>>a growing number of world leaders find the First Amendment’s right of free speech to be an inconvenience
The consent of the governed is dangling by a thread...
If we are nice, we could give all the thieves in the building advance notice.
The more authority we dump on our governments to control “moral” issues to achieve national conformity, the closer we come to loosing our rights.
> General Ban Ki-moon’s warning that “when some people use this freedom of expression to provoke or humiliate some others’ values and beliefs, then this cannot be protected.”
This is the very reason that free speech and the right to humiliate need to be protected rights; without free speech you have tyranny.
Tyrants oppose free speech and the right to bear arms, because these are the means provided to the people to oust bad rulers and governments. A populace cannot rally against a bad government without free speech and they will fail without the right to bear arms to protect their free speech.
Good read, thanks!