re: #98 ggt

couldn’t book burning in this case be an act of instigation or even terrorism?

Like yelling fire in a burning theatre?

I think this idiot knew the probably outcome and burned the book knowing people would be injured or killed.

The ‘fire in a theater’ test is based on the idea that it will cause immediate panic, and hence, probable injury or death.

I do not think there’s any positive way to extend control on someone’s First Amendment rights to the extent that they can’t do something legal that might piss off someone seven thousand miles away, and cause them to commit a crime.

And yes, I think that Jones probably knew what the result would be, unless he thought everyone who told him what the result would be was lying to him. And yes, I think that blood is on his hands, in some degree, as well as on the hand of those who actually took lives.

But I think God, rather than a U.S. court, is going to have to judge that sort of thing. We can’t restrict speech on the grounds that people will kill over it.