Encouraging Terrorists is Legal

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Wed Mar 28 21:38:08 PST 2001


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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