On Friday, May 2, 2003, at 11:18 AM, Matt Beland wrote:
Besides - what's the fucking point of supporting freedom of speech if you keep telling people to shut up?
In order. First, "freedom of speech" is a legal issue, not a matter of whether one likes or supports or gives a platform for speech. This has been covered many times. Second, I have no power to make people shut up. As for "telling" them, I don't. I do wonder why they are on the list given the implications of the technologies. I don't think they've realized the implications for their world view and for the breeders and useless eaters they support.
You're dangerously close to sounding like those cranks who claim they're being patriotic by attacking the Dixie Chicks for their speech.
And as in that debate, where "free speech" is tossed around a lot, nothing in the Dixie Chicks case has involved freedom of speech in any way whatsoever. Think about it. --Tim May "Ben Franklin warned us that those who would trade liberty for a little bit of temporary security deserve neither. This is the path we are now racing down, with American flags fluttering."-- Tim May, on events following 9/11/2001