These People were acting like a certain European County in the 1930's by tossing out their CD's....
Free Speech is Free Speech Regardless of whether you agree with the position of the Speaker...
So why were the Conservatives so ready to yank Natalie Maines Rights Away?
I don't care if she said this in China she had the right to an opinion.....
2006-10-12 01:26:56 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Everyone isnt. Just the glassey-eyed rednecks who claim to be patriotic but then criticize people exercising their free speech rights. You shoot a kid in a schoolhouse and the NRA and rednecks run to defend the right to own firearms. You criticize what you believe to be a bad government and you are pulled down by rednecks. Go figure.
2006-10-12 01:30:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Another example of why liberals are not to be trusted with this country - they don't even understand what Free Speech Rights mean, and their selective application of rights.
When the Dixie Twits opened their ignorant yaps, the government did NOTHING to them. Their Free Speech rights are intact. Congress passed no law prohibiting their speech; law enforcement took no actions after they spoke. That's what Free Speech means.
Your idiotic comparison of people freely choosing to stop supporting the Dixie Twits to the government sponsored book-burning of the Nazis is, again, ignorant. Why do liberals peddle such ignorant twaddle all the time? Only other ignorant liberals give such tripe any credence whatsoever.
You see, when you express an opinion, other people are free to criticize your opinion, and are free to show their opposition.
Perhaps in the depths of your ignorance, you could explain your ridiculous statement that anybody was stripping her rights away? This would require facts and evidence and logic - things anathematic to the liberal mind.
And people wonder why we consider liberals to be idiots.
2006-10-12 01:48:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-16 02:46:39 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As Americans, we are entitled to free speech AND the repercussions that come with that free speech. If someone in the public eye decides to take a stand on an issue, they should be prepared for the backlash that may occur. Americans are also entitled to throw away their belongings. I see no issue with what happened.
Who is trying to take away her rights?
2006-10-12 01:31:07 · answer #4 · answered by dougneb 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Are you Democrats that nervous about the November elections that you're grasping at straws in trying to make conservatives out to be hypocrites?
Please. Good thing Clinton never went to a Dixie Chicks concert, he'd have his pants off by the time he got to his seat.
The Dixie Chicks keep bringing this up in their hopes to boost sales but they're done, they've gone the way of STYX and LOVERBOY, but without leaving us any classics.
In a few years people will be saying "Remember the Dixie Chicks?"
To Which people will respond "Yeah, they sucked"
2006-10-12 01:29:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
To quote the greatness of one Larry the cable Guy
"That little fat one needs to shut up!!"
The whole point was that she spouted off at a time when the country needed to support the government, if she were to have done it now, no one would care. She said that to a crowd in France and we were not too happy with them then. She just ran her mouth, noone took her rights away, but she shoulda done her homework. Besides they are supposed to be "country/western artists. Who do you think the country fans are?...you guessed it card carrying coservatives!!
2006-10-12 01:35:21 · answer #6 · answered by rswdew 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Free speech does not exempt you from public reaction. You have the freedom to bash BUSH which is OK.
I have the freedom to never buy your music again & email any company that deals with you.
2006-10-12 01:36:48 · answer #7 · answered by Conservative Texan 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The essence of free speech is for the people to speak what they want and mean without government curtailment.
2006-10-12 01:30:26 · answer #8 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The neocons like free speech. As long as what is said pleases them or Chump boy. It is like ... "Selective Free Speech". Which is kinda as bad as selective hearing or selective memory.
I have overheard some neocons the other day saying they wanted to change the 1st from "the right of free speech" to "the free right speech".
Just wait what's coming...
2006-10-12 01:33:43 · answer #9 · answered by The answer man 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The real uproar wasn't because of WHAT they said, but WHERE they said it. It's one thing to trash your government at home, but this practice is widely seen as being extremely unpatriotic when done in front of foreigners. It's just bad form.
2006-10-12 01:39:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋