Liberty Pen: John Stossel & Geert Wilders- 'Hate Speech Or Free Speech?'

Source:Liberty Pen- John Stossel interviewing Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders.

"Accusations of hate speech can be an effective politically correct pretense to either stifle free speech or to defend the undependable. Geert Wilders

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John Stossel had the perfect line right off the bat: "The Right and Left say they support free speech up to the point when it actually counts, when it's speech that they disagree with or when it offends them." Which is really what this debate is about, do we as Americans have the right to express ourselves and make our own views known, or not? I think the answer is obvious, but when you listen to fascists on the Far-Right and so-called social justice warriors on the Far-Left, they'll give you much different viewpoints and say that some speech is so dangerous that simply can't allow for it in a civilized society.

At least in America, I'm not going to speak for the rest of the world, we have a First Amendment. Which gives us the constitutional right to speak our minds, without being punished by government, as long as we are not libeling, or threatening to hurt, or kill people. In other words I can call Joe or Marry, (excuse the word assholes) but I can't threaten to kill or beat up Joe or Mary, or any of their friends or relatives, coworkers and vice-versa. And I can't call them a murderer in public, or something like that, without any evidence to back it up. 

If someone has been arrested for murder, I could then call them a murderer, the person or people responsible for murdering Bob, or Sally or whoever. The Supreme Court has been very consistent here, our First Amendment just doesn't protect political speech or news organizations, or Freedom of Religion, but the right for Americans to express themselves on anything, short of committing fraud, wildly libeling people, or calling for violence.