Reply #34: But that's just it, he didn't DO that. [View All]

[Xithras]

Look up his exact quote, and you'll see that his statement basically boils down to "someone should kill Chavez". Legally, that does NOT meet the definition of a threat or incitement. People have been saying the same thing about Mugabe and Saddam for years, and it's a perfectly legal opinion to hold.

We are perfectly free to believe that the world would be a better place if certain people were deleted from it, and 99% of DUers would agree with that if you inserted the proper person and phrased it correctly. Holding, and stating, that opinion is NOT illegal unless it's phrased as a direct threat, or is stated to a group as a command to do it.

Distasteful as it may be, what Robertson said was legal.