These questions needed to be asked and addressed regardless of how he claims it is his freedom to do so. Elonis has threatened several law enforcement agencies through his Facebook status, a Facebook status is used to say what you are doing and how you feel, so at that moment when he decides to make his emotions/texts public he chooses to use a social network like its platform to threaten government officials is what another normal person would expect from a different outcome than the one pursued by the government itself