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By your logic, all of the following statements should lead to an arrest:

I'm gonna have to kill someone if I don't get to sleep soon.

You make me so mad I want to kill you!

If these kids don't calm down you'll have to restrain me so I don't kill one.

A: If they don't budge on this soon we'll have to consider some other options. B: What about kidnapping?

Plus a bunch of comedian, talk-show hosts and other free-spoken people. A joke is a joke; it's not an action and it's not a plan to action. It's irrelevant whether you personally find it funny or not.

If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged. - Cardinal Richelieu

Please reconsider the consequences of what you are proposing.




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