2007-10-04 19:36:46 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
An example from a classic US Supreme Court case is yelling "Fire" in a crowded movie theater. If you yell fire and all hell breaks loose in the theater, then you are responsible for the aftermath.
Any speech that is "fighting words". You cannot go up to someone and say, "F you Mother F'er, I just F'ed your mom last night. What are you going to do about?" That is considered fighting words. Words that are trying to entice another party into a fight are not protected speech. (sorry for the colorful description, it was how my law prof presented it LOL).
2007-10-04 20:00:06 · answer #1 · answered by John D 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the U.S. Alot of things are becoming unprotected. If I tried bickering with jon kerry I could get tasered, sure argueing is unethical, but its still our right to< unless A call for violence was made.inciting a riot>- an example would be if I got on soap box at walmart and screamed to trash the place. Or if I was trying to coarce someone to harm another individual.< thats legal unprotected speech. also remember more and more speech will be banned in america
2007-10-05 09:09:57 · answer #2 · answered by Mrdude 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In all of Europe it is illegal to say the Nazi's Jewish holocaust is not proved.
In America most react similarly to anyone saying Evolution is not proved, but it is not a law...but denying the holocaust IS against the law in Europe, where it happened.
Nazi leader Hitler was inspired, to do what he did in the 1900's, by the genocide of Armenian Christians in Muslim Turkey in the 1800's.
So Germany has outlawed statements of agnostic-style doubt about BOTH holocausts...Turkey's 1800's genocide as well as 1900's Europe.
Deny either there and you will be arrested! It is considered as bad as shouting "fire" in a crowd in the USA.
It could spark another genocide, which Turkey officially denies even to thus day (and Germany denied until they were conquered and exposed).
2007-10-05 07:46:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I can't. It has to be ALL protected or we're still in the business of censorship. Yes, I know, yelling fire in a crowded theater is bad. I claim though that if anyone is hurt, it falls under 2nd degree murder and that is sufficient. In this, yes, I disagree with the Supreme Court.
2007-10-05 09:15:53 · answer #4 · answered by balloon buster 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In this day and age, it would seem that there is NO speech that is protected. If it isn't prosecuted by the criminal courts it seems to be able to be prosectued by the Civil courts. These are indeed, strange times in our world.
BB,
Raji the Greenwitch
2007-10-05 20:06:09 · answer #5 · answered by Raji the Green Witch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just to add to John D's examples, slander is not protected speech. If you defame someone deliberately (i.e. you told lies about them that damaged their reputation and and it could be shown that these lies had a serious affect on their life and you knew they were lies) that would not be protected either.
2007-10-05 03:17:04 · answer #6 · answered by anotherguy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bong hits 4 Jesus during a school event is not protected.
2007-10-05 04:23:25 · answer #7 · answered by kcroyals77 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋