First Amendment liberties for free speech vs criminal action teeter in the litigation balance for the international environmental organization Greenpeace. The 501(c)(4) nonprofit just incurred a massive jury verdict exceeding $660 million for allegedly defaming and inciting illegal behavior against Energy Transfer, the corporate developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The activist entity’s fiscal survival possibly hangs in the balance.
Violence and Vandalism
Recent years have seen a spectacular increase in the use of violence, disruptions, and other nonverbal escalations of intensity in the name of free speech liberties. The destructive BLM riots that caused billions of dollars in property damage were justified by many as free expression. Keying, vandalizing, and burning Teslas to oppose DOGE is now common. Few causes have been more…
