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John M Atkinson (jatkinso@ANTISPAMgmu.edu) wrote:
: %Some other more gray area types of speech that can and should get you into
: %trouble would be, yelling Fire in a Crowded Movie House, so called
: %"fighting words" and obvious fraud.  These areas can be extremely vague
: %and hard to define.  So I defer to the SLAPS test when I'm not sure

: Quibbles-but qualified.  Fire in a Crowded theater, let's say "Speech that
: endangers lives" same as military secrets.  Fraud-OK, criminal activity.
: Fighting Words, now that's the problem-how do you define them, and why are they
: wrong?

Thats the issue, they're a gray area.  I would argue that you deserve what
you
get if you insite someone to fight.  I'll have to pull out my law texts
and re-read the cases concerning the modus of fighting words.  

: %Serious Literary, Artistic, Political or Scientific value, it doesn't
: %violation (God what a yarn this one is) local community standards for
: %decency as spelled out in specific language in the local applicable law.  

: So, is a conspiracy to commit murder of SLAPS value?

Whats the difference betwen a really good murder mystery and conspiracy to
commit murder - in the eyes of the observer?  (Especially if you're not
sure...)

M. Shinn

(We should start a new thread...)