BULLSHIT. The wheeze that “you can’t shout ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater” in support of limits on speech is total and utter bullshit. For the first thing, the actual quote is “…falsely shout, ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater…” — that initial, qualifying adverb conspicuous in its absence from the overwhelming majority of the assertions I have ever heard. For the second, well… RTWT. Long, but filled with meaty chunks of goodness, and most thoroughly debunks the notion that limits on speech are a good deal farther away from the current, statist position than said statists would like you believe.
(Spotted at Coyote.)
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Anybody who followed my last sentence up there, please explain it to me. Somehow, between composing and posting, my brain has gone into autistic mode.
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