Before attending a gun rights rally at Freedom Farms in Ionia Township, Kyle Rittenhouse spoke at a ticketed-only event Wednesday, July 19, at Pottawattomie Park.
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unpopular speech in mind.
That is, they wanted to specifically protect speech that wasn’t common, wasn’t popular, and could even be considered revolutionary in a literal sense of the world.
They also had protecting criticism of the government uppermost in their minds. That’s because they had just spent more than a decade fighting a tyrannical British monarchy headed by a king that did not permit such speech and in fact, punished those who criticized him and the Crown in general.
But in recent decades, so-called “hate speech” laws have made a mockery of the First Amendment’s speech protections. Words and phrases that political apparatchiks and authoritarians in government have ‘deemed’ as ‘harmful’ or ‘hurtful’ have been criminalized under such laws, with real consequences for people found to have violated those speech codes.
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A college student in Michigan who posted a picture of a semi-automatic rifle lost an appeal to drop the terrorist threat charge he faces.
Lucas Gerhard, a student at Lake Superior State University in Michigan s Upper Peninsula, can be charged for posting a Snapchat story of an AR-15 accompanied by an offensive caption, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled June 24. Takin this bad boy up, this outta make the snowflakes melt, aye? And I mean snowflakes as in snow [winky face emoji], Gerhard wrote in the Aug. 22, 2019 post, referencing his plans to bring his gun with him to college.
After Gerhard made the post, two Lake Superior State students alerted the public safety department. The university allows students to bring firearms to school so long as they are registered with the campus police. When Gerhard went to register his gun the next morning, he was questioned by security.