Should Major US Pundits, Politicians be Prosecuted for Incitement to Murder, 'Terrorist Threats'?

[BradBlog]

Should Major US Pundits, Politicians be Prosecuted for Incitement to Murder, 'Terrorist Threats'?
The fine line between advocacy and incitement...

(Update: Related to the story below, one of the victims of the Tucson shooting has been arrested for issuing a threat against Rightwingers at a taping for an ABC News special. It seems incitements by some are taken more seriously than incitements by others. -BF)

Recently, a number of prominent politicians and pundits have called for the violent targeting of other individuals who have been neither accused nor charged with any crimes whatsoever, calling into the question the legality of such incitements to violence.

The focus here is on the thin legal line, unique to the U.S. courtesy of the First Amendment, between advocacy and incitement, and whether some U.S. politicians and pundits may have, at least in the case of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange as they have now charged, crossed that line so as to possibly warrant criminal prosecutions...

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8299

[EFerrari]

1. If you haven't seen this lately, check out Robert Greenwald's compilation

during the McBomb campaign: "Another Man Yells 'Kill Him!' About Obama At Palin Rally" http://abcn.ws/hRaQNV

[fascisthunter]

2. They Should Act and Speak like Professional Representatives

right now they act like a bunch of rich punks who know they will get away with what they are saying. They know what they are doing...

[JuniperLea]

3. And they will keep doing it as long as they get away with it... eom

[jotsy]

4. I believe the criteria for culpability has been met.

Yes.

Warnings about the possibility of this kind of outcome have been ignored or scoffed at; repeatedly.

For me, the biggest first splash of this discussion and what should have ended these tragically conceived tactics was the death of a gynecologist Fixed Noise's original toxic blow hole coined a rhymer designed to incite.

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