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Re: Threats to Kill, Legal?
There are exceptions to the general rules- such as making an improbable threat against the president would probably earn you an extended stay at hotel Gitmo. Kinda same principle as don't make jokes about bombs at the airport...
But generally speaking- Inciting to riot is pretty much impossible to charge unless in the wake of a riot...
Also generally speaking the most difficult element to prove in an assault like terroristic threat ( as it's called in Texas) is immediacy. For example someone SHOULD kill him does not qualify and would be protected first amendment speech...
If there is violence and it can be directly attributed to a quote (very unlikely) it might be possible for a tort action.
To be criminal it would pretty much need to be a direct immediate reasonably believable threat. Or offer to pay bounty to injure or kill. Etc...
In other words very high and difficult standard for public speech to reach criminal level...
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