If the UK can do it....why the hell can't we?

[Tumbulu]

56. On DU there are all these clueless people who go on and on

about free speech somehow entitling the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Murdock to trash the collective imagination and sour all social discourse.

So, I think that it is useless engaging with them at all.

They seem to have no understanding of the enormity of the damage caused while having some sort of limited knowledge about the first amendment. Enough for them to waste all of our time on DU with negative comments.

I have decided to ignore them all as it is just pathetic.

There is a profound difference between the right to say what you want without arrest and the right the right to use public airwaves to disseminate hate speech and incite violence. The first amendment absolutely does not create a mechanism of taxpayer funded dissemination of hate speech. Or any speech. The choice in what to broadcast is up to the public through the political process.

We need to exercise the power that we do have. And fast.