First of all, let's dispense with the absolute nonsense about the "yelling fire in a crowded theater" BS that libtards like to publicly trot out every time they have a beef with The U.S. Constitution's limitations on government power. This is just downright childish and false on its face.
LIAR IN CHIEF: Biden Repeats False ‘You Can’t Yell Fire In A Crowded Theater’ Claim
Biden lies about free speech by invoking 102-year-old overturned Supreme Court case
http://nationalfile.com/liar-in-chief-biden-repeats-false-you-cant-yell-fire-in-a-crowded-theater-claim/
During Wednesday night’s national address, President Joe Biden repeated his oft-debunked claim that that "no amendment to the Constitution is absolute” while making an argument against gun rights, and went to lie about the Supreme Court’s stance on free speech, claiming “you can’t yell fire in a crowded theater."
"No amendment to the constitution is absolute,” Biden said after making an appeal to restrict gun rights. “You can’t yell ‘fire’ in a crowded theater. From the very beginning, there were certain guns, weapons, that could not be owned by Americans."
Biden is not only incorrect about firearms restrictions, which did not exist even for military cannon and warships at the country’s founding, but the “fire in a crowded theater” metaphor he invokes so often is also completely false.
The saying comes from remarks made over a hundred years ago in 1919 by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in the case Schenk v. United States, during which the court incorrectly ruled that advocating against the draft was not free speech.
The Court’s ruling is widely interpreted as one of the worst ever in U.S. history, and was effectively overturned in the landmark 1969 case Brandenburg v. Ohio.
Yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater has been ruled protected speech for over half a century, but that has not prevented Biden from repeating the false claim on many occasions.
Biden also has a history of making up outright lies about background checks at gun shows:
President Joe Biden made false claims about gun rights on Thursday, claiming that when “You go to a gun show, you can buy whatever you want, and no background check.” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki ran damage control for Biden in Thursday’s White House briefing, claiming that he does not actually believe that there are no background checks at gun shows.
“Require background checks for anyone purchasing a gun at a gun show, or an online sale,” Biden said. Background checks are already mandatory for online sales and sales by licensed gun dealers at gun shows.
“Most people don’t know, you walk into a store and you buy a gun, you have a background check,” Biden said. “But you go to a gun show, you can buy whatever you want – and no background check.”
Yeah, well ... Biden is a known, serial plagiarist ... lying is his best skill.
Now, let's move on to the so-called "journalists" in the libtard, FAKE NEWS propaganda networks ...
‘A ‘journalist’ saying this!’ Glenn Greenwald DRAGS Julia Ioffe for using historically ignorant fire-theater cliché to justify taking 1st Amendment from Fox News
http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2021/05/07/a-journalist-saying-this-glenn-greenwald-drags-julia-ioffe-for-using-historically-ignorant-fire-theater-cliche-to-justify-taking-1st-amendment-from-fox-news/
Glenn Greenwald seems surprised that a member of the media is an authoritarian harpy. Huh.
We’ve been covering Julia Ioffe and her stupid takes for quite a while so we’re hardly surprised she’d like to take the First Amendment protections from other journalists she disagrees with.
Glenn Greenwald ~ Here's GQ's @juliaioffe suggesting that the "authorities" should start considering declaring Fox News to be outside the bounds of First Amendment press freedom protections (invoking the historically ignorant fire-theater cliché to justify it). This is a "journalist" saying this!
We would pay REAL MONEY if just once one of these babbling bubbleheads on the Left who use the ‘fire in a theater’ analogy to champion silencing those they disagree with would do a little research and look up the fact that YOU CAN yell fire in a theater.
It’s worth a Google.
Glenn continued:
Glenn Greenwald ~ I cannot stress enough what a civil liberties crisis it is that the leading advocates of censorship in the US are liberal journalists: the same people whose duty is to champion the First Amendment, not demand its gutting.
And look how much they worship and revere "authorities":
Sad.
Pathetic.
And all too typical.
Jessa G. ~ She also screams she, is being censored when corrected by a Constitutional attorney. Censorship for thee but not for me!
hankito ~ It’s disgusting. If you take away from any, then take it away from all (including her).
Well, actually ... "no" ... follow The Constitution and honor freedom of speech to EVERYONE. That way, everyone is free to see Julia's abject, consistent stupidity for themselves.
Scott Leggett ~ Keep in mind, it’s perfectly fine to yell fire in a crowded theater if the theater is on fire.
It’s fine either way, but THIS is an exceptional point.
Kev Morris ~ It's like journalists have lost their minds and regressed to their primal tribal selves.
Well, they're not journalists, in the first place ... they're political hacks ... so ...
It’s like it?
No, they lost their minds long ago.
Rob Denton ~ The same could be said of CNN and MSNBC, as they have repeatedly put forth misinformation to their viewers that is tantamount to what you allege Fox news has done to theirs. No one has called for the censoring or shutting down of these news agencies. Politically driven nonsense.
Nope.
Just mean ol’ Fox News.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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