RE: Did Charlottesvilel mean anything?
September 4, 2017 at 9:31 pm
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2017 at 9:41 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(September 4, 2017 at 2:22 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(September 4, 2017 at 2:12 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I stand up against any political violence, no matter the perpetrators.
Show that they committed political violence, then arrest those who committed it. Absolutely. Violence is an act of oppression AGAINST free speech, and I for sure wouldn't stand for that.
We're definitely in agreement here. It's my opinion that the right to free speech was emplaced here in America not to protect popular speech, but unpopular speech; and I will support that, even though it means my donations to the ACLU go to defend the rights of people whose views I regard as anathema.
Once you've picked up arms to silence speech either by threat or by snuffing out the speaker, I will speak out against you, no matter your political persuasion.
That has been the case with some Americans. Some have acted to silence free speech through violence or its threat. The torchlight parade was such a threat, which resulted in a death the next day. They can surely march, but they don't have the right to be free of disagreement, and the certainly do not have the right to quell disagreement with violence.
These people are terrified of words for a reason.
