David McSwane and CSU’s editorial
The CSU editor, McSwane, gets reprimanded?? If I went to my boss and said F-the President, I would be fired, not consulted. If I published it in the company newsletter I might be brought up on charges; not because I was exercising my right to speech, but for discrediting my company. McSwane shouldn’t be fired for using the F-word, the Onion uses it all the time, but he should be fired for exceptionally bad judgment. He’s cost his paper $30,000.00 in advertising revenue, and some of his fellow students their jobs.
Free speech isn’t absolute. Technically the RMN could legally publish a headline that read: “F-itty, eFF, eFF, eFF the Government,” but it wouldn’t, even it felt that way, because it’s foolish to do so. You can’t yell “Fire” in a movie theater and you can’t threaten the President; free speech is not absolute, nor should it be. Almost anything goes, this is true with speech and religion; but when a religion calls for you to hack off the head of the non-believer, your freedom of religion ends there, and should end sooner than even that extreme.
What extreme Leftists seem to forget is that freedom is never absolute. You don’t have the freedom to kill your neighbor because he mows his lawn at 6:00 in the morning. You have to use a modicum of reason when exercising God’s gift of freedom. If the far left doesn’t understand this, then every standard we have grown to love will diminish a crumb at a time until there’s nothing left (pun intended).
The frog scenario has the reptile dying by getting into a cool pot of water that heats to a boil; right now we are collectively in the water and the bubbles are starting to form. Let’s hope we’re wiser than the frog.
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Bill phone-sex offender O'Reilly (draft evader)said, "the folks should dissent responsibly". TRANSLATION: Nearly 4K Iraq-NAM kids (targets and sitting ducks), sent to meet their "maker", by folks who themselves, haven't found anything they, or their own kids, are willing to die for (Bush, Lott, Rice, Cheney, DeLay, Hastert, Blair, etc.).
Posted by draftdodgingisntafamilyvalue on October 18, 2007 08:21 PMSorry Mark, you're definitely dumber than a frog.
Posted by on October 19, 2007 12:24 AMAnother thread is talking about zealotry being dangerous regardless of the direction from which it’s coming. Mark Thompson’s letter is a shining example of how extreme either side can be all the while thinking that they’re correct and everyone else is wrong. Mr. Thompson, your argument falls flat when you blame ‘the left’ for all the world’s ills. And did your God choose you to be HIS right-hand man and dole out judgment? It seems to me that the people on the far right are incapable of making a point and sticking to it. How did it get from a college newspaper printing a vulgar word to (paraphrase) “…God hates everyone on the left.” The kid printed it because he felt strongly about it and BECAUSE HE COULD. And leave it to an extreme money-loving God-fearing (in that order-after all, money’s a sure thing) conservative to place money over life-long lessons. Ten years from now whatever suffering from loss of ad space was endured will be long forgotten. But the critical thinking that this guy’s words prompted will be manifested in class discussions and debates for generations to come. He didn’t stay locked in a conservative little box. He dared to stir things up. Good for him!
Posted by Diana on October 19, 2007 02:02 AMIn the meantime, Bush is denounced in Congress as sending young kids over to Iraq to have their heads blown off so he (Bush) can get his enjoyment and to this I would say F Bush in a New York Second, and if granted a nano second, I'd say F F F Bush and lament that I would be censored if I spelled out the word. It is only a word: I reiterate mf is recognized in dictionary.com meaning the same as "wretch" an evil and despicable person, as in Amazing Grace.
Deicide Corner: "I had a good teacher. I can assure you, I am going to do what my daddy told me, and I am going to stand up and speak for the issues I care about." Jonathan Falwell [God help us: Falwell is still with us, RG]