I'm not sure why I'm writing this tonight but here we go.  I have had more than enough of people on the left for crying censorship or opression whenever some one has the gaul to air an opposing view point.  What the fuck is wrong with you people?  You think your being opressed, hardly.  A young man in Tehran who is dragged out of his house for blogging about how thing really are is being opressed, the Russian reporter gunned down in the elevator of her apartment building is being opressed in the most brutal way, ditto the North Korean who is locked away in a gulag to slave away their years for being related to someone who noted that the troll doll seems to be doing fairly  in the body fat percentage department well for the leader of a famine riddled country.  The are opressed, their media is censored.  Remeber that the right to free speech is the right to offend, and that no matter what it does not give you the right to be heard!!!!  I am disgusted by people who use the so called fairness doctrine as an excuse to attack opposing viewpoints and their means of dissemination.  That is censorship, the government has no right nor power to controll what is said by anyone, since it is a right given to us by nature!  Rights derive from the very act of being human, no one can take them away.  The only limit that nay be placed upon speech is that which will bring physical harm to others.  This is the so called fire doctrine, any other form of speech is protected no matter how repugnant it may be.  In the end we all have the right to say whatever we wish, but we may also be ignored, but that is the peril of speaking.  Better to try to be heard than remain silent.

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