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Originally posted by davesimondotcom: You don't have to stop criticizing the war or anything else while it's going on. It's your right. What I don't like is how people like the Dixie Chicks and Martin Sheen have complained that people no longer buying their products after they've weighed in being an attack on their "free speech." They act like there shouldn't be any effect to them having an opinion. Maybe they should ask Trent Lott if expressing yourself has an effect. Some people getting together and steamrolling Dixie Chicks CDs has nothing to do with the 1st Ammendment, except that both the Chicks and the people who bulldoze their stuff are expressing themselves freely. Now, if the United States Government were to jail the Dixie Chicks and order their CDs burned, I would be the first one to speak up. The problem I see is that people speak out and expect there to be no reaction. They try to make a martyr out of themselves and say "free speech!" |
I'd agree with you.
Althought there has been far too much attempts at censure from government officials, wouldn't you agree? FAR too much. I think the article aims at that rather than about simply pissing off your neighbors or the local Elks Lodge.
What your neighbors think of what you say or what some angry mob in the midwest might think is more a symptom of the breakdown of civil society rather than a breakdown of democratic society. That's another topic. Some people sure do hate other people's liberty.