http://evilbender.wordpress.com/2006/05/02/free-speech-phelps-banners/ poetry, politics, reason, morality Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:30:49 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://evilbender.wordpress.com/2006/05/02/free-speech-phelps-banners/#comment-219 marshwiggle Wed, 03 May 2006 10:57:00 +0000 https://evilbender.wordpress.com/2006/05/02/free-speech-phelps-banners/#comment-219 Good point made above. Free speech zones do indeed have the dark side of un-free speech zones. Quite a difficult balance, if balance could even be attributed to it. Good point made above. Free speech zones do indeed have the dark side of un-free speech zones. Quite a difficult balance, if balance could even be attributed to it.

]]> http://evilbender.wordpress.com/2006/05/02/free-speech-phelps-banners/#comment-218 little.hoot.owl Wed, 03 May 2006 07:14:00 +0000 https://evilbender.wordpress.com/2006/05/02/free-speech-phelps-banners/#comment-218 The problem is that we have already started down the slippery slope of blanket bans, and it started with the idea of "free speech zones" in universities and at political events. Free speech zones naturally create a blanket ban everywhere else on that campus, convention center grounds, etc. We either have free speech everywhere or we don't have it at all. The problem is that we have already started down the slippery slope of blanket bans, and it started with the idea of “free speech zones” in universities and at political events. Free speech zones naturally create a blanket ban everywhere else on that campus, convention center grounds, etc. We either have free speech everywhere or we don’t have it at all.

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