Judo.

**Snake Plissken** · Posted On: 6/19/2009 3:30pm

Originally Posted by kenpostudent

You are correct. I am not arguing that. Again, it goes back to the ability of the speech to incite. There is forseeability involved. The speech has to have the ability of provoking immediate violence. Hence, why a threat is not covered by free speech. You can make a convincing argument that calling anyone a racial slur is inciting violence or provoking a fight.

Who is the public official in this instance?

**HappyOldGuy** · Posted On: 6/19/2009 3:30pm

Originally Posted by kenpostudent

Are you telling me that this does not qualify as "fighting words"? Please!

On the internet, absolutely it's not.

**ysc87** · Posted On: 6/19/2009 3:33pm

Originally Posted by HappyOldGuy

On the internet, absolutely it's not.

Correct, in the legal sense.

**kenpostudent** · Posted On: 6/19/2009 3:39pm

Originally Posted by Snake Plissken

Who is the public official in this instance?

The public official was part of the New Hampshire state law, not the Supreme Court's definition of protected speech.

**kenpostudent** · Posted On: 6/19/2009 3:41pm

Originally Posted by HappyOldGuy

On the internet, absolutely it's not.

It looked like fighting words for me, AND it provoked a challenge match! Wow, could have fooled me.

**ysc87** · Posted On: 6/19/2009 3:47pm

Originally Posted by kenpostudent

It looked like fighting words for me, AND it provoked a challenge match! Wow, could have fooled me.

http://fr.truveo.com/south-park-peop.../id/1035958815

**kenpostudent** · Posted On: 6/19/2009 3:54pm

Originally Posted by ysc87

http://fr.truveo.com/south-park-peop.../id/1035958815

That would fall under speech whose content is distasteful. It is not inherently inflammatory and it was not an insult directed at a person.

**Kintanon** · Posted On: 6/19/2009 4:06pm

Originally Posted by kenpostudent

Are you telling me that this does not qualify as "fighting words"? Please!

That's not fighting words, that's a piece of fucking Performance Art. If someone said that to me in person I would be so amazed at the audacity, the depth and breadth of the threat implied that I would likely concede defeat out of sheer amazement.
Sirc has many examples of "Fighting Words" within his trolling, but that is not one.
Here are the reasons why:
1. Calling a caucasion a ****** doesn't have the same kind of historical weight to it and just isn't the same kind of insult when applied to someone without the appropriate cultural baggage.
2. The threat/stakes implied are of an absurd nature. No one could possibly construe the usage of ones children as mantlepiece trophies as a real or credible threat.

Fighting words == No. Sirc == DoucheBag + Hilariously Awesome

**kenpostudent** · Posted On: 6/19/2009 4:21pm

Originally Posted by Kintanon

That's not fighting words, that's a piece of fucking Performance Art. If someone said that to me in person I would be so amazed at the audacity, the depth and breadth of the threat implied that I would likely concede defeat out of sheer amazement.
Sirc has many examples of "Fighting Words" within his trolling, but that is not one.
Here are the reasons why:
1. Calling a caucasion a ****** doesn't have the same kind of historical weight to it and just isn't the same kind of insult when applied to someone without the appropriate cultural baggage.
2. The threat/stakes implied are of an absurd nature. No one could possibly construe the usage of ones children as mantlepiece trophies as a real or credible threat.

Fighting words == No. Sirc == DoucheBag + Hilariously Awesome

He missed his calling as a WWE wrestler.

**HappyOldGuy** · Posted On: 6/19/2009 4:22pm

Originally Posted by kenpostudent

It looked like fighting words for me, AND it provoked a challenge match! Wow, could have fooled me.

Unless you are in an internet cafe texting across the room, there is absolutely nothing you can say on the net that creates a threat of an immediate breach of the peace. There is too much opportunity for cooldown time etc.

And a challenge match is not disturbing the peace. Unless it takes place in a masonic lodge parking lot.

Now stop getting us to do your lawschool homework!