Excellent food for thought (snagged from itzwicks)

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Free speech does not guarantee the right to speak out without consequences. If you speak out and feel the blister of rebuke in return, you have seen free speech travel both ways.


Mark Davis, 16 April 2007

Comments

[ignis-mcgruff.livejournal.com]

Actually the First Amendment, that which guarantees the right of free speech, does not actually guarantee anything BUT

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

It does not give you the right to say anything you want, nor does it it say that the government will protect your ability to say whatever you want.

[mia42.livejournal.com]

I love your icon.

[charlesland.livejournal.com]

I like that quote, it's something that most people forget.