Yesterday, I posted the following on the board:
A Note on Freedom of Speech
By Citizen Maudit
The BILL RIGHTS does not guarantee citizens from being OFFENDED. Most citizens do
not know the limits of the First Amendment and seem to be accepting of pressure,
mostly leftist, to reduce it in an effort to eliminate “offensiveness.” What the First Amendment does not protect is speech that incites imminent violence. However, the HECKLER’S VETO, no matter how violent, cannot legally truncate the
right to freedom of speech.
SPEECH CODES,
mostly unconstitutional have been adopted in over 3/5 of the nation’s public colleges
and universities, mostly by faceless left-wing administrators and professors. University of Massachusetts is amongst the
worst of the worst! Another example of
the war on free speech is the ISTANBUL
PROCESS in which both Obama and Hillary have been actively engaged with the
Muslim Brotherhood to establish unconstitutional anti-blasphemy laws in America. Likely most citizens remain blissfully ignorant
with that regard.
America is unique,
amongst Western nations—a model of freedom of speech and expression, thanks to
its First Amendment. Most such nations,
including Canada, have less freedom because of adopted HATE SPEECH regulations.
Citizens of those countries can be prosecuted for uttering a mere fact,
if a protected group decides to be offended by it and lodge a complaint. This has happened, for example, in Austria,
Holland, Denmark, England, and Canada.
Intelligently,
as the adage goes, the best solution for hate speech is more speech… not
government censorship and regulation.
Besides, “hate” is a highly subjective term, which makes prosecution difficult.
On the 4th
of July, I held a sign: CELEBRATE THE
FIRST FUCKING AMENDMENT, NOT COMMERCE.
Many were upset. Amazingly, most
could not fathom the message. All they
could see was the F-word. One guy looked
so angry, I thought he was going to attack me.
In fact, he called me Charles
Manson. But words are protected
speech in America, thanks to the First Amendment. Citizens
must not be afraid to use them or, if they are, they submit to control by
others. Citizens must push at the
boundaries of subjective propriety, now and then, or those boundaries will push
at and further oppress citizens.
Imagine the day when typing the word FUCK on a laptop
computer is no longer possible because of faceless government censors! And what if the latter decide to add BAD and
its numerous synonyms to the list of prohibited vocabulary? And what if through high tech they’ll be able
to eliminate criticism altogether? Well,
then we’ll have Orwell’s 1984 prophesy
of “Newspeak,” a deliberate intent to shrink
vocabulary in an effort to control the citizenry.
……………………………………………..
BTW, not one
library on Cape Cod will subscribe ($20) to The
American Dissident! It is as if the
library directors on the Cape are of one mind… against freedom of speech and
vigorous debate, DEMOCRACY’S
CORNERSTONES. Maybe you’d like to be
the first person on the Cape to do so?
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