I've been reading and listening, like most of you, to all of the 'news' about how McCain rallies are growing increasingly violent, and I started to wonder about whether it really was as big a deal as they were making it. So what do y'all think? Is it John McCain or Palin's responsibility to stop their speech and correct the audience members? or do you think it's just practicing free speech when the audience yells things like 'kill him', 'bomb obama', or 'off with his head?'

One thing I kept in my mind while thinking about this is that if I were to go to a corner and gather a group of people around me and start defaming another person, and that in turn led to them becoming restless and angry and (on a rhetorical level) violent, I would be charged with inciting a riot or disturbing the peace. You just can't stir up a crowd to threaten another person's life without some kind of penalty. Unless you're a politician of course. So what's y'all's opinion?
pinkyslayer Reviewed by pinkyslayer on . What do you think? I've been reading and listening, like most of you, to all of the 'news' about how McCain rallies are growing increasingly violent, and I started to wonder about whether it really was as big a deal as they were making it. So what do y'all think? Is it John McCain or Palin's responsibility to stop their speech and correct the audience members? or do you think it's just practicing free speech when the audience yells things like 'kill him', 'bomb obama', or 'off with his head?' One thing I kept Rating: 5