Very, very small figure of speech. It will result in a reflex of violence. There is no time for anything but a response. The only option is it put the cuffs on the guy before he lands a punch. And we were talking about incitement and true threats. There is so much more time for the Law Enforcement inquiry. There are options other than immediately cuffing the person. And because it involves a much broad broader category of speech, its important to have inquiry into what the intent was. You know, basically, under the government standard, any speech that uses forceful language on rhetoric could be at risk. Somebody who in ferguson moshgs month, the night of the riots tweeted a photo of Law Enforcement officers over the motto, the old motto the tree of liberty must be flesh with the blood of tyrants. I mean would a reasonable person foresee that is viewed as a threat about it Police Officers . Again, i wouldnt want, you know, have a felony conviction against it. This is valuable First Amen
Under your test koshgs than prosecuted . Because eminem said it at a concert where people are entertained. Its not whether he said it private or on a Facebook Page after receiving protection if abuse order. Its not as though he appropriated a style of wrap that hes been doing previously and then tried to express violent statements that way. In the context, any reasonable person would conclude at a minimum that is there is ambiguities about the statements being a serious intention of an expression to do harm. This is critical here. Were talking about an area if the jury finds its ambiguous, it has to acquit. This is how the statements should be interpreted. Yes, but youre dealing with very inflamatory language. The question is whether or not the xwlr is going to be swept away with the language as opp e opposed to making the subtle determinations youre talking about. There are two protection theres. The government has to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. That is subject to appell
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This morning, we are asking you what you think about that 1 trillion budget spending plan. Give us a call. The numbers are on the screen. Also contact us through twitter, facebook, or email. If you havent had a chance to read that 1600 budget 1600 page budget, we will do our best to break it down for you over the next two hours ahead of the action on the house floor expected on that bill. Here is the front page of the Washington Times membersculation about of congress and what happens today and a few others with the spending bill. If you want to talk about what is specifically in that bill, turned to the front page of the Washington Post today with the graphic epics it down. That breaks it down. It does not include entitlements like Social Security or medicare. What it does include is defense spending and nondefense spending. Washington post highlighting some of that spending. And for more on that, we are joined by ed okeefe, the congressional reporter at Washington Post. Think you for
Training and readiness. Lets take an air base. At an airbase, the air bases are open. They have guards at the gate. They have people in the tower. They have people in the fire truck. The lights are on. Were spending the money for all that. Where can you stop spending money quickly . Painting the buildings. Mow the lawn less often. That kind of thing. Importantly, you stop training. When you stop training, you have stopped readiness. We are protecting those in as we know are going to afghanistan and would be in a fight tonight on the Korean Peninsula if god forbid we ever had a wart on the Korean Peninsula. Were trying to protect the units most likely to find themselves in combat. For the others, we cannot afford to train them. That is risky because if something happens, those units will not be fully ready. Then we get to the civilian personnel part of a week ago, furloughs began for many of our civilians. Were far from washington, but our civilians live all over the country. They are n