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Sen. Markey....

pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
edited May 2014 in Politics
....and your freedom of speech..http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2014/04/experts_markey_proposal_may_threaten_free_speech
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  • casper1947casper1947 Member Posts: 1,147 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You have to love the media.

    "U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey (DEMOCRAT-MASS) wants the government to study and recommend ways to stop the Internet, TV and radio from "encouraging hate crimes," but First Amendment advocates say the bill is a menace to free speech."

    I have a simplistic, perhaps too simple, a view of Freedom of Speech. As an American you have a Constitutional Right to be offended by what someone says. It's your right to speak up about it. Then suck it up and live with it. It's also their right to say it. Slander or Liable being the obvious exceptions.

    As far as the * HOE in CA is concerned, if he wants' to be a racist so be it. It's your choice to go to the games or not. Sign the multimillion dollar contract or not. I have not heard of anything he has done that impacted anyone adversely. I don't see where he is any more of a racist than the Rev Al Sharpton.

    But for God's sake let's not turn "Freedom of Speech" into "Freedom of Speech shall not be infringed."[;)]
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    freedom of speech was denied a basketball franchise owner...someone wanted to get a club on the cheap...bet me...
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  • RocklobsterRocklobster Member Posts: 7,060 ✭
    edited November -1
    Sterling should stand up and say "I said what I said, and I believe what I believe. I'm sorry that it became public knowledge, but it was a private conversation and the dirtbag is the one who made it public. You can publicly run off at the mouth about how 'White men can't jump, or Whitey got no rythm, or Whitey can't dance, or Don't Whitey talk funny' and it's Oh ha ha real funny and nobody gives a damn about whether Whitey is offended or not. Well I'm not selling a damned thing. I'll let it fall apart first, force all the ball dribblers to find another job. You want $2.5 million? Line your tall, skinny, ball-bouncing a$$es up and come take it."
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Political Correctness is dividing the nation ,If you call me a S.O.B is that any different than me calling you a Negroe?
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