Only Free Speech

There are those who say offensive words should be banned from public speech, oblivious to the fact that saying such is incredibly offensive to me. They prattle on, convinced that only their own ideas hold the truth, I wish I could say such madness was limited to the naïve youth. But the fact of the matter is quite clear, though it may stick in their craw, there’s no hate speech, only free speech, and free speech is natural law. We do not make exceptions for the ideas which we despise. A free man possesses, merely be being, The right to speak his mind. Nations that try to limit this, whatever their intentions may be, are committing evil against their own, are performing acts of tyranny. To silence voices that some dislike is an insult to both one and all, there’s no hate speech, only free speech, and free speech is natural law. So many forget that speech is more then the mere flapping of gums. Nations that can’t shout and debate are the ones that turn to guns. When there’s no way to voice concerns a person turns into a powder keg, what could be argued, loud and brash, quickly becomes smashing heads. The mayhem that this brings about is quite bloody, cruel, and raw, there’s no hate speech, only free speech, and free speech is natural law. Some will point to crass, vile bigots as a reason to silence the mass, forgetting that if you let bigots speak they usually fall on their ass. Others say it’s a social good to keep our words under control, but such thinking leads to work camps in places brutal, lost, and cold. It’s far time we reacquaint ourselves with what our Founding Fathers saw: There’s no hate speech, only free speech, and free speech is natural law.