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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
What I consider to be one of the greatest things about my country is that not only are we not passing laws restricting speech, but that the government cannot pass laws restricting speech. Once we give them the power to decide what we can and can't say, there's no way to guarantee that the power will not be abused.
I am proud to live in a country where people can hear this ignorance for themselves and judge it on its own merit instead of based on an arbitrary limit on what we are permitted to say.
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I couldn't agree more. This speaker reminds me of that bonehead from Kansas, Fred Phelps, and his band of idiots that go around protesting at funerals of dead soldiers -- they are all in the same group, blind, angry, spitting with hate, destructive. Their ridiculous and dangerous speech belongs out in the open, out in the sunlight, where it is seen for what it is. The most dangerous thing to do with these ideas is to try to bury them. No law or punishment can ever legislate these ideas from people's minds, and the only way to combat them is out in the open. There is no other way. Putting people in jail simply for what they say is tyranny.