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Calls for violence are legal in the United States.

• TJSomething 4y ago
  The specific thing that is illegal is "incitement to imminent lawless action", which is distinguished from advocacy for violent principles.
  • stevenicr 4y ago
    Is it really though? If so, then more than half the rappers would of been locked up for this by now. I suppose who ever put such a law in US court system is holding their breath for the guy who got on International TV / web streaming / a huge crowd of people in Ferguson (?) and said 'burn this bitch down' - burn this mutherfucker down.. [1] I dunno, maybe he was arrested for this and it is a real thing, if so I missed the news about it. Or maybe it's technically possible to have to go to court for such a thing, but maybe only a few ever have, and the outcome of such a thing is anyone's guess, even those really into speech law [2] [1] - https://www.cnn.com/2014/11/25/us/michael-brown-stepfather-video https://www.cnn.com/2014/11/25/us/michael-brown-stepfather-v... [2] - Imminent lawless action test still being fleshed out - https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/970/incitement-to-imminent-lawless-action https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/970/incitement-...
  • not_a_shill 4y ago
    >While law enforcement in these areas are working to investigate what we and others reported, unfortunately the process is moving more slowly than the escalating risk. I wonder if their evaluation of the "escalating risk" had anything to do with the legal standard of imminent action is. Probably not.