Except hate speech is not covered under that amendment, neither is incitement of violence. These restrictions come from Supreme Court rulings interpreting the Constitution.
No, that's flatly incorrect. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech#United_States for more references than either of us can reasonably read in the time alloted to this silly flame war. Hate speech is "legal" in the US.
And even if it were not, and this was an edge case where the first amendment might not apply: there is no way a US court would order an extradition to a another country and let a foreign court (!) interpret the US constitution. None.
I never claimed they were planning to extradite someone, just that even in the US, free speech has its limits. Check out this post I wrote at roughly the same time to someone else:
Even in the US, you can be sued civilly for hateful comments and jailed for comments that could be construed as inviting or inciting violence.
I don't know the full story, the tweets are gone and the BBC didn't reproduce them.
It really seems like everyone here (including in the other thread) is trying to read more than what I wrote. Both you and the other person I was talking to used the word "crime", when I never remotely hinted at calling it a crime.
