{"id":44895,"date":"2014-09-03T15:51:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T21:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/free-speech-vs-terrorist-support.html"},"modified":"2014-09-15T14:41:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T20:41:43","slug":"free-speech-vs-terrorist-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/free-speech-vs-terrorist-support.html","title":{"rendered":"Free Speech vs Terrorist Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are the boundaries of Constitutional protection of Free Speech (esp. regarding political topics), vs incitement of and coordination with Evil Terrorists Who Want To Kill Us? And, no, you can&#39;t cop out with a &quot;I&#39;ll know it when I see it?&quot; excuse.<\/p>\n<p>(And, no, I don&#39;t have a clear answer. I&#39;ll know it when I see it. But I&#39;d much prefer to err on the side of Free Speech.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/future_tense\/2014\/09\/mehanna_at_the_supreme_court_is_translating_jihad_texts_a_crime.html'><br \/>\n<img style='display:block;' src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Vwfq4CQc72rxaFZJmUX9iiMjxXk2hvbjdQVwXAPvwx00gvYQQsPIGXCUxMvd3HYGuc6RsuRqULM3ckG8fBfnO9wT8VdGUkgmU7LPDSOFZykKGyOgA2qlvFDY6izBnkQRArw5Yw8Ra3KW8BXKQa2XXKHiMKOpcKQLkBsQHWKV8jZYKpsNlGQWxb1ARVkneHf1Zm9_rhmXdwSsTJhd7qsdMNQ1h50IxjyNzBXYuQ=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\nIs Translating Jihadist Texts on the Internet a Crime?<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nIn the spring of 2005, Tarek Mehanna began translating radical Arabic books and videos into English for the website At Tibyan. The materials had an undeniable flavor of terrorism, encouraging readers to join al-Qaida and kill American soldiers in Iraq. But even the government acknowledges that Mehanna never translated anything&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/HaXMN7bHAZ9'>View on Google+<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the boundaries of Constitutional protection of Free Speech (esp. regarding political topics), vs incitement of and coordination with Evil Terrorists Who Want To Kill Us? And, no, you can&#39;t cop out with a &quot;I&#39;ll know it when I see it?&quot; excuse. (And, no, I don&#39;t have a clear answer. I&#39;ll know it when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/free-speech-vs-terrorist-support.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Free Speech vs Terrorist Support&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[106,350,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-civil-liberties","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133905,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/19\/free-speech-threatening-speech-protest-and-punishment.html","url_meta":{"origin":44895,"position":0},"title":"Free speech, threatening speech, protest, and punishment","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Jul-17 4:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This story caught my eye because I attended a fellow Claremont Colleges campus, Pomona (back when Dinosaurs Walked the Earth), so something happening at Claremont McKenna is of particular interest. I suspect this is an set of issues without bright line resolutions -- the existential need in college communities for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30129,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/07\/clintons-ad-libs.html","url_meta":{"origin":44895,"position":1},"title":"Clinton&#39;s ad-libs","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 7-Sep-12 5:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting comparison between Clinton's official speech and what he actually ended up saying at the DNC. 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