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To: Lost1 who wrote (626)	9/10/2002 10:21:15 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7689

No one has the "right" to advocate terrorism....

To: Lost1 who wrote (626)	9/10/2002 12:44:11 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 7689

Lost1, One of the things that First Amendment scholars have long struggled with is how to deal with the "freedom" to incite violence, and when something is "merely" an opinion and when it goes beyond that. The things you mention in your response are all valid points. If Ray said them, many would agree, some would disagree. But what he said was this: "The best way to end America's run as a republic and move up to being a full-blown and heinous empire is to blow up the Capitol with a "dirty nuke" on October 15." The First Amendment protects my right to express the opinion that Bush is bad (or good or in between). It protects my right to say the same about Daschle or Gingrich or Colin Powell or Dolly Parton. But I am not convinced it protects my "right" to say that Bush should be physically harmed, or Congress should be blown up by a dirty nuke. In fact, I think it doesn't protect my right to say that. If you read what RD wrote in that sentence, perhaps he was not advocating that Congress be blown up. Perhaps he was saying that something of that proportion, if it were to happen, would cause a reaction which would cause America to become more inclined to project power around the globe in a more imperialistic manner ("a full-blown and heinous empire"). Online communications, particularly when they are inarticulate as RD's have clearly become of late, can easily be misconstrued. But I have to say, that post of his gave me the creeps, and if the authorities investigate and monitor his activities I for one will not be upset about it.