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