Letter to the Editor The Sun-Sentinel

October 16, 2010

Letter to the Editor
The Sun-Sentinel
200 E. Las Olas Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316

RE: Free speech

Sirs,

Bottom Line:
Allow protests, with limitations

This is the codicil you put after your editorial on the coming Supreme Court decision on how free free speech can or should be.

The details of the particular case, picketing the funerals of dead soldiers, are particularly loathsome. Rights, like prices, are always struck on the edges. That these rights are ours “from beyond the stars”, a la Natural Law, does not lessen the need for man to set limits to what he can do.

Logic would dictate that using your guidelines you will soon be publishing the Mohammed cartoons.

While it is true that not all Muslims are terrorists it is equally true that all the terrorists in the 21st century have been Muslims.

Perhaps prudence may dictate that before they are in your Sunday edition you may want to exhibit them in your lobby.

After all, as you say, “the principle of free speech must be defended”.





Kevin Smith