seriously, couldn't the NRA ad be considered a threat against the president's daughters?

And the SS should visit those asshole cowards every single day.

the ad will receive that suggestion and the reception of that suggestion will vary from relatively weak, and subject to counter influence, up to the maximum strength of such a suggestion. These theoretical probabilities are referred to as a normal distribution (a theoretical entity, a.k.a. the Bell Curve, based upon numbers of exposures to, roughly, an "independent variable") and it is what all advertising is built upon and why so much money is spent upon mass-marketing.

There is almost never just one interpretation of an event, no matter what the NRA says, and as history has shown us time and time again, especially in the case of the kind of violence we are talking about here, even, relatively speaking, only a few maximally suggestible people can have enormous effects.

though the Secret Service has considerable discretion in how they do business

I don't think so.

Others in the thread said it was a real threat I disagreed

I don't get to use that phrase often

Any legal case based on the ad should be giggled out of court on First Amendment grounds.

Is equating Obama with Hitler treasonous?


http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022211650

When does hate speech cross the line?
When it is made with the intent to incite imminent lawless action, and is likely to incite imminent lawless action. The standard is very strict in practice. For example, merely saying "If they drafted me, the first man I'd want in my sights is the President" is protected speech.

Is equating Obama with Hitler treasonous?
Not under American law.