Originally Posted by bloggerchick
Free speech has a lot to do with people thinking they are more important than someone else.
Well-said, if we lived in communist-era Russia.
Free speech has much more to do with fundamental human rights than any sense of importance.
Originally Posted by bloggerchick
Think about it. What response was expected when that baggie went through the security checkpoint? Most likely, the exact response that was recieved.
Actually, I would have expected either
no response at all or, at worst, a TSA screener expressing disagreement (which would still be unprofessional on the screener's part, but at least somewhat excusable). Instead, we got a screener trying to revoke the 1st Amendment rights of a passenger over a piece of opinion.
Originally Posted by bloggerchick
Calling someone an idiot can be considered a threat nowadays. Look at our schools and streets. One teenager can call another teen an idiot and be killed shortly after. Same thing applies to terrorists except in some cases, the terrorists are even more immature than the teens.
No, calling someone an "idiot" cannot be considered a threat, not even "nowadays." Saying, "I'm going to kill you," or something along those lines, IS a threat. Even calling someone a worse name than "idiot" is not and cannot be considered a threat.
That calling someone an idiot might draw a violent response does not in any way make the statement a threat.