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BlackScythe0 posted...

For shouting a word? Yea.

Can't yell fire in a theater. When I'm in a theater and some nut nob stands up and waves his arms and starts yelling I don't care if he is yelling "fire" "allah" or "god". I'm perceiving him as a threat. It's not protected speech. What he did was a crime, just like calling in a bomb threat is not protected speech.

He bears responsibility for his actions, and I'm more troubled by him saying he frequently does this. Fuck him, people aren't paying money to have their movie ruined by his inane ranting.

Comparing shouting "God" to phoning in a bomb threat is the ultimate in intellectually disingenuous arguments. >_>

BlackScythe0 posted...

Well the supreme court disagrees with you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States

If you'd bothered reading your source:

In this opinion, Holmes said that expressions which in the circumstances were intended to result in a crime, and posed a "clear and present danger" of succeeding, could be punished.

Which, again, requires intent. When somebody shouts "fire" in a crowded theater, they're intending to cause a panic. When somebody shouts "god" or any other number of other things, there's no explicit intent to cause panic unless we lived in a nation which believed the Rapture was right around the corner and god was forcibly spiriting people up.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Where outside of the US would this be considered legal?

Pretty much everywhere? You'd still be kicked out of the theater, but most places wouldn't necessarily arrest you for shouting "god." It's weird and it's disruptive, but it's more of a thing that's handled by the establishment than the cops.

slacker03150 posted...

There have been more Christian terrorists than Muslim ones.

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