PS: I was a farm kid and i cannot remember doing something strange with the livestock O.o….maybe that night…that hangover…ºoº OMG…! jakajka
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The sad part is, that headline isn’t inaccurate. Apparently, Horsley is estranged from his immediate family because of his extremism. Now he’s running for Governor of Texas, and his goal is to secede. The interviewer wonders if he’s considered the consequences, and ask if he has a son in the military:
“I have a son who was a Sergeant in the Army,” he says.

We ask him if you won the election, and you seceded, what would you do if the United States government sent your son to stop you? Would you be willing to kill your own son? Because that’s what we’re talking about if you start another Civil War — brother against brother. That’s when he relates the following story.

One day, he’s in his room arguing with his son (his family tries to talk him out of his extreme positions), and finally loses it. “He literally attacked me,” Horsley says. “He weighs 220 lbs like a Bulldog and said ‘Don’t say another word!’”

The second time his son slammed him down, when Horsley got up, he had a pocket knife out. “My son looks at me and says, ‘So, it’s life or death, huh?’ and I said, ‘Yeah, life or death son. Don’t come back until you’re ready to apologize to me.’ The point is, I was one foot from killing my own son, or hurting him really, really bad. If he would have attacked me again, I would have stuck him. Or cut him or sliced him or done something to stop him. That’s the point, you hypothetical has literally already been worked out with me, and that’s what makes me different from the other candidates for Governor. They understand I’m not like no politician they have looked at, ever. I am prepared to do a John Brown. I’m not prepared to do an Abe Lincoln and talk out both sides of my mouth and try to get a majority together. I’m looking for the people who are prepared to go with me and take over the foundry, then set up shop and prepare to fight to the death. I’ll do it.”

First of all, are you sure sedition is an exception to the first amendment?

For one thing, I was agreeing with you (and disagreeing with Red Dave) that “the right to free speech” does not automatically protect public displays of horrific images. It is a fair question to wonder why that’s legal, but a public display of a photograph of a naked person is illegal.

For another, yeah, sedition is an exception to the first amendment. You can talk about sedition all you want, but you can’t legally recruit for a mission to execute it. You can say you want to overthrow the government, but you can’t say you will. Etc. Note that this is a controversial idea and assessments are made case-by-case and are strongly affected by context. When I say “sedition is an exception to the first amendment”, I mean that sedition has in fact been used by the US Supreme Court as grounds for exceptions to the first amendment; not that all sedition is a just exception.

Citizens of the US and other “Western powers” enjoy vastly more liberties than, say, an Egyptian slave. But not absolute liberty.

I wrote:
I wanted a public way to ask you, since you pretend to hate abortions, if you’ve ever gotten off your ass and done something useful, helpful and compassionate toward providing the safe, effective, inexpensive, easily available vasectomies and contraception that prevents the need for abortions?

For people who have sex with people, I mean, to prevent pregnancies. I don’t know if you’re really a Neal Horse-”lover” like some people are saying.

He wrote:
People can prevent abortion by abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse. As governor, I will implement coitus control measures by working for statutes criminalizing illicit sexual intercourse. Thank you for your support. You can mail donations to:

Horsley for Governor
etc. etc.

He is showing his true colors: NO SEX!
Not with people, anyway.
And, since only women get pregnant, he can punish only women.

Some of you live in the south. Can someone this dishonest, and punitive toward having sex, actually get anywhere in Georgia? I was hoping that the stereotypes we discussed in other blogs about the south were going or gone.

It depends on how far the sedition goes. If they catch you plotting the overthrow of the government over the phone, that counts as seditious conspiracy. Despite the fact that you haven’t done anything yet, it’s still a crime. I suspect that the prosecution would have to prove that there was good reason to think that you would and could make the attempt.

Additionally, and more to the point, I don’t see how photos of mutilated fetuses wouldn’t fall under the “obscenity” category.