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Avec "l'affaire" Christian Bale :

A recording of Christian Bale's outburst at a cinematographer on the set of Terminator Salvation leaked onto the Internet Monday, causing great embarrassment for the actor and the production studio, Warner Bros. In a three-minute expletive-laced tirade, Bale yells at the director of photography for walking into the frame and threatens to "kick his fucking ass."Is verbal abuse ever illegal?

Yes. The First Amendment protects all kinds of insulting language but not speech that qualifies as "fighting words." In the 1942 case Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, the Supreme Court defined fighting words as language that creates the threat of immediate physical conflict or that "by its very utterance inflicts injury." For Bale to be found liable in a civil suit, the plaintiff would first have to establish that the actor's words could easily have led to blows.

j'ai appris l'existence des fighting words. Est-il normal que la Constitution garantisse cette limite à la liberté d'expression, ou ces fighting words peuvent-ils être considérés comme le point de départ d'une agression ?

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