SCOTUS Voodoo
Should government ban Voodoo? This is a peculiar question on its face, but one worth asking in order to get to the heart of free speech or lack of. You see, Voodoo provides a unique backdrop to analyze the intersection of speech, belief, free will and harm, but before we begin, a few more questions must be raised.
1. Does belief in Voodoo matter? If belief in Voodoo on behalf of the victim is necessary for harm to occur, then the victim could simply choose to not believe in order to avoid harm. If the victim’s belief is not required for injury to occur, then free will is dead and perhaps government intervention is arguably justified.
So what is Voodoo? Voodoo is a practice of intention designed to influence the lives or conditions of self and or others. So whether an outright ‘incitement’ to violence such as ‘Kill all Democrats’ is shouted from the rooftops or dolls are poked with pins, both actions and beliefs ‘underpinning’ them (pun intended), constitute hate speech based on the ‘belief’ that they will likely lead to harm. In other words, simply uttering the magical incantation ‘Kill all Democrats’ or ‘Kill all Pedophiles’ (often, but not always, the same thing) should be sufficient to transform otherwise law-abiding Citizens into mindless Zombies capable of the most unspeakable atrocities, atrocities said Zombies will be utterly powerless to resist. In other words, the power of Voodoo, for true believers, is so total, it represents a nearly perfect cause/effect relationship regardless of the target’s belief system.
So does the belief system of the SCOTUS matter? Well, we can easily determine whether or not any given Justice is a believer in Voodoo based on how he or she views the First Amendment. If he/she believes in abstractions such as Hate Speech, he/she is a true believer and will rule in favor of protecting Citizens from the mindless hordes of Zombies triggered by magical incantations.
If he/she is not a true believer, any ruling he/she makes will be easily summed up in just three words ‘sticks and stones.’
Fortunately, I have watched all of the zombie movies and the series, The Walking Dead. So a zombie expert. If you guys have any questions, let me know. I feel like I can safely protect my family and friends from a zombie apocalypse. So if we say out loud,” killed the zombies” are we going to jail? I mean, is that hate speech?