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> I'm afraid you can't buy a copy of the Glorifying Terrorism SF anthology (it's out of print, and not going to be reprinted or published as an ebook any time soon, because of the ongoing VATMESS headache)

I wonder if in this day and age a 500-year old book like "Vindiciae contra tyrannos" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindiciae_contra_tyrannos) would land his/her author in jail. I suppose it would. And I cannot remember the exact title, but there were books similar with this one, written at about the same time, which were advocating for even more drastic measures: i.e. the assassination of the tyrant/king.

Anyway, in the US it has been illegal for some time to say "I want to kill the President of the United States of America" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEQOvyGbBtY), the UK had remained one of the few countries where a liberty of speech "loophole" was still in place. Sad to see it gone.




> Anyway, in the US it has been illegal for some time to say

Note the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that this threat against the life of a sitting president was protected by the First Amendment:

"If they ever make me carry a rifle the first man I want to get in my sights is L.B.J."

Here's the text of the opinion; it's a famous 1A case: http://laws.findlaw.com/us/394/705.html




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