"-=jd=-" wrote in message
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On Thu 06 May 2004 10:39:42p, tommyknocker wrote in
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Brian Hill wrote:
"-=jd=-" wrote in message
Well, Brian, the cat's out of the bag now!
Seriously, I find it particularly perplexing when someone complains
their right to free speech trumps someone else's right to free
speech.
It usually surfaces from someone with a liberal viewpoint. For
instance:
The Dixie-Chick(s) start "singing the blues" when they realize that
the right to express an opinion works both ways. That they never
considered someone's right to free speech could include advocating a
boycott of their products reeks of either rank naivety, or extreme
eliteism.
Tim Robbins - How dare someone else use their right of free speech to
criticize me.
Michael Moore - Same thing.
John "Two-Face" Kerry - Same thing.
J. Garafolo(?) - Same Thing
etc. etc. etc...
Now, I'm sure such vocal proponents of free speech and public debate
DO NOT have any intent to strip those same rights away anyone else.
It's just very difficult to try and understand the mind-set that on
the one hand is a most vociferous supporter of free-speech, yet
routinely equates any free speech criticism directed at them as
somehow different from their right to criticize...
You nailed it jd!. Liberals hate to be critiqued in any way shape or
form. It hurts their sence of moral superiority 
It's not only liberals. Look at the Bush Administration's suggesting
that criticizing the war is treasonous while at the same time insisting
they're in it for freedom's sake. AND it's not only the elites-the
average guy seems to be all for free speech as long as it's his free
speech and not anybody else's, an attitude which allows the elite to get
away with it. There's a reason that free speech is the first of the
rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.
It's no different than what I said earlier - There's nothing
constitutionally wrong with defeatist remarks about either the war on
terrorism or the troops in harms way. There's also nothing
constitutionally wrong with anyone else criticizing those defeatist
remarks as damaging to the moral of those very troops and encouraging to
the enemy.
So, you think it's wrong when someone else points out the impact of
defeatist rhetoric as if it's oppression -yet- by your very demands, you
are insisting counter opinions be either outright suppressed or given less
weight.
I just find it difficult to understand the logic behind that
interpretation of free-speech...
-=jd=-
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