Mine was a pin-pointed question. I am glad that Bhubanda of UK has set forth a fitting reply. "Rights," in any democracy, are not unfettered. Therefore, free speech has its own parameters. The Supreme Court of the US had already expressed the principle that there were limits to excercising the right of free speech. In fact, in a case titled, Schenck versus US, the SC of the US opined that " The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a crowded theatre and causing a panic." Inflammatory speech that is calculated as a call to the murder of, and violence against innocents has never been considered protected speech under the First Amendment clause of the US Constitution.
KJD.
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