On 5/20/2017 2:57 PM, wrote:
On Saturday, May 20, 2017 at 4:21:00 PM UTC-4, Rudy Canoza wrote:
Check out his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/GunnerAsch

The second item (as of this moment) on his page is his share of an item
from the Guardian (what?! gummer usually dismisses it as a commie rag)
about how someone is being prosecuted for an intemperate threatening
comment he made on his Facebook page. The story is interesting and
alarming:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...tion?CMP=fb_us

Anyway, what's more interesting than that story is that Wieber seems to
be quite sensitive to it...as well he might be, given his history of
much worse threats and suggestions here.

It's a strange commentary that the Guardian article seems to think that threatening to kill someone is a first-amendment issue -- as long as it's on social media.

Fortunately, prosecutors don't agree. Gunner is treading on much thinner ice than he seems to realize. For that matter, Larry, who has openly advocated threatening elected representatives with guns, clearly has crossed the line and is liable to prosecution for a felony.

Court cases have gone both ways on this issue, but chancing that you won't run into one that takes a dim view of thinly-veiled threats is a fool's choice.


I thought you might be interested to know that Michael Terrell has now
deleted his comments from Wieber's Facebook post about the guy being
prosecuted for unlawful threats.