[Flashpoint]

When the right to verbally offend is not allowed, when politicians give lawyers, bureaucrats, prosecutors, and human rights tribunals and others the right to pronounce on what constitutes acceptable speech, they've made a judgment call from the present against both the past and the future.

After thousands of years of prophets, politicians, and thinkers as diverse as Plato, Confucius, Karl Marx and Christ, human beings have starkly different views on every conceivable subject, plenty of which are controversial. We all have limited lifespans and limited understandings. The last thing any citizen should do is to give one or several minor minds the inflated notion that they, a mere speck in the history of the planet, have the right to criminally judge others on matters of thought and speech, especially given the reality that such issues are intellectually, philosophically, religiously and culturally charged.

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