The Obamafia

Politics Turns Dangerously Rougher A Commentary By Tony Blankley

“ The First Amendment also permits a state to ban a "true threat." A true threat encompass those statements where the speaker means to communicate a serious expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence to a particular individual or group of individuals. ("Political Hyperbole" is not a true threat.) The speaker need not actually intend to carry out the threat. Rather, a prohibition on true threats "protect(s) individuals from the fear of violence" and "from the disruption that fear engenders," in addition to protecting people "from the possibility that the threatened violence will occur." Tea Party members could reasonably feel fear of violence from union activists after Hoffa's call to "take out"  [Full]   ”