{"id":88516,"date":"2023-12-12T06:12:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T11:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=88516"},"modified":"2023-12-12T06:12:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T11:12:22","slug":"explaining-the-difference-between-reprehensible-but-protected-speech-and-terrorist-actions-to-a-congressmember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=88516","title":{"rendered":"Explaining the Difference Between Reprehensible but Protected Speech and Terrorist Actions to a Congressmember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three university presidents found themselves unable to explain to members of a House committee the difference between reprehensible but protected free speech and terrorist actions.\u00a0 Perhaps they should have given an extreme example, such as the following:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a person holding a position with the university were to attempt to argue that the mass killing of members of a particular ethnic group is somehow morally justifiable, that would be reprehensible but protected speech. If, on the other hand this person were to spend 10.5 million dollars a day of university money to kill those people and then try to spend 14 billion dollars more to kill more of them, it would become necessary to remove him\/her from that position.\u00a0 Do you understand Congressman\/woman?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If they don\u2019t understand, perhaps their constituents will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three university presidents found themselves unable to explain to members of a House committee the difference between reprehensible but protected free speech and terrorist actions.\u00a0 Perhaps they should have given an extreme example, such as the following: \u201cIf a person holding a position with the university were to attempt to argue that the mass killing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-ahmads-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88517,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88516\/revisions\/88517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}