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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
If you truly think that it is a myth, if I was to report your comment to the secret service, I'm sure that Halx would get a call regarding your post. If you are willing to bet your freedom on it, I'm willing to place the call.
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Short of investigating me, what could they do? Probably not much. If they could fine/jail me, then that's a violation of freedom of speech UNLESS the threat was a serious one. They have to take into consideration context of how it was said.
Since I made it in this thread to prove a point, probably not much will happen. If I jokingly said to a friend "Yeah, I wish I could kill the president", not much would happen. They probably investigated the Stern caller because it was made to an audience of millions of people.
What ended up happening to him?
But yeah..
1. I have no criminal record
2. I don't own any weapons, nor do I have access to bombs
3. Does the President even eat Trix? He seems more like an Alphabits type of guy.
4. I could be referring to the president of something else.
Search on google for that phrase or a variation thereof. Have they, or will they, investigate all those people?
There's just so much to take into consideration that it just seems like such a lost cause. If they wanna investigate me, then happy hunting for them. They'll just end up with another dead end lead in their endless pursuit to protect the president from verbal figures of speech. It's utterly ridiculous that that man is protected against saying that, and I don't agree with it.
Why isn't everyone else protected from it? I guess from now on I'll start calling the FBI on everyone who tells me "I'm gonna kill you", jokingly or not and they better investigate just like they would for the president.
Back to the police officer... people say this stuff ALL the time, and if anyone is anal enough to take it literally, then they're retarded... unless, of course, they actually believed he was capable of it.
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And how is it assault? Assault is a physical or verbal act of violence directly to another person. Was the president there with him when he said it? I HIGHLY doubt any judge will find this man guilty of assault because he joked around w/ another person about shooting the president.
And no, I won't test you on it because if, for some strange reason, they actually do investigate me, I don't wanna have to pay any fines or whatever. Instead, I'll just continue my belief in the fact that we no longer truly have freedom of speech
