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Started by Sheilbh, August 16, 2009, 07:10:03 AM

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Sheilbh

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on August 17, 2009, 09:13:56 AM
The line between free speech and unlawful incitement can be blurry, but this conduct seems pretty safely on the unlawful side of that line.
I agree.  Why is that though?  Is it just the threat or more the map?  Or is incitement like porn?
Let's bomb Russia!

DontSayBanana

Quote from: Sheilbh on August 17, 2009, 09:19:53 AM
I agree.  Why is that though?  Is it just the threat or more the map?  Or is incitement like porn?
The map. The map shows consideration and pretty much discounts the possibility that it was an insult in the heat of the moment.
Experience bij!

The Minsky Moment

Quote from: Sheilbh on August 17, 2009, 09:19:53 AM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on August 17, 2009, 09:13:56 AM
The line between free speech and unlawful incitement can be blurry, but this conduct seems pretty safely on the unlawful side of that line.
I agree.  Why is that though?  Is it just the threat or more the map?  Or is incitement like porn?

The threat is concrete, detailed, targeted at particular individuals, and provides specific directions for the commission of illegal acts. 
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

KRonn

A while ago, I think the 70s or 80s, the KKK (a certain branch, I think in one state mainly) was hit hard, several of its leaders tried and found guilty, for incitements to violence in its literature where others acted on the message. I'm not sure of the details, but the court found that the KKK had responsibility since others acted on their words; something like that. Then it also turned out that the mother/family of a murdered young black man got the properties and cash settlements from the KKK in lawsuit.

MadImmortalMan

I blame repressed homosexual urges. He should just come out.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

BuddhaRhubarb

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on August 17, 2009, 09:43:39 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on August 17, 2009, 09:19:53 AM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on August 17, 2009, 09:13:56 AM
The line between free speech and unlawful incitement can be blurry, but this conduct seems pretty safely on the unlawful side of that line.
I agree.  Why is that though?  Is it just the threat or more the map?  Or is incitement like porn?

The threat is concrete, detailed, targeted at particular individuals, and provides specific directions for the commission of illegal acts. 

yeah see that's what I was thinking... it's crossing a pretty easy to see line. Anyone with an IQ higher than 80 ought to be able to see that. So most of the blogosphere would take it seriously I guess.
:p

garbon

Quote from: Grallon on August 16, 2009, 10:18:31 AM
There, I corrected it for you.  I don't think anywhere else is armed violence so mythologized as it is in the States.  And that absurd paranoia about the state and government... :rolleyes:

G.

Stop reading Pravda, kthx?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Viking

First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Sheilbh

Quote from: garbon on August 17, 2009, 11:47:02 AM
Stop reading Pravda, kthx?
I don't know, I think Grallon's right to some extent.  The US has glorified individual violence and, in a different way, revolt against the state over its history.  Those are part of its national myths.  I think it's like saying that someone observing that France has glorified revolution  and street violence should stop reading the National Review.  I think it's true.
Let's bomb Russia!

garbon

Quote from: Sheilbh on August 17, 2009, 12:09:41 PM
I don't know, I think Grallon's right to some extent.  The US has glorified individual violence and, in a different way, revolt against the state over its history.  Those are part of its national myths.  I think it's like saying that someone observing that France has glorified revolution  and street violence should stop reading the National Review.  I think it's true.

True. I've weekly meetings with a pro-anarchy group based in Palo Alto. We're considering a move on the SF Armory.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Viking

Quote from: garbon on August 17, 2009, 12:14:04 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on August 17, 2009, 12:09:41 PM
I don't know, I think Grallon's right to some extent.  The US has glorified individual violence and, in a different way, revolt against the state over its history.  Those are part of its national myths.  I think it's like saying that someone observing that France has glorified revolution  and street violence should stop reading the National Review.  I think it's true.

True. I've weekly meetings with a pro-anarchy group based in Palo Alto. We're considering a move on the SF Armory.

Organized anachists?
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

garbon

Quote from: Viking on August 17, 2009, 12:15:13 PM
Organized anachists?

Oh not really. Several of us want to start up Helter Skelter in Los Angeles, few want to beat up cops in Oakland and a few just want to go chill at Burning Man. :Embarrass:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Sheilbh

Quote from: garbon on August 17, 2009, 12:14:04 PM
True. I've weekly meetings with a pro-anarchy group based in Palo Alto. We're considering a move on the SF Armory.
A national myth and the glorification of specific aspects of history doesn't mean that you've organised groups running round trying to re-enact it.  I'm saying the Jacobins are part of the soul of France not that they're still meeting in an old Monastery.  Similarly I think the US's national myth has a glorification of the individual/individualism as a shaping force in history and in revolt against the state, not that you go to meet pro-anarchy groups.
Let's bomb Russia!

garbon

Quote from: Sheilbh on August 17, 2009, 12:21:43 PM
A national myth and the glorification of specific aspects of history doesn't mean that you've organised groups running round trying to re-enact it.  I'm saying the Jacobins are part of the soul of France not that they're still meeting in an old Monastery.  Similarly I think the US's national myth has a glorification of the individual/individualism as a shaping force in history and in revolt against the state, not that you go to meet pro-anarchy groups.

What effect would you say that this myth has?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

dps

Quote from: Viking on August 17, 2009, 12:15:13 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 17, 2009, 12:14:04 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on August 17, 2009, 12:09:41 PM
I don't know, I think Grallon's right to some extent.  The US has glorified individual violence and, in a different way, revolt against the state over its history.  Those are part of its national myths.  I think it's like saying that someone observing that France has glorified revolution  and street violence should stop reading the National Review.  I think it's true.

True. I've weekly meetings with a pro-anarchy group based in Palo Alto. We're considering a move on the SF Armory.

Organized anachists?

Spanish Civil War veterens, maybe?  :D