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When Free Speech Goes Sour

Written by arclightzero on

From: arclightzero.wordpress.com

I spend an awful lot of time going after the lefty extremists and their abuse of free speech, but since it’s the era of equal opportunity I feel the need to beat on more than just the liberals once in a while. Hey, fair is fair, right?

So just what is free speech? It pops up all over the place these days; from the Don Imus fiasco to the Ahmadinejad visit to Columbia to the Bishop Tutu issue at St. Thomas University. It seems like at least weekly there is some issue of free speech popping up, and in almost every instance it is evident that people (even supposedly educated people) have no idea what the first amendment really means. They simply invoke the first amendment as a shield to hide behind when they decide to be assholes. So as always, I have to ask if the right to free speech also means the right to be an asshole? I have asked this before, and now I will ask it again; this time citing some people that truly push the first amendment too far. Watch the video first, and then read on.

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