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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: brushwud who wrote (201469)9/14/2012 7:21:03 PM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (1) of 542010
 
The concept of a right to free speech, which predates the United States and thus exists outside the body of laws deriving from the Constitution, to me is so fundamental to U. S. history and the U. S. government that I certainly don't accept it as being conditional like a speed limit or a tax rate. If that were repealed or circumscribed, then based on Locke, I'd have to be an outlaw in revolt against tyranny and no longer subject to "a contract".


That is because you do not understand the concept of Free Speech. Free Speech is and has to be circumscribed.

Examples:

You can't shout fire (when there is no fire) in a crowded theater.
You can't say "God Bless America" after you train a pit bull to kill when you say "God Bless America" .
you can't Piss on, shit on, or set fire to a bible when there are a bunch of religious fanatics ready to kill you or people dear to you (you can scream Freedom of Speech all you want).

Freedom of speech is a human construct and there are a lot of this and that's. It was not carved in stone by some supranatural force.
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