The First Amendment
In the Spocko v. Rodent dust-up, supporters of the Rodent have accused Spocko of attempting to deny the minions of the Rodent their rights of free speech.
To be denied your rights of free speech the government must be involved, as in this Associate Press story, Pa. Man’s Letter Brings Secret Service:
An elderly man who wrote in a letter to the editor about Saddam Hussein’s execution that “they hanged the wrong man” got a visit from Secret Service agents concerned he was threatening President Bush.
The letter by Dan Tilli, 81, was published in Monday’s edition of The Express-Times of Easton, Pa. It ended with the line, “I still believe they hanged the wrong man.”
Tilli said the statement was not a threat. “I didn’t say who _ I could’ve meant (Osama) bin Laden,” he said Friday.
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“He said, ‘Keep writing, but just don’t make no threats,'” Tilli said of one of the agents.
See the difference. Spocko didn’t send armed men from the government to the radio station to warn the announcers to watch their language, as happened in the case of Mr. Tilli.
