Monday, February 22, 2010

Threatening poetry ...

... Louisville man charged with threatening to kill president in poem. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

Testing the limits of the First Amendment, federal prosecutors have charged a Louisville man with threatening to kill the president based on a poem he wrote and recently re-posted on a neo-Nazi Web site.

I'm no constitutional lawyer, but neither am I sure that threats like this ought to be protected speech. Then again, didn't Nicholson Baker write a novel that had something to do with assassinating President Bush?

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