Free Speech SLAPPed Silent

By Brian Webber

Among the small crowd of protestors outside the Grammys this past Wendsday stood a man with a sign using those very words.

I agree with that brave man wholeheartedly. When Dr. Laura began speaking with all that homophobic language, did I protest? Well sort of. I never listened to her radio show anyway. I refused to watch her TV show. And look what happened! It got cancelled. Becuase of the protests and angry letters? Nope. It got canned due to lack of ratings.

Same should go for Eminem. When people stop buying his albums, he'll go away.

Or, to paraphrase Melissa Etheridge, "What gives me the right to say you can't say certain things, but I can say whatever I want?" That's being hippocritical. The first amendment guarantees free speech to all. Not free speech to some.

As much as I hate the KKK and the Neo-Nazis, I stood by the ACLU's decision to prevent banning their presence. Call em a racist if you wish, but remember this; Not everyone in the ACLU is a heterosexual white male.

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