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As happy as I am, and I am! I am also torn. I loathe Fred Phelps, you all know that. And I'm glad he was held accountable, but there is a big part of me that is saying NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! FIRST AMMENDMENT!!!!!

 Of course not near as big as the part that's going WOOOOOOO_HOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Eat that Rev. Bigot!

Even though I fight and oppose this guy with every chance I get, and as happy as I am, there's just a little something that I'm not quite comfortable with. And I think it's the concept of "drawing the line" with free speech. Once you draw it, it tends to keep moving, a moving line of what is, and is not, free speech. The line changes direction as the political zeitgeist holds sway.

The line, like free speech itself, is a two edged sword. What we like now, we may come to hate, should things change.

We should be damn careful if we do decide to draw it.

That being said.  EAT THAT YOU BIGOTED PSYCHO!!

 

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frankly, I don't get it by Rob Kall on Thursday, Nov 1, 2007 at 6:10:36 PM
Phelps by Mad Jayhawk on Thursday, Nov 1, 2007 at 9:07:54 PM
PRECEDENT OF BANNING SPEECH ALWAYS DANGEROUS by rhalfhill on Friday, Nov 2, 2007 at 2:35:00 AM

 
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