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Originally Posted by kennyc
Harry you are confusing Laws and Consequences of actions.
There is NO LAW preventing you from yelling Fire or saing I'm going to Kill the president. If you do it you may be arrested for other reasons, but but not because you said it. It is NOT illegal to Say it.
You cannot be arrested for yelling Fire. You can be arrested for causing a disturbance and for manslaughter when people are trampled due to your actions.
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Sorry, Kenny, but that sounds like sophistry to me. Yes, if you said "I am going to kill the President" you would probably be arrested on a charge of "threatening behaviour", or something like that, but it is the speech which
is the threat.