Free speech is free so long as you don't try to use it...

[kentuck]

Then you will see the weapons bought to silence you with.

They thought they were free...

The people have no choice. Our government is not working for the people. Therefore the people have a duty to speak up. The occupations are necessary. They are for the people.

The police and the authorities are attacking everyone for the actions of a few.

[idiotgardener]

1. Yup then it turns into pay-as-you-go.

[Fumesucker]

2. Forty years later and things haven't really changed a damn bit..

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/The-Ostrich-lyrics-Steppenwolf/8726232E5D06F1D148256DD7000FFBCC

The Ostrich

Words and music by John Kay

We'll call you when you're six years old
And drag you to the factory
To train your brain for eighteen years
With promise of security
But then you're free
And forty years you waste to chase the dollar sign
So you may die in Florida
At the pleasant age of sixty nine

The water's getting hard to drink
We've mangled up the country side
The air will choke you when you breathe
We're all committing suicide
But it's alright
It's progress folks keep pushin' till your body rots
Will strip the earth of all it's green
And then divide her into parking lots

But there's nothing you and I can do
You and I are only two
What's right and wrong is hard to say
Forget about it for today
We'll stick our heads into the sand
Just pretend that all is grand
Then hope that everything turns out ok

You're free to speak your mind my friend
As long as you agree with me
Don't criticize the father land
Or those who shape your destiny
'Cause if you do
You'll lose your job your mind and all the friends you knew
We'll send out all our boys in blue
They'll find a way to silence you

But there's nothing you and I can do
You and I are only two
What's right and wrong is hard to say
Forget about it for today
We'll stick our heads into the sand
Just pretend that all is grand
Then hope that everything turns out ok

[Journeyman]

3. The man in my avatar believed he had the right to remain silent. . .

Dalton Trumbo went to prison 60+ years ago because he believed freedom of speech included the right to be silent.

The government believed otherwise.

Thwarted from utilizing his defense of choice, that his actions constituted freedom of speech and were thus outside the government's purview, he invoked his 5th amendment protections and was sent to prison for contempt of congress.


"If freedom of speech is to have any practical application, then it must include the right to be silent, and the right to not share with my neighbors and friends those opinions which I prefer to keep to myself, or which I have not sufficiently developed so as to feel comfortable sharing."

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. Lawsuits, lawsuits, lawsuits, and recordings can be used in lawsuits. That's all I'll say nt

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

5. It wasn't your guns that they wanted, it was your voices.

[indepat]

6. When the Congress is not responsive, wholly ignores, what 68% or so of the people

want, when the Congress wholly ignores the promote the general welfare doctrine while catering almost exclusively to large corporations and the uber-wealthy, the time is long past when a OWS-type movement should have taken roots 'cause McConnell, Boehner, Cantor, Ryan et al having been giving the 99% the figurative middle finger with panache and gusto and literally giving us a big fuck you. :patriot:

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. Free to use if you're a teapublican. Use both the first and second and the cops leave them

alone.