It's amazing to me how quickly the Indiana AG fired the guy considering how much dithering and blathering the Michigan AG did before reluctantly firing the guy who was stalking/intimidating the gay UM student body president.

Firing someone over free speech is wrong. If he was siding with the GOP (or the Dems), and was fired for that, that would be wrong.

Firing someone over encouraging violence is quite acceptable.

You may now feel not-conflicted.

Yeah, the Indiana AG may be a Republican (former aide to Dan Quayle no less), but before being elected he was a managing AAG himself for many years. I'm guessing had his eye on this guy already and this was the last straw.

Yeeeaaaaahhhh...I kinda think someone who's been to law school should recognize protest is a key part of a democracy and, you know, not call for a gross violation of the rule of law in response to it.

In his defense, the guy at Mother Jones probably is a "typical liberal."

Advocating violence is not protected speech under the First Amendment.

Can't we do both, @9?

He was a government official in a position where he was supposed to uphold the law and he advocated violence against peaceful protesters by the police. Sorry, that isn't free speech. Once you cross the line from disagreeing with someone politically to saying they should be killed for their opinions you no longer deserve your job if you work in any official capacity.

Free speech has limits, and incitement to murder is one of them. This guy advocated a massacre of innocent people and, when confronted, did not walk it back. If that is not cause to fire a public official, then I don't know what is.