If you or I did that, we'd be hauled off to jail. We need to have a few examples made out of and crack down on this sort of thing. In a way it is worse when a public figure does this because a public figure has much more influence or "clout" than the average Joe or Jane on the street.
I don't care how you feel about Nugent's music or Obama's policies, it seems that if there were a First Amendment line to cross, that would be it. And yet, the reality is the Secret Service will spend a little time investigating Nugent, determine he's not a true threat, and move on. If the Supreme Court can rule in favor of an 18-year-old man who, in voicing his opposition to being drafted for the Vietnam War, said: "If they ever make me carry a rifle the first man I want to get in my sights is LBJ," then it's doubtful anything is going to happen to Nugent.
Yep.
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