| This is the essential things people just can't seem to GRASP.
In order to have "equal rights", that means occasionally the individual is going to be visually, audibly or olfactorily offended at some times, and not others. If you have "equal rights" and "free speech", there is only one acceptable form of equality to stay within the definition of "equal". All or none.
To wear a swastika or any other "symbol" of ideology or belief would be "equal" to wearing a cross or a religious pendant.
As someone I dislike said, who I invariably must agree with....
``If you can't say Fuck, you can't say, Fuck the government.''
-Lenny Bruce
This is the same concept with liberty. All or none, is all that is "equal". That is why the constitution was worded the way it was, so that all people, understanding common english, could grasp and understand the clear intention of the document to limit the federal governments intrusion and "decision making" for its citizens.
If people want to limit free speech in their own home, it is their right, but THEIR RESPONSIBLITY. The manufacturers, broadcasters, and networks are not MEANT to be responsible to idiot proof the system so irresponsible parents or religious folk dont have to hear words or topics THEY find disagreeable.
Liberty is well defined by the forefathers, as is justice and equal. Their definitions are all that are acceptable, since they drew up the document based on the meanings they expressed and outlined. Any modern interpretation must be held to those standards, or it is simply, unconstitutional. Period.
Petition of Redress of Grievances:
http://www.givemeliberty.org/default.htm
Canadian Lawsuit Against Their National Banks:
http://www.freewebs.com/classaction/
Osborn F. Enready |