The American Freedom Network

What is more important

Voltaire is supposed to have said “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

In the U.S. we have the first amendment, although it is assaulted by the PC collectivists with regularity. Their position seems to be that people’s hypersensitive “right” (imagined and made up) not to be “offended” trumps the right of others to express themselves freely.

In Canada, Maclean’s Magazine and Mark Steyn (one of their authors) is being “tried” by an extra-legal “human rights” commission.

My favorite xenophobe, Pat Buchanan does understand freedom. He calls out the collectivists’ penchant for suppressing free speech quite well today.

Why don’t the nanny’s understand that no one has a “right” to emotional calm and isolation. That “sticks and stones may break your bones but names can never hurt you”. Arbitrary definitions of “hate” speech not only can’t be measured but no one has the ability to divine the emotional motivation of others’ speech. So I am quite in line with Voltaire’s statement. Strange how our dedication to liberty can be perverted to suppress the same by the socialist left.