If you were to state to my face that I engage my Oedipal impulses with a female dog, you should be prepared to bear the consequences of your statement. Likewise, if you rant about overthrowing the established government you should be prepared to take whatever consequences result from your rant (established governments don't like to be overthrown). Consequences to speech can range from being ignored to a black eye to imprisonment to execution. Benjamin Franklin, who never fired a shot during the American Revolution, had it correct when he said, "We must all hang together or we must all hang separately."

If you can't take the heat, keep your words inside yourself.