Does this still apply today when the Iranians denying the Holocaust and the Americans denying their genocide of the Native Americans?
Has freedom of speech; where you can publicly lie through your teeth and still receive and audience disappeared for good.
2006-10-17 23:15:23 · 10 answers · asked by speedball182 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Is taking someone’s right to communicate with thee outside world when they are imprisoned an attack against free speech?
Is denouncing the existence of a truthful religious text, base on the fact that most religious text were written down a few hundred years after the event, and having some bile basher treating to kill you or having a fatwa issued on you reducing your rights?
Like when Jack Straw asked that women if she would remove her veil. Everyone say it was wrong to say, but all he was doing was ask and air his uncomfortable feelings. The views of the people who were outraged could force another person not to air their views through fear of the backlash.
2006-10-17 23:56:15 · update #1
Isn't that what goes on here? Instead of facts, evidence and proof we hear nothing but slogans and propaganda, racial slurs and insults. Try to say something and the fanatics come out of their latrines in hoards to shout you down with insults and accusations remeniscent of McCarthyism. Too many people do not even realize that Freedom of Speech and Expression is under threat today along with our other Constitutional rights, freedoms and liberties that separate us from other nations and make this country so great; the same rights, liberties and freedoms that so many Americans before us fought and sacrificed for, shed their blood and died for... (illegal seaches, wire tapping by the government without court orders... people held illegally for long periods of time without benefit of legal counsel or legal charges... etc).
Who is the real "patriot", the one who denies the truth or the one who brings forth the faults that exist in order to correct the existing wrongs?
2006-10-17 23:42:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
What? This is freedom of speech. The theory behind it is that good ideas will drive out bad. If I use my free speech to deny genocide of native Americans and you use yours to demonstrate I am wrong, that is how it is supposed to work. "a marketplace of ideas".
While I am not sure exactly the point you want to make with the juxtaposition of the quote and the examples, I would like to point out a major difference between them. In the US and a great extent Europe, there is no "official" voice giving an "official" view, and anyone can freely state his view (as you do here). In Iran when the government denies the Holocaust, not only is the official voice unopposed and so more persuasive than an opposed one, but if you tried airing a contrary opinion you would "defend it to your death"
2006-10-17 23:31:29 · answer #2 · answered by sofarsogood 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure, just as it did when the Iroquois nation drove out the Shawnee and the Delaware, and the Lakota Sioux and the Blackfeet, drove the Comanches and Kiowas south and tried to kill all the Crow tribes. Who by the way sided with the American soldiers to kill off the Sioux. Name one country in the WORLD that hasn't drove someone off the land to take it for themselves. Who is denying that the Americans drove off and killed the Native Americans? I'm not. The only place I have freedom of speech taken away is on college campus's that will only let people speak whom they agree with
2006-10-17 23:41:37 · answer #3 · answered by mark g 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For me this principle, stated so masterly by the great Voltaire, is still valid. The fact that some people - even though they might be numerous and powerful - abuse the principle of free speech does make free speech a bad thing.
In comparison, the fact that many people eat bad and unhealthy food does not make eating as such obsolete.
2006-10-17 23:29:14 · answer #4 · answered by Sean F 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two issues
1. History is written by winners and the wealthy.#
2. One country that's never driven a native people off their land is Ireland. Many times invaded never the invader.
2006-10-18 01:56:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
free speech, a wonderful human instrument, nevers angers you, but offends the masses. Used wisely it is a wonderful thing, brings people of like minds together, used unwisley or in the wrong circumstances, bring chaos and war. Who is to judge the whens and wherefores of such actions ? Basically keep yourself to yourself, UNLESS you on the masses side, then your sure to win. Once in, change your mind. HELLO mr politician !!!!
2006-10-18 21:10:12 · answer #6 · answered by david g 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-23 17:19:50 · answer #7 · answered by glasow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The point about free speech is that it is not up to a government to say what the truth is.
It is up to the citizens to work out what is true or false.
2006-10-17 23:40:34 · answer #8 · answered by karlrogers2001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well except the fact that Iranians did not participate in such genocide.
2006-10-17 23:18:38 · answer #9 · answered by Pishisauraus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ah the first time i have ever heard a Voltaire quote since i been out of high school (18 years ago).
2006-10-17 23:21:06 · answer #10 · answered by dumbdumb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋