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by kube-system 1455 days ago
Using the words "right now" may have been the icing on the cake for this one.

The court ruled in Hess v. Indiana that similar speech was legal because:

> [it] "amounted to nothing more than advocacy of illegal action at some indefinite future time."

It's still probably vague enough in specificity and context that I doubt SCOTUS would rule against it, but it's also plenty close enough that law enforcement wouldn't be out of line by following up on. It's also worth noting that this person simply got a letter, they weren't thrown in prison.