| Thanks for your comments. It is a crime to plan a crime because it helps prevent the crime. If someone playfully yells, “there’s a bomb!” at a concert and dozens of people get trampled to death that is criminal behavior. If no one gets hurt, it is still criminal behavior. I absolutely want to be protected against potential crime because after my death, it is too late.
I think conspiring to harm other people, directly or indirectly, is rightly a criminal offense and free speech has nothing to do with it. It should be a criminal act to plan the violent destruction of your host country (within whatever country you are standing inside at the time).
I suppose if he told someone to go be a cook for the Taliban army maybe that would mitigate his abuse of free speech. Maybe knock a few years off – especially if it were a particularly bad cook who followed his advice.
Did Jim Jones commit a crime when he told his followers to drink poison? Or only after they drank it? |