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bobbyw24
07-21-2011, 05:31 AM
A La Mesa man who posted racial epithets and a call to “shoot” Barack Obama on an Internet chat site was engaging in constitutionally protected free speech, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in overturning his criminal conviction.

http://documents.latimes.com/usa-v-walter-bagdasarian/

Rael
07-21-2011, 05:42 AM
Obama actually orders people to be assassinated.

bobbyw24
07-21-2011, 06:08 AM
From the opinion:

A Secret Service agent located this posting and the “Obama
fk the niggar” posting on the Yahoo! message board, and, a
week later, Yahoo! provided the Secret Service with subscriber
information for californiaradial@yahoo.com, registered
in La Mesa, California. Yahoo! also provided the Secret
Service with the Internet Protocol history for the “californiaradial”
email account, which Service agents used to identify
the IP address from which the “shoot the nig” and “Obama fk
the niggar” statements were posted. This IP address led the
Service agents to Bagdasarian’s home in La Mesa.

HOLLYWOOD
07-21-2011, 06:25 AM
federal appeals court Why this even had to go to the Appellate court shows you how screwed up the court systems are and how clueless the jurors are on our Constitutional rights.

Imagine the costs incurred policing billions of posts to articles each day?

It all comes down to protecting the state and their puppets above anything else.

fisharmor
07-21-2011, 06:40 AM
The article doesn't say how many years Bagdasarian will be working to pay his legal fees.

It doesn't matter whether they killed or imprisoned him. I'm betting his life is still over. They still win.

osan
07-21-2011, 10:14 AM
The article doesn't say how many years Bagdasarian will be working to pay his legal fees.

It doesn't matter whether they killed or imprisoned him. I'm betting his life is still over. They still win.

Agreed. His hide is as good as toast. Getting sucked in to that system delivers high probability of complete wreckage.

This all brings into question the cost/benefit aspect of bothering with internet activity, particularly where the expression of unpopular opinions and sentiments.

The current environment has put a grand chill on freedom.

We live in shitty times.