The First Amendment Of Hit Man

This book is not protected by the 1st Amendment because of incitement. It is a tool for how to kill someone and get away with it. If someone wanted to kill someone, they would do anything to get what they wanted to complete it. This brings us to the main case at hand. Rice v. Paladin Enterprises. Mr. Horn hired James Perry to murder 3 people, Mildred Horn, his eight-year-old son Trevor, and Trevor’s nurse, Janice Sanders using the book, “Hit Man” for $2 million.

The main questions that are being asked in this case are whether “Hit Man: A Technical Manual for the Independent Contractor”, is protected by the First Amendment, along with whether it is incitement or advocacy. Some of the evidence being provided is that the author of the book is

This method will half decapitate the victim, cutting both his main arteries and wind pipe, ensuring immediate death.” This shows that this is expressing clear and present danger that brings about evil that Congress has a right to prevent because this isn’t just entertainment anymore or just a book like some people think. It causes a man, a husband, and a father to go out and kill his entire family for money. For money. He killed his eight-year-old son, ex-wife, and son’s nurse for money due to him reading this book. This book caused these thoughts to be in his head, to kill these innocent people. Along with the U.S. Appellate Court Judge J. Michael Luttig, U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals claims that, “Paladin’s astonishing stipulations, coupled with the extraordinary comprehensiveness, detail, and clarity of Hit Man’s instructions for criminal activity and murder in particular the boldness of its palpable exhortation to murder, the alarming power and effectiveness of its peculiar form of instruction, the notable absence from its text of the kinks of ideas for the protection of which the First Amendment exists, and the book’s evident lack of any even arguably legitimate purpose beyond the promotion and teaching of murder,

Ohio, stated that a state cannot forbid advocacy and use it as a law violation, except where such advocacy is directed at inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action. In the book itself, it declares that killing is the easiest part of the job because people kill one another every day, with that being said this statement mainly says that you should kill because people die anyway. The book is also proven to showcase advocacy due to the line, “Because it is so inexpensive (mine cost less than twenty dollars to make), you can easily dispose of it after job use without any great loss.” This states that since a gun is not expensive, you should use it because it’s not like it’ll be a great loss of money anyway. And not only the statements that are made in the book regarding why you should use/do certain things demonstrate incitement, but also the point of view in the way the text is provided. The text is shown in a “you” perspective, which makes the book more focused on the doing of the act that is shown. In the text, it says, “If you hit bone, you will have to file the blade to remove the marks left on the metal when it struck the victim’s bone. Using the six inch, serrated blade knife, stab deeply into the side of the victim’s neck and push the knife forward in a forceful