Stupid, Yes, but Criminal?

Link via TalkLeft. It's pretty dumb to call a cop "a fucking pig." Really dumb. I'd rank it right up there with making crude racist jokes in a racially mixed setting. However, the First Amendment protects the right to open your mouth and prove that you're missing more than a few neurons. Unless, apparently, you call a cop "a fucking pig."

That's what Malachi Robinson did in Missoula, Montana four years ago. He was fined $50 and sentenced to ten days in jail--though the time was suspended. A lawyers' group appealed the conviction to the Supreme Court, which refused to hear the case, thereby letting stand a Montana Supreme Court decision that ruled against Robinson.

Again, don't get me wrong. Robinson was dumb. But things like the First Amendment are designed to, among other things, protect the stupid. Because who decides what is and isn't ignorant, and when will they make calling the president "a goddamned jerk" (my words) a criminal offense?