Two posts, in two days, about the importance of the First Amendment

 

Sometimes I get very passionate about a topic and just can’t stop writing about it.

DS&P Magazine found this out the hard way when I wrote these two posts in the last two days.

Please Stop Telling the First Amendment to Cover up, She’s Sexiest Just the Way She is

Do I despise Westboro Baptist Church? I don’t think there is anyone who doesn’t, honestly, but that doesn’t make what Anonymous is doing right. Which is, sadly, something I’ve seen conservatives saying since Anonymous announced their intentions toward WBC. Not only that, but they want to exclude Westboro from the first amendment because they “intentionally cause emotional distress.”

You are doing the first amendment wrong here and you can’t claim to support it, while cheering on people that are illegally curtailing someone’s freedom to speak their mind, posting their names and addresses and encouraging death threats, hacking their website, shutting down their social networks; and while you advocate for restrictions of free speech.

I don’t always agree with the Supreme Court, that is obvious, but one decision I have agreed with from the very beginning was the 8 to 1 decision in favor of Westboro Baptist in the Snyder v. Phelps case.

It was a victory for free speech of every kind.

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“Can I Order The Constitution, but Change the ‘Free Speech’ Side to an Order of ‘Non-Offensive Language’?”

Nor do you forget your support of the first amendment just because you don’t like the person who is being suppressed, by legal or illegal means. Unfortunately that is not what I’m hearing from conservatives who are saying “well Anonymous sucks, but they got it right this time.”

No, they didn’t. What they are doing is equally bad, whether they do it to Westboro Baptist, or Americans for Prosperity, Fox News, or the Israeli government.

It’s technological thuggery and terrorism and becoming a moral relativist suddenly, just because Anonymous is attacking someone you don’t like, is not right.

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