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Did you guys know it is illegal to say "I want to kill the President of the United States of America". It is illegal it is a federal offence, it's one of the only sentences that your not allowed to say.

Now it was okay for me to say because I was telling you it was illegal to say "I want to kill the President of the United States of America", because I wasn't saying it, I was telling you it was illegal to say it, like a public service.

But it is not illegal to say "with a mortar launcher", because that's it's own sentence. It's an incomplete sentence but it may have nothing to do with the sentence before that. So that's perfectly fine, perfectly legal.

It's incredibly illegal, extremely illegal to go on the internet and say something like "The best place to fire a mortar launcher at the White House would be from the roof of the Rockerfeller Hewitt building, because of minimal security and you'd have a clear line of sight to the President's bedroom." That's insanely illegal, ridiculously illegal, recklessly illegal, horribly illegal, extremely felonious, super illegal because they will come to your house in the middle of the night and they will lock you up. Extremely against the law

One thing that is technically legal to say is "We have a group that meets Friday's at midnight under the Brooklyn bridge and the password is sic semper tyranus"

parent kneebonian 3 years ago

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