Are We Finally Freed From Hate Speech?

Letter to Romans: How ironic. In the 1960s & 70s liberals arguably led the charge against “hate speech” but today it’s the conservatives carrying the torch. Charlie Kirk’s assassination, like those of JFK, MLK & RFK, serves to remind us all, as did Lincoln, that a House [so] Divided Cannot Stand.

Attorney General Pamela Bondi may have said it best in a recent post & it deserves a full quote here: “Hate speech that crosses the line into threats of violence is NOT protected by the First Amendment. It’s a crime. For far too long, we’ve watched the radical left normalize threats, call for assassinations & cheer on political violence. That era is over. Under 18 USC Sec. 875(c), it is a federal crime to transmit ‘any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another.’ Likewise, 18 USC Sec 876 & 18 USC Sec. 115 make it a felony to threaten public officials, member of Congress, or their families. You cannot call for someone’s murder. You cannot swat a Member of Congress. You cannot dox a conservative family & think it will be brushed off as ‘free speech.’ These acts are punishable crimes & every single threat will be met with the full force of the law.

Liberals & conservatives alike will argue the AG's manifesto is a bad attempt to make up an "exception" to the 1st Amendment that the Supreme Court has rejected. But, on the other hand, the Supremes have never ruled unconstitutional the criminal statutes cited by Bondi & have instead always drawn a clear cut line between protected speech & active incitement to riot, murder & maim political opponents; certainly, death threats have never been called okey dokay. And, if something's changed, it's fair to argue they must now be "clarified" since this is 2025 not 1940 & the power of the Internet & social media to facilitate let alone trigger murder & mayhem is being proven time & time again. As Bondi notes, "Free speech protects ideas, debate, even dissent but it does NOT & will NEVER protect violence. It is clear this violent rhetoric is designed to silence others from voicing conservative ideals ....” Supremes?

Davd Soul