Encouraging Terrorists is Legal
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"
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"
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Declan McCullagh
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Eric Cordian