Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi is as sharp as a tack. The Democratic Party should keep her as their leader. Whatever strategy Nancy Pelosi lays out for 2018, the Democrats should follow.
Can you detect my sarcasm? Because Mrs. Pelosi just made a huge fool of herself.
The former House Speaker was trying to sound smart by saying in an interview that the Constitution doesn’t make it lawful to yell “wolf” in a crowded theater.
I think the term is “fire,” but I won’t hog this moment to make fun of Pelosi.
This is one slip-up too many. Clearly, Pelosi is losing it. It may be time to retire.
Source: Daily Caller
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appeared confused in an interview this week about what kind of speech is protected by the U.S. Constitution.
“The Constitution does not say that a person can shout…yell ‘wolf’ in a crowded theater. If you are endangering people, then you don’t have a constitutional right to do that,” Pelosi said in an interview on Wednesday with San Francisco TV station KRON.
The Democrat seemingly meant to paraphrase an opinion written by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in the landmark free speech case, Schenck v. United States (1919).
“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic,” Holmes wrote in his opinion.
We assume she meant “fire” and not “wolf.” Yelling fire in a crowded theater is not free speech. The First Amendment does not apply to dangerous speech. However, hate speech is indeed covered by the First Amendment. After Charlottesville, liberals like Pelosi have been trying to ban hate speech. This was clearly some convoluted verbal reasoning by Pelosi, trying to justify a crackdown on speech she disagrees with.
Actually, if you read Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s famous decision, he says you CAN yell “fire” in a crowded theater, if there is really a fire. Specifically, he said you cannot falsely shout “fire” in a crowded theater. In other words, you can state the truth, no matter how offensive. You just cannot incite panic or a riot without justification. The case was not about hate speech, but about inciting people to commit a crime.
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