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You can't cry, uh, fire in a crowded theater. But you can't shout fire in a crowded theater.

You're not allowed to go into an

auditorium and yell fire, fire, fire. Let me think about it. We all believe in the First Amendment,

the guarantee of free speech. But we accept that you can't yell fire in a theater. You can't yell fire in a theater. You can't yell fire in a crowded theater.

It's the most popular and widely known catchphrase about free speech.

It's America's go-to way to say that free speech is not absolute and that the First

Amendment has exceptions.

Although there are variations.

Because the Constitution does not say that a person can shout, yell wolf in a crowded theater.

You hear it on TV and read it in newspapers.

It's invoked by college students and professors, politicians and radicals, lawyers and clergy and everyone in between.

But does it mean anything?

And where does it come from?

To answer that, we've got to go back 100 years to the source, the legendary Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who was writing in 1919.

And we've got to look at what he actually said rather than the way we misquote it.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

That was an analogy.

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