From Pine View Farm

Freedom of Screech 0

the writer of a letter to the editor of the Portland Press-Herald draws a distinction. Here’s a bit of the missive:

The First Amendment gave us the freedom of speech, but it did not give us the right to lie. You are not allowed to shout “fire” in a movie theater when there is no fire, you are not allowed to lie in a contract and you are not allowed to answer a question in court untruthfully.

I don’t know whether he as an ironclad legal case–the case law is ambiguous–but methinks he has an ironclad moral case.

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