{"id":133727,"date":"2017-06-23T22:55:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T22:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/23\/levels-of-threat.html"},"modified":"2017-06-23T22:55:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T22:55:25","slug":"levels-of-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/23\/levels-of-threat.html","title":{"rendered":"Levels of Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remarks, even joking remarks, about presidential assassination are beyond the Pale, as far as I am concerned. Even about the current president. Political violence is no joking matter, even if for cheap laughs. Normalizing conversation about it is a dangerous path to take. <\/p>\n<p>That said, there is a significant difference between  remarks for applause that deserve social condemnation, and threats that deserve Secret Service investigation. There&#39;s also a difference between talking specifically about the assassination of a given individual, and discussing the broader topic of assassination using an individual as an exemplar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-40379843'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/5l8JCen-4tEI0Ofjy3UJbX_bSpNKh3d5Qhiib2N0NKWM1M6u9S6vEMY-mk9uPxE0ewpewRZBE44TWtiMRrGnrdkcqYTDEj4R=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-40379843'>Johnny Depp on Donald Trump: Crime or free speech? &#8211; BBC News<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIt is a crime to make threats against the US president, so could Johnny Depp run into trouble?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/VrWQLAYGPwA'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remarks, even joking remarks, about presidential assassination are beyond the Pale, as far as I am concerned. Even about the current president. Political violence is no joking matter, even if for cheap laughs. Normalizing conversation about it is a dangerous path to take. That said, there is a significant difference between remarks for applause that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/23\/levels-of-threat.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Levels of Threat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7737,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/24\/i_guess_pat_rob.html","url_meta":{"origin":133727,"position":0},"title":"I guess Pat Robertson is a nice guy after all","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 24-Aug-05 3:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Pat Robertson insists that he was misquoted when he called on the US to go ahead and assassinate Hugo Chavez. 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