>Prosecuting someone for a legal opinion is fundamentally no different than
>criminalizing any other sort of opinion.
Incidentally, the alleged mastermind of 9/11 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should probably be allowed free under this interpretation.
He was only expressing his opinion when he (allegedly) encouraged the hijackers to commit their crimes. Surely you wouldn't want to see this "free expression of opinion", or in ordinary English "criminal conspiracy" criminalised? I know you wouldn't. Couldn't have that in the Land of The Free, now could we?
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas