Dragonlady
Designing Woman
The right of free speech simply means you can't be arrested or imprisoned by the government for expressing your opinions or beliefs. It doesn't guarantee you there will be no consequences for doing so. You can be fired if your employer thinks your opinions don't reflect well on him/her. Phil has the right to say what he said, and A&E has the right to fire him for doing so.
It was very unwise of Robertson to express racial bigotry and homophobia in the media. It was even more unwise of him to treat gay crew members on his show badly. He wasn't hired to stoke controversy and now that he has, he will lose the forum to do so. Already, sponsors and retailers are dumping him. They too are exercising their rights.
You can exercise your right to free speech and you won't be arrested or imprisoned, but if you're going to insult, defame, and denigrate entire groups of people, you will find that free speech can be very costly.
It was very unwise of Robertson to express racial bigotry and homophobia in the media. It was even more unwise of him to treat gay crew members on his show badly. He wasn't hired to stoke controversy and now that he has, he will lose the forum to do so. Already, sponsors and retailers are dumping him. They too are exercising their rights.
You can exercise your right to free speech and you won't be arrested or imprisoned, but if you're going to insult, defame, and denigrate entire groups of people, you will find that free speech can be very costly.


Shit.....I gotta get up to speed. I'll tell ya though.....my 13 year old son is pretty dang good with his .17HMR. At 200 yards, he'll do a 5 group within a ring the size of your coffee cup mug top. Those .17 rounds are nastly little mofu's once they make contact with something. Even my wife is pretty dang good with her Circuit Judge chambering .410PDX rounds.......maybe only good for about 25 yards or so but with DA, its hard to miss something which will subsequently be royally fcukked up. My stuff just removes whole limbs with one round

