"The Chaplinsky decision" was a Supreme Court case that ruled incorrectly against Walter Chaplinsky, and curbed American's freedom of speech with a new class of forbidden words called "fighting words". While some words may qualify as "fighting words", it's ironic that Walter Chaplinsky would be convicted of using them since he was a victim of mob violence and police brutality, who also had endured "fighting words" used against him by the arresting officer James Bowering, as well as others. Some folks say that actions are louder than words. The US Supreme Court in 1942 evidently disagreed. The insulting words that Walter Chaplinsky used were "Fascist" and "Racketeer". Fascist. Racketeer. I wonder if James Bowering laughed outright when he heard those insults. Nah... probably not. He's too damned serious. Walter was called, ironically, hypocritically, beforehand, "an unpatriotic dog", "a d...