And if we're going to go down that road, I can only begin to imagine what will be considered threatening tomorrow. Other free speech advocates, while acknowledging the defendants in the Oregon case may have known they were being threatening, say the court's new standard is a slippery slope. The ACLU's David Fidanque. And the standard that was applied in this case just isn't clear enough. Dr. Newhall says that concern is misplaced.
Nobody has any interest whatsoever in squelching the first amendment.
I mean, I don't think free speech is in jeopardy. I don't think people are worried about their free speech rights. I think people are worried about their access to health care. Since the verdict, plaintiffs have asked the court to ban publication of the posters and the Nuremberg Files, but Judge Robert Jones said the web page, created in Georgia, was outside his jurisdiction. The site's author then announced plans to display on the page live video of women entering abortion clinics.