2025-12-26T16:52:14Z https://nostr.now gmcgath https://nostr.now/npub10ex2sn0a7ld9u79rt9xt2asjvgpwd63auufjt7k6czr3wn0g6ngsl3uhzm https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswdvmqz20rqt2cjknzjuzp5c84jxk9asz3rmr6jpdhnvyexqennuczyplye2zdlhma5hnc5dv5edtkzf3q9eh28hn3xf06mtqgw96dar2dzxu0usa In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrwmzgx8qfrdz5lzx4twwcr6hu3g53ad05aaxg0mkev2tsc5askcgu6txq5'>nevent1q…txq5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It isn&#39;t a crime because whenever some legislature tries to make it a crime, the courts point at the First Amendment. But you&#39;re right that prosecutors have a lot of leeway and can bring heavier charges just because they don&#39;t like a suspect. 2025-02-13T12:53:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsq6ysmplfmsccygh9qzf00jpac4mjcl7cyln0etrdf46h0mpvgy7szyplye2zdlhma5hnc5dv5edtkzf3q9eh28hn3xf06mtqgw96dar2dz9t2j4h Ground News headline: &#34;N.J. man arrested, charged with issuing threats, racial slurs on Miami-Newark flight.&#34; Issuing racial slurs is not a crime in the US, and as far as I can tell no one brought a bogus charge of that kind, but some news outlets want us to absorb the fiction that there are speech crimes and they get prosecuted.<br/>#fakeNews 2025-02-12T15:22:00Z