Nazi Uses First Amendment To Defend Lethal Threats Against Jewish Woman

Perverse Individual Perverts the Constitution

Freedom of speech is not absolute. This is well established, the Supreme Court has said that the First Amendment does not give a person to yell fire in a crowded theater. But a Nazi is claiming it does give permission to issue death threats to a Jewish woman in Montana.

Gersh, of Whitefish, Mont., sued Anglin in April in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana. The complaint details many of the more than 700 anti-Semitic and hateful messages, including death threats, to Gersh, her family, friends and colleagues. A few examples of emails sent to her personal and work accounts:

“Ratfaced criminals who play with fire tend to get thrown in the oven”

“Merry Christmas, you Christ-killer”

“Worthless f—– k—.”

“It’s time for you to take a one way ticket to tel aviv.”

“You have no idea what you are doing, six million are only the beginning.”

In one email, “Death to Tanya” was repeated more than 30 times, followed by: “This message came from ‘Satan Your King.’ ”

Now some of these are terribly offensive, but probably are not actionable. But the death threats are. Even rabid conservatives are probably repulsed by this. And the fact that conservatives are outraged shows just how bad this is.

So somehow the Nazi's have found an attorney who will claim Freedom of Speech to defend death threats.  Wow,