Free speech
It is amazing how many social justice warriors despise liberty and freedom of speech. Evidently they are ignorant of history and the cause of great tyranny throughout mankind which is all the little tyrants that make a habit of despising liberty and freedom of speech.
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." George Washington
“Censorship is to art, as lynching is to justice.” – Henry Louis Gates.
"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." Mark Twain.
Freedom of Speech includes the Freedom of Religion which includes a freedom of self government which was the "conversation" of the early Christian people who were a free community.
2 Peter 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; Audio files
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Free Speech
The word censored comes from the Latin term censere, "to assess". In Rome the "Censor" was a magistrate whose duties included monitoring public morality and conduct. They also included maintaining the census and He was the overseer of certain finances of the government.
His power became absolute and there were no other magistrate who could oppose or over rule his decisions.
It is from that office we get the modern meaning of the words censor and censorship and Rome got ruled by tyrants.
Free speech is an essential element in the individual quest for truth and requires a free conversation among individuals within society in order to overcome bias, prejudice, and delusion.
Any hesitation, resistance, or opposition on the allowance of the free exchange of ideas through language and other forms of communication is evidence of Ideological discrimination.[1]
What is Free speech?
Is free speech important to the health of a free society?
Hate speech
The most hateful speech throughout history has been no speech at all because if "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing "<Re>The quote, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”[2] then it is certainly equally true that "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men say nothing."
If they do say it but are censored then censorship becomes an act of hatred and the censor a doer if evil.
Censored speech
Not only the censoring of public speech should be barred by the bands of society but the social bonds of society should also include an abhorrence to censorship in every conversation of man.
No speech between the people should be censored unless itself is a crime to plot or perpetrate an injury or harm others without due cause.
Nor is a bearing of false witness to do damage to people or persons acceptable.
Nor to seduce the youth or the cognitively infirm with malicious intent or a desire for unwarranted gain.
Free speech - Quotes and cases
Speaking of Free speech
- "Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.” – Henry Louis Gates.
- “You win a debate with a better argument, not by force.” – Frank Sonnenberg.
- “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell.
- "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
George Washington
- "Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light." George Washington
- "Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech." Benjamin Franklin."
- "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." Mark Twain
- "Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent." Alan Dershowitz
- "Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives." Robert Kennedy
- "It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing."
Herodotus
“The smell of the printer's ink is the incense of modern revolutionary organization.” Nicholas Bonneville in 1789
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“Thanks to printing and the press, we have today means of intellectual propaganda that the ancients did not imagine. Without going to converse in the shops and preach in the squares, we send the radiations of our thoughts directly in the hearts of men of good will.” Theophile Thore, defended himself at his trial in 1840.
“For let us be honest in facing this fundamental fact: Those who cultivate competence, accuracy, and intellectual honesty tend to be the smallest segment of the journalistic community, their audience the smallest sector of the public.” The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information Jean Francois Revel.
Case Law
"A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purposes when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it presses for acceptance of an idea." Writing for the court, Terminiello v. Chicago, 337 U.S. 1 (1949)
"No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper, and deliver his sermon without asking anyone's permission. The contrary suggestion is abhorrent to our traditions." Dissenting, Poulos v. New Hampshire, 345 U.S. 395 (1953)
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- ↑ Ideological discrimination may be on the grounds of political, religious or other ideology, and may include not only discrimination but bigotry and hate which leads to segregation, cancelation, banning, and if allowed to go un challenged will eventually usher in genocide and extermination of both small and large segments of society.
- ↑ Often attributed to Edmund Burke erroneously. The philosopher John Stuart Mill, in an 1867 inaugural address at the University of St. Andrews did state: “Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.”