The case the phrase is from was about placing limitations on blatantly political speech. It was a truly reprehensible decision. "A unanimous Supreme Court, in

The case the phrase is from was about placing limitations on blatantly political speech. It was a truly reprehensible decision. "A unanimous Supreme Court, in a famous opinion by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., concluded that defendants who distributed leaflets to draft-age men, urging resistance to induction, could be convicted of an attempt to obstruct the draft, a criminal offense." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States From it's very inception, that phrase has been used to justify the restriction of political speech. Nothing has changed since 1917, people still use it to argue against political speech to this day.