Free Speech?
I know this is a normal cycle of happenings when a shift in power occurs in our country.
People whose person didn't get elected get scared and think the other guys are going to run rampant and turn our country into [insert nightmarish outcome here].
Consider the ongoing review of our Bill of Rights.
One thing folks seem to forget is that Freedom of Speech covers a range of issues. It should be collectively looked at from time to time to be sure it isn't being abused. For example, recent online gatherings of militia groups ready (and planning) for succession.
One blogger [who shall remain nameless in fear, yes fear that I will get flooded by death threats for a third time in so many weeks] has been claiming that the US is going to run out of food, so people need to stockpile dry goods and non-perishables alongside their weapons to protect said food.
"People will kill for food if they get desperate enough" wrote the blogger, to which 178 zombies replied, "Yes, master".
The other side of the coin is people trying to squash freedom of speech, namely trying to ban books from publicly funded schools.
Case in point:
If a nation's ethics are so bound to the books it reads, and it's people cannot be responsible for their own thinking, then that nation does not deserve to be free.
Banning books is an act of cowards, dullards and lay-abouts.
I would add the group known as "obsequious crack lickers" (Stephen Colbert 3.5.09 about Dittoheads), but that's another post entirely.
