Our Freedom of Expression Is Killing Us

[frazzled]

71. Then maybe you should ...

venture right over to Benghazi and try explaining it to them. If you're willing to die, you know.

I think you may have a limited perception of what the problem is. For people who have lived for generations, if not millennia, under regimes in which if you said the wrong thing you were imprisoned, tortured, or worse ... it's difficult to understand why the American government would "allow" this. To many of them, failure to suppress such hateful speech is an explicit endorsement of it. It becomes the government's own speech and own policy in their eyes. And if you were them, it might make sense. Just as the (nonviolent) reaction they are having doesn't make sense to you.

But: Will you die for Glenn Beck or Terry Jones? I wouldn't. Honestly, I wouldn't.