Bomb threats are not protected free speech, and your own admission that the government would be the one providing consequences makes that quite clear.
A better example of fair consequences of free speech is someone saying some hateful stuff, their employer hears it and dislikes it, and the employer fires the employee. Consequences, no government involvement.
Free speech does protect you from the bomb threats. But it doesn’t protect from any other laws that you might have broken in the process. In this case making illegal threats.
The laws don’t effect the available words in your speech, but the actions of those words. Like in this case making people fear for their life because of a bomb threat. Hell, it doesn’t even have to be words. It could be a letter, but it still holds the same consequences.
This doesn’t really make sense.
Bomb threats are not protected free speech, and your own admission that the government would be the one providing consequences makes that quite clear.
A better example of fair consequences of free speech is someone saying some hateful stuff, their employer hears it and dislikes it, and the employer fires the employee. Consequences, no government involvement.
Free speech does protect you from the bomb threats. But it doesn’t protect from any other laws that you might have broken in the process. In this case making illegal threats.
The laws don’t effect the available words in your speech, but the actions of those words. Like in this case making people fear for their life because of a bomb threat. Hell, it doesn’t even have to be words. It could be a letter, but it still holds the same consequences.
If you get in trouble for the speech, aka the speech being an illegal threat, it’s not protected speech.
Fair enough.
I just misread the original as "Free speech’ and not “Protected speech”.