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What you show there is what's referred to as harassment. It is generally against the law.
by ratsmack 7y ago
What you show there is what's referred to as harassment. It is generally against the law.
- kick 7y agoSpeech is speech, and in America, it's constitutionally-protected. If they touched him, sure, but they didn't.
- big_chungus 7y agoEnough people yelling persistently at someone could be perceived as threatening. Might you not feel threatened by people surrounding you, yelling at you, and refusing to leave? Getting that close crosses from protesting to intimidating. Notice that Sen. and Mrs. Cruz were having difficulty getting through the protesters to leave.
- kick 7y agoWhat something is perceived as by the recipient doesn't matter (unless the person who perceives yelling as a threat reacts violently, in which case they'll probably lose office/have their business boycotted, anyway, on top of being faced with whether the judge perceives the "threat" to be credible or not) when it comes to speech. It's still speech. Edit: The above poster edited this after I had replied, and everything after the first question mark my comment isn't responding to.