#FirstAmendment: The Riot Act and the protests. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
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#FirstAmendment: The Riot Act and the protests. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
https://www.hoover.org/research/hard-truths-about-speech-and-assembly
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island? |
| 0:04.0 | Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the |
| 0:09.1 | tropics. |
| 0:10.1 | But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets. |
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| 0:26.6 | you listen to podcasts. This is TBS, I on the world. I'm John Bachelor. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcoming Professor Richard Epstein, the senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, teaches law at |
| 0:41.9 | NYU and the University of Chicago. |
| 0:44.0 | The law that pertains now is the First Amendment, freedom of speech, |
| 0:50.0 | the First Amendment, freedom of assembly, after a week of disorder on major college campuses |
| 0:56.7 | continuing. |
| 0:57.7 | Professor, a very good evening to you, you've written in defining ideas your thoughts about the limits of freedom of speech and when speech |
| 1:06.4 | is used as an explanation for misconduct. |
| 1:09.9 | I quote from the President's remarks following some of the bad nights, maybe they're |
| 1:15.3 | more ahead unknown. |
| 1:18.0 | Destroying property, said Mr. Biden, is not a peaceful protest. |
| 1:21.9 | It's against the law. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting |
| 1:25.8 | down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations. None of this is peaceful |
| 1:32.4 | protests. |
| 1:33.6 | Threatening people, intimidating people, instilling fear in people, is not peaceful |
| 1:38.0 | protest. |
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