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Originally posted by Mark Wilson
Pat, you are free to yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater as long as you are willing to accept the legal consequenses of causing riot.
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What the young woman did is host an anti-Bush web site. She did not say, in any way, that she thought Bush should be killed.
In a sense, she wrote that she thought people ought to yell fire in a crowded theater (since there is a fire) and discuss the same, to use that nearly always misused example.
The old saw, "fire in a crowded theater" comes from a specific US Supreme Court Justice who voted to uphold the conviction of people who advocated avoiding the draft and passed out leaflets in that regard and were charged during the Wilson regime during World War One. The draft, which was illegal, should have been avoided. As you can see, and now know, it's not appropriate most of the time, and of course the precedent has long since been reversed.