{"id":32143,"date":"2012-09-25T19:41:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T23:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32143"},"modified":"2012-09-25T19:41:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T23:41:52","slug":"slate-that-useless-1st-amendment-needs-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32143","title":{"rendered":"Slate: That useless 1st Amendment needs to change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr Wolf sends us a link to Ace of Spades<\/a> who links to Slate<\/a>, whose Eric Posner who belittles Americans for clinging bitterly to that pesky 1st Amendment thingie;<\/p>\n

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Americans need to learn that the rest of the world\u2014and not just Muslims\u2014see no sense in the First Amendment. Even other Western nations take a more circumspect position on freedom of expression than we do, realizing that often free speech must yield to other values and the need for order.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unlike Mr Posner, I’ve lived in parts of the world where the freedom to speak one’s mind isn’t as protected as it is in this country, and it’s not so pleasant. But, then, I was in those places to defend Mr Posner’s right to have an idiot opinion in the safety of his home, so maybe I’m a little more sensitive to idiot opinions like Mr Posner’s. <\/p>\n

Funny how the Left is always the first to complain about the their perceived loss of their free speech rights, until now when it’s inconvenient and makes us look foolish to the rest of the world. I don’t know about Mr Posner’s antecedents, but mine came here to enjoy the freedoms from the very same countries that Posner claims are ridiculing us for our freedoms. <\/p>\n

Remember Mark Steyn’s problems in Canada when he crossed the government’s sensibilities by criticizing islam? Or Bridgette Bardot’s 30,000 franc fines by the French government when she criticized the ritual slaughter of sheep by Muslims in France in her book “Le Carr\u00e9 de Pluton”? Are we willing to surrender our freedoms in the same manner just because the rest of the world doesn’t like it or thinks it’s silly? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mr Wolf sends us a link to Ace of Spades who links to Slate, whose Eric … Slate: That useless 1st Amendment needs to change<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}