“Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. To justify suppression of free speech, there must be reasonable ground to fear that serious evil will result if free speech is practiced.”
Stay with me this morning as we span this crazy globe in 600 words or less …
The forces of political correctness once vowed that, should they ever take over, their free expression on all kinds of issues — from gay rights to amnesty for illegals to space aliens inspiring the pyramids of ancient Egypt — would no longer be censored.
Dick Cheney concocted a bogus reason for war in Iraq and led his pliable president into turning his nation into an illegal torturer. Thus he was a monster.
The loud talkers who have been overheard threatening them with physical harm refer to them as “the heavyset black guy and the white guy that drives the Hummer,” says Earl White, who manages Walt Walters’ security and property management companies. “I was kind of disappointed because I’ve been losing weight.”
There is a side to most of us that loves to see the underdog win, the poor person do well, or the batter hit it out of the park down three runs with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the ninth.
