This is the same guy that now posted political leaders hung in effigy. Do you really believe the intent of his post wasn’t to incite and encourage more political violence? because that’s fundamentally crossing the line from political speech… and there was never any protection from the consequences of that speech. which, you so blithely seem to want to ignore.

I don’t know his intent and I’m pretty lenient on plausible deniability. Some of the most vitriolic arguments I get in at work are about criminal justice reform and I have very strong opinions about individual liberties.

You have budged me a bit, though. I think, all strung together, a search warrant for texts and social media around those days would be in order, but if the private communications were useful for anything, it’d probably be the reason to prosecute and the rest of it is just supporting.