselves
and other folks involved in this case about what is posted -- that
he explicitly was *not* going to violate the law.

-Declan


On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:33:08PM -0800, Eric Cordian wrote:
 A US Federal Appeals Court has tossed out the $109 million verdict against
 anti-abortion activists who ran a website called "The Nuremberg Files",
 which listed the personal information of abortion doctors, and cheered
 whenever one of them was killed.
  
 The Judge opined that as long as the defendants didn't threaten to commit
 violent acts, working alone or with others, that their conduct constituted
 protected First Amendment Free Speech.
  
 Specifically, speech which only "encourages unrelated terrorists" is First
 Amendment protected.
  
 Now what was it Jim Bell threatened to do with those pigfucker names and
 addresses again?
 
 -- 
 Eric Michael Cordian 0+
 O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
 "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"