Jeffrey Goldberg, national correspondent for The Atlantic, responded to Brzezinski, explaining that “in the First Amendment . . . the goal is not to protect inoffensive speech. We have free speech to protect what many people would call offensive speech.” “Our goal in the West is to allow people to say what they want even if it’s offensive and painful — that’s the principle. That’s a sacred ideal of France. It’s a sacred ideal of the U.S.,” Goldberg added. This is too obvious to have to say. And it’s appalling that anyone has to say it, particularly in response to the words of a former high-level national security official. Yet Brzezinski undoubtedly knows this. The point is: He doesn’t care. He doesn’t care to distinguish between the criminal actions of murderers and what he considers perhaps the equally criminal actions of “insulting” someone, or at least insulting someone else’s prophet … at least when that prophet is Muslim.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 19:49:27 +0000