the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas" (99). This neglects the fact that if somebody expresses the idea that the President should be shot, he will be immediately arrested. Police will "correct" such an idea, not waiting for "the competition of other ideas" (99).
Pell commits this fallacy because it appeals to the public's feeling that the Constitutional freedoms enunciated in the Bill of Rights are sacred, and once they begin to be eroded, they will ultimately be undermined entirely. However, to note that it is illegal to express the idea that the President should be killed would undermine the argument that it is not illegal to express the idea that all Jews should be killed. The Government "separates the true from the false for us" (99) in terms of the first idea, but if Pell noted this fact, it would lead to the conclusion that the government has the right to lock somebody up who advocates the idea that all Jews be murdered, and the
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