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Free Speech - what does it mean to you?
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:05 pm
by ModerateMuslim
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. - Colin Powell
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one....act that could most easily defeat us. - William O Douglas
when you've to censor - you've already lost!
Re: Free Speech - what does it mean to you?
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:06 pm
by ModerateMuslim
Re: Free Speech - what does it mean to you?
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:09 pm
by Haddad
Can you go to a police/military station in the UK, USA or Canada and exercise your right to Free Speech by saying "I support Osama bin Laden"? I am sure you can say "I support George W. Bush."
Re: Free Speech - what does it mean to you?
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:10 pm
by ModerateMuslim
Re: Free Speech - what does it mean to you?
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:14 pm
by BABYGIRL123
Free Speech is saying what you think but you also have to know your limits.
Re: Free Speech - what does it mean to you?
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:16 pm
by Haddad
Somali-Star wrote:free speech is objective.
No. Free speech applies to particular situations, circumstances, times, places, person, etc. Nothing will happen to you if you express support for a particular person. Something terrible will happen to you should you express support for a particular person. Just 5 words; "I support Osama bin Laden."
Re: Free Speech - what does it mean to you?
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:27 pm
by ModerateMuslim
BABYGIRL123 wrote:Free Speech is saying what you think but you also have to know your limits.
ok.
it's your right to put restrictions on free speech; just as it's my right to disagree.
haddad,
one should be allowed to say "i support osama bin laden" freely.
that's what it means IMHO.
