Parallels to be Drawn...

I hadn't really thought about it until my friend, Cajun Tiger, commented, but there are parallels to be considered between my two posts from yesterday. Both Howard Stern and the activists from the Free Enterprise Fund have had the heavy-hand of government raised before them because of what they have said in the media.

And I guess my point is that we can't pick and choose whose speech we're going to protect - everybody doesn't like something that someone else says, and if you attack someone else for their speech there's nothing to stop someone else from attacking your's - witness the movement by the progressives to attack conservative speech on college campuses.

Of course, it's even more insidious when that heavy hand is thrust by the government official whose actions are being criticized against those who are criticizing him. There is little more sacred in our American system than the right of citizens to produce and distribute at their own expense critiques of people or organs of our government.

- Andrew Langer