Know Your Rights: Threats Against the President Are a Federal Crime Even in a Song
The Santa Fe New Mexican › July 08, 2005
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The First Amendment guarantees you freedom of speech. But there is at least one form of speech that might land you in jail. It is a federal crime for anyone to willfully make a true threat to injure or kill the president of the United States.
High-school students in Boulder, Colo., found out about this law when Secret Service agents, whose job it is to enforce this law, visited their school.See the full content of this document
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Know Your Rights: Threats Against the President Are a Federal Crime Even in a Song
Many readers might be too young to remember Robert Zimmerman, also known as Bob Dylan. Dylan was one...
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