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It's worth noting that in the United Kingdom, you can already be fined or jailed for tweeting. Neither of these would be criminally actionable offenses in the US, and the first one especially would be clearly protected political speech:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-19883828

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/mar/27/student-jailed-fab...



People are denied entry to the US because they've made a stupid tweet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16810312

People are arrested for stupid youtube videos

http://www.dailydot.com/news/cameron-dambrosio-boston-bomb-t...

etc etc


There is a huge degree of difference between being denied entry to a foreign country and having punitive action taken against you by the government.

Your second case is about a guy who was thought to be making immediate threats, rather than simply tweeting something offensive, and he was released after the grand jury refused to indict him on free speech grounds:

http://www.ibtimes.com/cameron-dambrosio-set-free-massachuse...

This is not even a false equivalency, etc. etc.


Our constitution obviously only protects citizens... Not sure what your point is.


Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I don't see the word citizen in there at all. While the courts generally agree that it only applies to citizens, it is definitely not obvious.


If that's true, does the Constitution permit non-citizens to be owned as slaves?


The YouTube video was a citizen.

Can you point to the bit of the constitution that talks about citizens?

If you want some more examples there are all the people tased, shot, beaten, or arrested for filming police during traffic stops etc.




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