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Originally Posted by Malvolio
No you wouldn't. It's not that easy to get into prison.  At first it has to be public. I private you can say whatever you want. And it has to "disturb the public peace". Threats against imaginary Nazis probably would not fall under that. |
I don't know...people can be disturbed surprisingly easily...especially if they're neo-nazis
More seriously, I don't like that the fact that people in general happen to agree with me (and therefore aren't disturbed) somehow legalizes my statements. Popularity shouldn't be a test for deciding whether something legal or illegal.
And if the law is meant to keep the state from being 'destabilized' and 'failing' (I'm pulling from you other post here) then how is it anything other than an attempt by the government to protect it's power by supressing any threatening public ideas?
That kind of tatic might work to help keep the Nazis (or whoever) out of power, but it would work just as well to keep them in.
Is a call for a mass demonstration against the government an incitement of violence? Who gets to decide...the government?
Isn't publically calling the president a dictator or a facist (or "the devil") "inciting hatred"? Who gets to decide?
This just all sounds so very easy to abuse. Even if it works to stop the hate-mongers and racists for now, I don't see any assurance that it couldn't be used, by someone else, to imprison anyone who threatened their power.