Friday, July 08, 2005
It's a good thing that the existence of our
constitutional liberties doesn't rest on the talent and good judgment of
the people who exercise them.
The State could make even the most hardened libertarian rethink the First Amendment.
The First Amendment
protects free speech, regardless of content (outside of a few narrow exceptions). I don't care what the Supreme Court says about permissable restriction on commercial speech, or political speech, or whatever. That's what the plain text says.
People with an interest in our nation's founding era will immediately recognize that this was primarily to protect dissent from political prosecution.
So what does
The State choose to use its First Amendment rights for? Why to
genuflect, supplicate, and generally boot-lick before Lindsey Graham! It's an affront to the rambunctious independence displayed by our founders.
Oh well. No nation can be the home of
only the brave. Each one must also have its share of the weak and timid, those who quiver before power.
Posted by Bill Smith at 9:03 AM |
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