Chubby Nickel Audio Vlog

When I was watching the news one day, I saw what was happening to Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, I heard the funniest… and saddest thing about free speech I ever heard. Some stupid pundit said that she was practicing her freedom of speech and was getting attacked for it.

This is stupid for a few reasons: she was not being attacked for practicing free speech and other people also get to practice free speech. She was being attacked for her views on gay marriage, not because she was practicing her right to say it. Free speech is (as I plagiarize Thunderf00t from youtube.com) “free speech is a no-holds-barred arena.” Which means if you are going to say something in this arena, you should expect other people to also say something about what you said. Now if she has the right to publicly express her views, then other people have the right to publicly counter those views. There is no way to maintain freedom of speech while “protecting” people from being humiliated because they expressed their views.

The only way for someone to keep their right to free speech is to allow people that have other views to express themselves. There is no other way. Freedom of speech is not just a cliche term, its something that no one should take for granted. Yes, people will say something that you disagree with, someone will call you names, some one will attack your beliefs, someone will attack what you said. If you cannot see the importance of free speech then consider this on selfish terms: If you want to regulate what someone else can say, you are destroying your own right to say what you want to say.

So enjoy people that disagree with you, enjoy people calling you names, enjoy defending yourself, enjoy learning and most of all: enjoy freedom of speech.