Reply #30: freedom has responsibility

[sweetheart]

I think we get too far down the road of "freedom" without recognizing
that we all live on the same planet, and that there are ripple
effects.

"I call for the USA to be broken up." == sedition, a crime under
the constition.

There area already more checkpoints on free speech, inappropriate ones,
than we would both prefer. Myself i'm not inclined to calling "fire"
in a theatre a crime either... but a pile of trampled dead bodies
might call it a crime.

I am for no limits on freedom, but as well, total responsibility
for the results of exercising freedom. If you freely drive your
car and kill someone, it has crossed the line. Speech has that
line as well... not george bush's pathetic calls for authoritarian
control, but our civil society's need to clamp down on hate crime
and its many causes. Speech inappropriately used, is but one cause,
and in a rare case, can be criminal.

What should scare you, is the fact that so many people are so
ignorant, that free speech is used to spread hatred and violence.

Bottom line, we're ruled by a criminal felon who should be in the
dock on war crimes. Until that error is fixed, black is white, and
american ethics and law are just a pathetic joke of power against
the poor and disenfranchised.