cicerone imposter wrote:Ask any soldier fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan, and they'll tell you that our "freedom of speech" is one of the things they are fighting for. Many people on the right would have you believe that restricting speech by our citizens is patriotic. What it is is "idiotic." That anyone could say anything they wish whether it's patently stupid or not is our countries right. It doesn't mean we must believe what they say, but offer differing opinions why it is stupid. Discourse should not be limited to what anybody considers "intelligent." That ends up being an oxymoron.
I think this notion that conservatives want to suppress criticism of the war is overblown, but it sure does present a rallying point for the Left.
No one, with any ability to reason, is calling for Dean to be literally gagged, imprisoned or executed.
I don't consider him a traitor, just an utterly venal partisan, but calling him a traitor is, in no way, the equivalent of gagging, imprisoning, or executing him for his opinions.
If we are compelled to tolerate the idiocy of Howard Dean because discourse should not be limited to "what anybody considers 'intelligent'," then we can hardly find fault with the idiots who call for Dean's gagging, imprisonment, or execution.
CI you have planted a stake in the ground, and you will be bound by it.
No I didn't. I picked up the quote from FreeDuck's post, and my knee-jerk reflex told me that this must be some idiotic rightwing talk radio host. Who would have thought it was an idiotic Democratic Congressman instead? My mistake.
