Reply #34: I can't believe what I'm reading here

[Xithras]

Are you people kidding me? What he said is perfectly legal in the US...there's a world of legal difference between saying that someone SHOULD be dead, and actually threatening to kill them. What Robertson said was idiotic, but not illegal.

To support his extradition is basically supporting the idea that American citizens within the US can be prosecuted for breaking the laws of countries they've never visited. I don't really give a damn if what he said is illegal in Venezuela, because it's perfectly legal here. If he'd travelled to Venezuela and said it, the story would be different...but he didn't.

Folks, if this flies, we should all run and hide...we're all breaking the laws of at least a dozen countries just by discussing politics on the Internet. Our support of minority parties and opposition to our government violates the laws of at least a dozen more, and will get us executed in China.

Within the borders of the United States, the only laws that matter are our own.