I Dream Awake

…the right of freedom of speech is only relevant if the speech in question offends. Nobody cares about uncontroversial speech, so it needs no right to defend it. Therefore, any censorship or threat to censor in response to violence or complaints from foreign religious leaders — who are demanding, in effect, that their speech prevail over the putatively offensive speech — eviscerates the freedom of speech in its entirety, not partially as the appeasers would protest.

Cataloging the violence veto by Tigerhawk

Via: Glenn Reynolds