I'll draw a picture of whatever/whoever I want and don't care who it......

[Proud2BAmurkin]

offends.

The people screaming about the cartoons have no right to expect governments or media to censor them. PERIOD.

[appal_jack]

1. hear-hear!

Freedom of speech is an abstract matter until someone gets offended. That's when the rubber hits the road, and we find out who believes in fundamental rights, and who is ready to trade away liberty, and cheaply at that...

-app
:hi:

[Proud2BAmurkin]

2. Yup and if you believe in it for Americans you believe in it for ANYONE

It's not just an "American" right

[LittleClarkie]

3. There's a quote from "An American President"

That sums up my feelings:

"America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating, at the top of his lungs, that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free, then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest." Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free."

Which is why I was posting it all over a Cindy Sheehan thread a couple of days ago. I may wildly disagree with someone, but I support their right to express their opinion, however unpopular.