Freedom of Speech
The latest entry in the Republican’s 289 part series “Destroying Your Freedoms to Protect Them” is Newt Gingrich’s idea that we may need to put some limits on free speech, and he said this at a freedom of speech dinner. Maybe he was joking. He has to be, right?
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich yesterday said the country will be forced to reexamine freedom of speech to meet the threat of terrorism.
Gingrich, speaking at a Manchester awards banquet, said a “different set of rules” may be needed to reduce terrorists’ ability to use the Internet and free speech to recruit and get out their message.
“We need to get ahead of the curve before we actually lose a city, which I think could happen in the next decade,” said Gingrich, a Republican who helped engineer the GOP’s takeover of Congress in 1994.
Is this really what we’ve come to? I don’t even have the energy to refute this moronic position. If Newt wants to limit free speech he should start by shutting the hell up.
Yea Newt, they can’t POSSIBLY hate the U.S. because our government and corporations have opressed and murdered them. Stop doing that and the problem goes away, duh! Not excusing terrorists’ actions at all, but there is an obvious cause.