The most responsible thing we can do is be aware that the most likely threat to freedom will now come from within. We cannot, should not, police our own thoughts – or the thoughts of our fellow citizens. Because the First Amendment does not just protect our free speech; it protects all expression, including religion... The idea of human rights is a relatively new one to human society, only a few hundred years old. It’s a part of our intellectual outlook now, inextricable from our daily lives, but it is still making its way into our hearts, our DNA. I can only hope that tragedies like the one in Paris would make our ideals [around freedom, freedom of speech, human rights] stronger, not weaker. Is that an ideal worth dying for? I think it is. Should anyone ever have to pay for it with blood? I pray to God not. And it doesn’t really matter that I don’t quite know how to believe in God. Today, I’m praying anyway. —Excerpt from the article, by Joe Randazzo, writer, satirist, comedian and the former Editor of The Onion msnbc/msnbc/former-onion-editor-freedom-speech-cannot-be-killed
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 21:27:47 +0000
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