Is It Illegal to Shout 'Fire' in a Crowded Theater?

 

 

In the United States, threatening the President’s life can lead to arrest and prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 871, which makes it a federal felony to knowingly and willfully threaten to take the life of, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm upon the President, President‑elect, Vice President, or other officer next in the presidential line of succession.

Penalties under this statute can include up to five years in federal prison and/or a fine of up to $250,000. The law also covers the Vice President, President‑elect, Vice President‑elect, and the Speaker of the House when both the presidency and vice presidency are vacant.

We have grown lax and lawless. We have grown deluded and ignorant. Seemingly desensitized to violence. These are the last of the last days.

Inciting violence under the guise — the lie — of humor, or not really serious [then why even broach that area of speech?] need to be investigated by competent law enforcement. Not DEI, affirmative action, inclusion, diluted, and lost the semblance of law enforcement. We’ve become a joke. Despite the hyperbole and accolades from the tongues refusing to speak accurately.

It took over 30 seconds from the shots being fired until the team assigned to President Trump reacted. With a woman, the same one who was in Butler, who comes up to the president’s armpit, on his detail again.

Time to get serious, folks. Really serious and stop the words and get back to real security.

Doesn’t matter who the president is. Who is in office in America.

Enough already.

And any and every so-called “lawmaker” in office who uses infamatory language inciting violence needs to be not merely reprimanded or censored. They need to be expelled from office and investigated intently regarding their inflammatory language to incite violence.

Why do we allow this to go on and escalate?

Rhetorical. It’s because we are deluded, lost, otherwise occupied, in denial, apathetic, and more and more people in America have a taste for blood, for violence, for murder.

We’re a sick, sinful land that needs fewer words and true repentance. Along with addressing the weaknesses in our Secret Service, FBI, law enforcement — police departments — all concerned more with being woke, DEI, affirmative action, diversity than in having highly trained people, the right people for the job in place.

Kimmel shouldn’t just lose his job on television. He should be arrested and tried under 18 U.S.C. § 871, which needs to be strengthened to better define “political speech,” and make threats of violence, assassination, against ANY person in office, no matter who, no matter their political party, a felony.

There is free speech, which I have been a fierce advocate of my whole life and will always defend, and then there is speech that crosses the line and incites violence and is spoken or written knowing it will settle upon individuals who will carry out the violence.

It is IRRESPONSIBLE, for speech while it ought to always be free, does carry RESPONSIBILITY with it. Ought to be spoken or written with wisdom and intelligence knowing possible consequences of what is said or written — and no longer permit the lie, the acting of, “I didn’t think it would lead to _______.” or, “Hey, I just said the words I didn’t tell anyone to go do ______,” and so on.

They know what they’re doing in saying and writing what they are.

If free speech isn’t covered by yelling “FIRE!” in a theater, invoking panic, reactions in those who hear the word, action in those who hear the word, then speaking or writing of assassinating a president, or any person in office, ought to carry even greater weight and consequences.

Oh, we’ve grown so lax, so lost, so wicked, and it’s all just ignored, and let’s move on.

And you think our best days lie ahead of U.S.? We’re great and going to get better?

Wise up. Wake up. Get real.

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Tuesday, April 28th, 2026

 

 

The Left’s Rising New Star Hasan Piker Endorses Terrorism, Violence and Suggested the President Should Be Assassinated

 

April 27, 2026

By C. Douglas Golden

Reprinted from Conservative News Daily, The Western Journal, & MSN Homepage

 

The text argues that Hasan Piker’s rise into mainstream, high-prestige media has helped sanitize or legitimize his inflammatory rhetoric-notably around political violence. It says that last week’s New York Times-hosted video chat with culture editor Nadja Spiegelman and New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino was meant to make Piker’s views seem acceptable within “sane” discourse.

It then claims that this attempt at prestige-washing was undercut by a real-world attack: 31-year-old cole Tomas Allen, according to the article, is in federal custody after he allegedly rushed past Secret Service and shot an agent at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where the president was evacuated. The article says Allen’s background and connections were linked to left-wing causes (including political donations and attendance at rallies), and that a note/manuscript sent to family described targeting Trump administration officials, as characterized by NBC News excerpts.

From there, the piece uses Allen’s alleged actions as “confirmation” that the attacker’s motivation aligns with ideas the author believes Piker promotes. It cites social-media clips and claims of a “supercut” where Piker is saeid to endorse,excuse,or rationalize political violence,including comments about other violent acts framed as justified by alleged wrongdoing (“social murder”). The author concludes that mainstream outlets should not “platform” Piker further, arguing that media engagement contributes to a broader culture that encourages or excuses violence.

Hasan Piker’s week-long media debutante ball has — alas — been spoiled by someone who lived out the leftist influencer’s rhetoric.

Those of you who pay attention to these things — and count yourself fortunate if you aren’t — may have noticed that the far-left Twitch streamer with over 3 million followers suddenly got an entrée into polite media society last week with an airy, soft-lit video chat hosted by The New York Times and featuring Nadja Spiegelman, the newspaper’s culture editor, and Jia Tolentino, a writer for The New Yorker.

Piker has gotten play in the legacy media before — glowing profiles in the Times, the newspaper’s galling decision to let him write a commentary political violence in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, despite the fact he himself loves calling for political violence when it results in audience capture. But the Times roundtable, with two of the most prestigious journalists the left-bubble Gotham media machine has to offer, was the clearest attempt to prestige-wash Piker’s inchoate, rambling political philosophy into something that fits within the window of sane political discourse.

And then some guy just had to go take a bit of Piker’s less-savory advice and try to assassinate President Donald Trump and those around him. Talk about a momentum-squasher.

As you’ve no doubt heard by now, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen is in federal custody after trying attacking the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night. Allen, who was described by authorities as heavily armed, rushed past Secret Service members and shot one agent before he was taken into custody. The event was evacuated and the president was taken back to the White House. The agent Allen allegedly shot was wearing a bulletproof vest and will recover.

Allen, a Torrance, California, teacher and engineer, was quickly linked to left-wing causes through his history, including donating to Kamala Harris and attending a “No Kings” rally. Later on Sunday, it was reported that he sent family members what is being described — depending on the source — as either a note or a manifesto in which he stated he “believed it was his duty to target Trump administration officials,” to use NBC News’ wording.

From NBC News:

Just moments before the attack, Allen sent family members a note apologizing to his parents, colleagues, students, bystanders and others for what he was about to do, according to a transcript of some of Allen’s writings provided to NBC News by a senior administration official.

“I don’t expect forgiveness,” Allen wrote. “Again, my sincere apologies.”

In the note, Allen criticized Trump without mentioning him by name. He wrote about lax security at the hotel, saying he had expected more.

He also described his “expected rules of engagement,” writing: “Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.” He appeared to be referring to FBI Director Kash Patel.

This isn’t a matter of shock or surprise, and I doubt there was anyone who seriously thought Hercule Poirot was needed to suss out what Mr. Cole was trying to accomplish Saturday night. However, if you needed concrete confirmation that he wasn’t trying to target the ghost of Ronald Reagan to impress Jodie Foster, say, there you had it.

There are a whole lot of reasons this is problematic; for the purposes of this exploration, only two matter. First, this is no less than the third credible attempt on the life of Donald Trump in less than two years. Second, Hasan Piker — the man currently having his coming out party in polite media society — encourages these sorts of attempts, not just implicitly but quite explicitly.

Here, for instance, is Piker talking about Trump’s assassination and saying that “someone has to do it.”

OK, fine, you’re saying. Maybe this is just one quote out of context. After all, this guy streams himself almost constantly, and this is one clip of him that seems to call for the assassination of the president of the United States. Perhaps it’s an aberration. Maybe he’s not some sort of Xbox Farrakhan — someone who talks horribly when he’s with his supporters but tries to present himself nicely in refined company like the Spiegelman/Tolantino podcast.

All right, then: Here’s a 65-part supercut where he either calls for or excuses murder, rape, harassment, genocide, and a score of other crimes.

WARNING: The following videos contain vulgar and graphic language that some viewers will find offensive.

And even the “Xbox Farrakhan” moniker doesn’t hold water — because, during the aforementioned podcast with Spiegelman and Tolantino, Piker continued to excuse violence quite explicitly, saying that people understood why accused assassin Luigi Mangione might have killed an insurance executive who was a husband and father because the man was guilty of what he called “social murder.”

Notice the lack of real pushback here. Normal people ought to be shocked by this; it’s Stalinist “enemy of the state”-style rhetoric in which anyone who does something the Hasan Piker contingent doesn’t like deserves to get offed.

If you watched the whole supercut above, there are a whole lot of folks that Piker thinks committed “social murder” and therefore have it coming — including President Trump and the nearly 3,000 innocent people killed on 9/11, for starters, and pretty much anybody who talks bad about him or thinks differently from him, especially if they happen to be Jewish.

This is either a madman who is too cowardly to go through with the depravity he endorses because he values his own freedom and comfort too much, and he knows both of those things (plus probably his life) would be compromised if he practiced what he preached, or he is a madman who has enough practicality to monetize his demoniacal ramblings.

In other words, whatever he may be, it’s not worth talking to or — to use that wretched verb — platforming this man in any serious sense. Yet, tout New York media society tried its hardest these past few days to form his aimless rampage into something acceptable for the liberal masses.

The footage of Cole Tomas Allen sprinting past the Secret Service, then being detained upon the floor of the Washington Hilton before he could kill the president or anyone else, should put a sobering conclusion to this lamentable episode of sane-washing a violent lunatic. Because even if Allen never consumed a minute of Piker’s drivel, he’s the invariable end product of a sociopolitical faction fed upon Pikerism, especially when Pikerism is laundered as acceptable by two women masquerading as respectable and responsible journalists.