Freedom of Speech (did I miss something?)

[kandrathe]

I remember a KKK rally march from the 60's. I was a kid, but they marched , spewed their hate and no one I knew liked it happening... but, at the end of it... I thought to myself, America is kind of a great place, where even if you are reprehensible, you have basic rights of assembly, and speech. The march and vitriol they vomitted were forgettable. But, I remember they had the rights to do it.

Well, I beg to differ.
In the 60`s in the US they also still used to drag black people behind a car, and it was in the south somehow accepted.....partly because those KKK types had some legitimacy because they were allowed to protest.

Freedom of speech stops when you use it to threaten and to support violence against certain groups. The US always had a problem understanding what freedom of speech exactly implies.

That is the consequence of using your freedom to commit a crime. I was a kid, so I was not inundated with violent news. But, in case I missed something, please enlighten me of all the dragging deaths in the sixties I missed. There was a case in 1998, where three white guys were convicted. But, I'm sure there were plenty of events that occurred that didn't make the newspaper.

I don't see we have a problem with our freedom. It is illegal to threaten harm,

Illegal threats include threats to do bodily harm, threaten to destroy property, or threats to do anything “which is maliciously intended to substantially harm the person threatened or another with respect to his or her physical or mental health or safety.” Either immediately or in the future.