Look, Pamela Geller is in the same category as the KKK, Westboro Baptist, neo-Nazis, etc.

[DanTex]

She's horrible.

But she gets to say what she wants to say. Just like the rest of them. That's free speech. And shooting people is (much) worse than saying hateful bigoted things.

Free speech is good. Pamela Geller is bad. I'm not sure why this is controversial.

[NanceGreggs]

1. It is one thing to defend ...

... one's right of free speech in the face of that right being challenged or questioned, or when exercising that right becomes a gray area in law.

Geller KNEW she had a right to do what she did, promoted and advocated. There was NO challenge to be met, NO question of law to be addressed, NO gray area that needed to be settled.

She did what she did for the purpose of promoting her own hateful agenda. It served no other purpose, it addressed no other concern, it proved nothing about the exercise of free speech that was not already known to be permitted under the First Amendment.

I am truly appalled that anyone here would attempt to cover Geller's big, fat bigoted ass with a "freedom of speech", one-size-fits-all bumpersticker.