armalite41 opened this issue on Apr 08, 2005 ยท 71 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Sun, 10 April 2005 at 2:51 PM
Freedom of speech is freedom of speech. For jerks and nice people and all in between.
On the floor of Congress, this might be true. Especially whenever Robert Byrd or Teddy Kennedy open their mouths and flap their gums.
But in a restaurant across the street from the Capital building? Would jerks be welcome to say anything that they like publicly in that sort of environment? Nope.
As has been pointed out time and time again -- Renderosity is a private business. Not the House floor.
I.E. -- Jerks aren't welcome.
As an alternative, they can try yelling at people on the streetcorner, instead. Then they can scream about their "free speech" rights being violated as they are hauled off to the pokey for disturbing the peace.
The principle of "Free speech" does not confer a blanket right to use one's mouth as a weapon.