[Griff]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Griff, you need to bone up on your first amendment. There are specific limits to free or protected speech.

Incitement to riot or to commit crimes is not protected speech.
http://www.minnesotalawreview.org/ar...se-incitement/

One of my teachers described the first amendment as a pie chart representing all types of speech or expression. Slowly, slice after slice representing expression that is not protected, e.g. obscenity, slander, libel, is removed we are left with a rather thin sliver that represents what is protected and where.

I would posit that each of those slices were taken away by an established counter-revolutionary government after the radicals lost control of their revolution. Incitement and slander were exactly what the revolutionary generation engaged in.