Weasel_Loader
Active Member
Atticus said:The problem with free speech is that .01% of it pisses off 99.9% of the population...but that .01% is the part that lets us know if a government really does allow freedom of expression. Here in the USA, nazi brown shirts and skinheads routinely march in our city streets. It pisses off the NAACP, Zionists, the VFW and everyone else, but if nazis and shinheads can't march...then the 1st Amendment doen't really mean what it says.
But Peter raises a good point. Legislation like our 1st Amendment protects unpopular speech from government suppression. It doesn't protect brown shirt musicians from getting their faces stomped in dark alleys by good 'ol boys.
AF
Couldn't have said it any better myself!