RE: Assault On Free Speech
August 1, 2012 at 9:22 am
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2012 at 9:34 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm sorry, aren't we discussing a business here? Is anyone being silenced, you know, a human being? Is anyone being barred from entering a city, you know, a human being? That the mayor's (apparently now retracted) comments on this matter were a bit ridiculous doesn't alter the fact that characterizing this as an issue of free speech is equally ridiculous. Last I checked, anybody who wants to hop up on top of a box in the middle of a square with a sign expressing their pov is free to do so. I also don't see anything -even in the mayors absurd response- that indicates that anyone was looking to legislate what anyone at chick-fil-a (or, even chick-fil-a itself, as a business, as hilarious as that is to me) could say.
If someone told me that I could not open a business in their city due to some difference of opinion I had with them, they wouldn't have a leg to stand on, not because they are infringing upon my free speech, but because there is no legislation that allows them to bar me from conducting business based upon a difference of opinion. If our "difference of opinion" was instead related to something illegal, say I wanted to set up a whorehouse, and I was barred from doing so -it wouldn't be because I was expressing my right to free speech in championing the virtues of my whorehouse- it would be an issue of the product I was offering being illegal. People can have opinions, people can run businesses, these two issues are not always related, and personally, I fail to see why this particular issue is being handled as such, except (imho) to perpetuate the persecution narrative that has become so common from one specific segment of our population.
Change the channel.
If someone told me that I could not open a business in their city due to some difference of opinion I had with them, they wouldn't have a leg to stand on, not because they are infringing upon my free speech, but because there is no legislation that allows them to bar me from conducting business based upon a difference of opinion. If our "difference of opinion" was instead related to something illegal, say I wanted to set up a whorehouse, and I was barred from doing so -it wouldn't be because I was expressing my right to free speech in championing the virtues of my whorehouse- it would be an issue of the product I was offering being illegal. People can have opinions, people can run businesses, these two issues are not always related, and personally, I fail to see why this particular issue is being handled as such, except (imho) to perpetuate the persecution narrative that has become so common from one specific segment of our population.
Change the channel.
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