Top U.S. military officer called Pastor Terry Jones, urged to withdraw support for film

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27. Most of the posts that cite the First Amendment don't ignore the responsibilities

but they make the point that those rights don't mean much if you can be prosecuted for exercising them. Should people exercise their first amendment rights responsibly? Sure. Should the state be free to decide what constitutes reasonable exercise of first amendment rights? Only to the most limited extent possible. The original "fighting words" case held that calling someone a "God-damned racketeer" and a "fascist" wasn't protected speech and the person uttering those words could be arrested. Fortunately, the fighting words doctrine has been narrowed since then, but I would hope you would agree that arresting people for their words, or even for the reaction that their words evoke from others, is dangerous territory.