To: Tumbleweed_Connection
We wouldn't need a specific expression of the right to free speech if all free speech meant was "saying things everyone likes to hear." That's why this whole "hate speech" thing is the biggest crock--it's a multicult way of getting around that right we all supposedly hold so dear. And yet we have this current fashion that says the right to free speech isn't REALLY a right to free speech.
Of course there's the old "can't shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater but that's not about free speech--it's not saying you can't use the word "fire", it's saying you can't create a panic that might endanger people's lives. When we get to the point where people can equate opinions they don't like hearing with yelling "Fire!" we are on our way to bannana republic status.
6 posted on
07/26/2005 9:02:12 AM PDT by
Darkwolf377
(Dean won't call UBL guilty without a trial, but thinks DeLay and Rove should be in jail)
Hooper couldn't answer honestly, so he resorted to using the stand-by charge of "You're an Islamophobic bigot, racist, etc..."
The truth about Islam keeps unearthing itself. CAIR can't bury it deep enough.
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