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The Court noted, among other things, that the threat suggested that other people, not the writer, would kill the President, and did not threaten to do anything himself in the message. You Will Die too George W Bush real Soon They Promissed That you would Long Live BIN LADEN. You will see a good Job Done agin may 2 week's, maybe 2 months, 3, who know's. President Goerge W Bush you think cause you go over There and Blow Them up that The killing will Stop in you Dream They got over 275,800 or more since, Never mind that this is only the Beging of the Badass war To come Just think Their army is over here already hiding They have more Posion gas Then you know. Lincoln: The Ninth Circuit overturned another conviction for threatening a President, this time President Bush. Bagdasarian had posted this sort of rhetoric to a Yahoo! Finance board, possibly trying to class up the joint: 'Re: Obama fk the niggar, he will have a 50 cal in the head soon' and “shoot the nig country fkd for another 4 years+, what nig has done ANYTHING right? long term? never in history, except sambos.” The court found insufficient evidence of under both the objective and subjective tests, noting that the incoherent threats were on an internet bulletin board, and suggesting that made them less likely to be taken seriously. Bagdasarian, quoted above: In 2011, the Ninth Circuit overturned a conviction for threatening President Obama.

The defendant, speaking out against the draft, said 'If they ever make me carry a rifle the first man I want to get in my sights is L.B.J.' The Supreme Court held that this was not a true threat, given its political nature, the reaction of the listeners, and the expressly contingent nature of the threat. United States: The seminal case, from 1969. Here's some examples of how the courts have come out: Under this test, not every discussion of violence towards the President is a 'true threat' some discussions are hyperbole protected by the First Amendment. Ultimately whether one test or the other or both applies may depend on the particular threat statute at issue.

The second is that the defendant intended that the statement be understood as a threat. Intent to kill or injure a major candidate for President. The first is that the statement would be understood by people hearing or reading it in context as a serious expression of an Two elements must be met for a statement to constitute an offense under 18 U.S.C. The Ninth Circuit recently discussed the distinction: The only remaining dispute is whether the test for a true threat is objective or subjective, or both - in other words, whether the test is 'the speaker must intend the threat to be taken seriously' or 'a reasonable listener would take the threat seriously,' or both. In short: true threats are criminal, but stupid violent rhetoric often is not criminal. In the wake of the douchetastic reactions to the election highlighted by Jezebel and others, there's been talk - including from people who ought to know better - suggesting that certain rhetoric about President Obama has been criminal, and that people venting on Twitter should get visits from the Secret Service. Instead, I want to turn to a related issue: invective about the President (or any other officials) and true threats.

There are arguments on both sides you could write a thoughtful post about it.

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Second, while I generally think that adults who act like dicks don't have a right to be free from being viewed as dicks, I also think one could question whether it is just or proportional to out minors for dickish conduct.

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First, I have to ask whether Jezebel and its imitators are simply perpetuating the tiresome ploy of 'identify a few Twitter idiots, emphasize them and imply they fairly represent the entire other side.' That seems to be treading on Twichy's patch and stealing the bread from its dully gaping, moves-when-it-reads mouth.

There are two issues of culture, prudence, and ethics at hand. At least one blog has since emerged collecting such outing of racist assholes. Jezebel's follow-up follow-up suggests a classic trolling pattern - do something controversial (in this case, out minors for racism), collect outraged responses, mock the most extreme of the responses. Last week Jezebel successfully attracted attention by finding racist Twitter reactions to President Obama's reelection posted by high school students, tracking the students down, and outing them.