Freedom of Speech, as any other right, entails some exceptions. Defamation is one. Obscenity is another. And 'Fifhting words' also another. Freedom of Speech may also be considerably altered in certain circumstances...

Just try the following easy test and come report back the result: sneek quietly in the audience room during a Supreme Court hearing, wait for a quiet moment, maybe between two pleadings (stay polite), stand up and express yourself just loud enough to be heard (don't yell, remain polite): "You judges are doing damn nothing, just seating there with your blah-blah-blah, collecting huge salaries, having been appointed there by crooked politicians, and do not have any consideration for us retail shareholders...oops...simple citizens...!"

When the guards will force you out of the room, deliver to them the magical words: " We live in a free country where people have a right to express outrageous and ridiculous opinions as moderate ones ". Just come back and tell us what the magical words had made to your case...

You get the point? Freedom of expression does not overrule the right of others to live in peace. Especially within a freely created community of people whose members did expressly aggree (remember the the 'I accept' button?) to behave and to be governed by a set of reasonable rules.

The problem, though, is as old as the world and will die with it: objective interpretation of the rules of Justice by subjective human beings.

"It is fearful to think that judgment within us is not justice. Judgment is the relative, justice is the absolute. Think of the difference between a judge and a just man" Victor Hugo.

GLTA.

BaBe.