When someone calls for the murder of another person, in public, to a crowd of people, that person forfeits any right to privacy.
@egavactip I think these people should be deported … period. Can you imagine being an American in a Muslim country and calling for the leader to be murdered? On their soil?
@egavactip Something like 60% of Americans support the death penalty for capital crimes, which is what this person is actually saying. They’re wrong, and he’s wrong, but they do not “forfeit any right to privacy”
@egavactip I think it depends on whether their call will be acted on and their intention in making that call. This person is 23 years old - 23 only! - and a student probably used to debating and making pronouncements in an overblown manner. Point out how they're wrong. Don't endanger them.
@egavactip Bingo. When you are in a teaching position and you say the president shld be murdered because of your freak show political theory I think that’s worthy of comment.
@egavactip Minor point. But he’s not a student. He’s a teaching assistant. Significant difference.
@egavactip Isn't Secret Service supposed to pay you a visit after this sort of thing? I mean, I thought that even joking about killing the President was out of bounds, kinda like joking about having a bomb in your luggage while going through the airport
@egavactip @joshtpm Also, he's an adult at a public protest?