Gingrich calls for limiting free speech at a free speech awards dinner

[spike]

Nov. 28: At a dinner honoring the First Amendment, Newt Gingrich reportedly suggested a "different set of rules" might be necessary to stop terrorists using freedom of speech to get out their message. Keith Olbermann discusses the constitutionality of this with Jonathan Turley.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15951435/

 

[MrBishop]

JHC!!!
Has Newt flipped his lid?

Hey Newt! Isn't limiting free speech a tool used by The Nazis, China, North Korea, Iran, Iraq and pretty much every other petty dictator that ever was??

 

[spike]

Just part of the right's quest for bigger government and limitation of freedoms.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

At a dinner honoring the First Amendment

Was the Amendment present for the dinner? If so, what did the Amendment have to say about it?

 

[Professur]

JHC!!!
Has Newt flipped his lid?

Hey Newt! Isn't limiting free speech a tool used by The Nazis, China, North Korea, Iran, Iraq and pretty much every other petty dictator that ever was??

So was restricting access to guns.

 

[chcr]

So was restricting access to guns.

 

[BB]

So was restricting access to guns.

well you can add Epping forest local village council to that list of axis of evil an' all!

Old mrs withywindle and her friends at the W.I can be a bit touchy themselves, if you don't like rasberry jam!

 

[BB]

Was the Amendment present for the dinner? If so, what did the Amendment have to say about it?

... he took the fifth ... well, she was looking stunning in her liddle black dress! ...

 

[Professur]

... he took the fifth ... well, she was looking stunning in her liddle black dress! ...

Now that's funny right there.

 

[chcr]

Now that's funny right there.

Ahh doan care who yuh arr. Gitterdunnnn...

 

[Professur]

Did you ever see him before he became "Larry the cable guy"?
http://www.dead-frog.com/archives/2006/06/larry_the_cable_guy_dan_whitney_video.php

 

[Gonz]

Newt who?

 

[catocom]

So, some are against limited free speech......
Those of you are, what about this.....

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,230727,00.html

Ask yourself if you have a double standard.

 

[spike]

Are you suggesting Richards should face legal penalties?

 

[catocom]

nope there's no law against what he did.

I'm saying some of the same people that want total free speech, are actually
against it, like in cases such as that.

 

[spike]

I don't know why you would think that.

 

[Gonz]

Michael Richards is an idiot & a bigot. He has a right to be an idiot & a bigot at no monetary cost, save the public voting with their wallets.

 

[catocom]

I don't know why you would think that.

Ask Jessie jackson if he supports what Newt said, then ask him if he supports
if Richards should have been limited.

 

[chcr]

nope there's no law against what he did.

I'm saying some of the same people that want total free speech, are actually
against it, like in cases such as that.

I think that most people take the view that, "I should be free to say whatever I want to and you can be free to say anything you want to as long as I don't disagree with it too much." I personally think that you should be able to say whatever you want to. I also think that if you say something that offends or endangers others you'd have to be an idiot not to expect repercussions.

 

[spike]

Did Jesse suggest legal repurcessions for Richards? I don't know him so I can't ask him.