When we fix this country, "Free Speech Zones" should be the first thing we trash!

[Bonobo]

Even the name "free speech zone"... What kind of evil bastard thought of THAT.

Free Speech Zones are a shameful embarrasment to our country and constitution.

[karlrschneider]

1. Silly me, I thought America was a 'free speech zone'...

Did they repeal the First Amendment while I was shopping this morning?
:eyes: :mad:

[Bonobo]

2. Actually, it has been going on since 1988.

[redqueen]

4. LET'S ELECT ANOTHER CLINTON!

:woohoo:

[karlrschneider]

7. True dat.

Wait, I'd put it about 8 years earlier...the roots, anyway.

[Henryman]

10. You're right. They've been around.

I went to the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1996. I remember the weird feeling I had when I passed the Free Speech Zones.

[Speck Tater]

3. You're right!

Fred Phelps has the right to stand at the alter, next to the preacher and protest when a gay couple marries.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. Ain't that the slippery slope fallacy?

[Bonobo]

6. There's slipery slopes on all sides, however...

Any reasonable person would agree that political speech is a right, but hate speech is not.

So that argument doesn't fly.

Fred Phelps also has the right to have a brick thrown at his head by an anonymous admirer.

[karlrschneider]

8. He was here in Wagoner, OK a while back protesting a soldier's funeral

(actually I don't know if he personally showed up, I never saw him, or your brick scenario may have been factual), but I did find one of their cars parked on the highway and was present when the valves mysteriously popped out of their tire stems. :evilgrin:

[Bonobo]

9. Sigh... They just don't make tire stems like they used to...

LOL

:toast:

[Richard Steele]

11. Musta been some of them chinese tires i heared about on the TeeVee !

That's the only explanation that makes sense! :evilgrin:

[karlrschneider]

13. That's gotta be it! Surely it had nothing to do with

[Speck Tater]

16. Scrap free speech zones and enact harassment free zones.

That would satisfy me. Just as long as I have the right to exclude "free speech" harassment from some private function of my own. I have the right to gather with friends and not be harassed for it. That should include a new age fortune telling convention being free of Christian harassment, and a Republican organization's meeting being free of tree-hugger harassment.

[Bill McBlueState]

12. how's this?

cheap, but it gets the point across...

[karlrschneider]

15. No kidding. Arrgh

:hi:

[VP505]

14. The term

"HOMELAND" ought to go with it. I hate hearing that Nazi terminology!

[BornagainDUer]

17. I'd like to see some, many if possible: "Freedom from religion zones"

[dkofos]

18. That would be my house!!

[BornagainDUer]

20. Hee, hee. Good to hear it.

:hi:

[spanone]

19. shouldn't AMERICA be a 'free speech zone'?