For all those cowards - and I do mean cowards - like Juan Williams, Greta Van Susteren, Geraldo Rivera, and Bill O'Reilly, who believe that Pamela Gellar is somehow "responsible" for two lunatics driving at least 1000 miles to attack an art exhibition and cartoon contest, I have one thing to say. Do try to keep up...
The show Gellar put on is not the same as falsely yelling "FIRE!!!" in a crowded theater, despite your clumsy attempts at conflating the two.
In the crowded theater scenario there is a reasonable expectation that people will be harmed as a result of an immediate panic in the theater. The person raising the false alarm is directly responsible for causing the panic and the harm.
In the United States, there is - and this is an important point - NO REASONABLE EXPECTATION that our words and/or expressions will incite someone to violence. You can protest that speech all you want with your own free speech, but the second you cross over into violence, you are the problem, not whatever it was that offended you.
Free speech is free speech. There are no qualifiers. It doesn't matter how offensive the words are, or who those words offend. If you don't understand this, if you don't support this, you couldn't care less about the freedoms upon which this nation was built. ~ Hunter
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