We shouldn’t be discussing the price of free speech.
We should be discussing the cost of censorship.
And we should be discussing the cost of a government making its citizens live in fear of expressing themselves.
That’s exactly right.
I think Sheriff Clarence Dupnik is a nasty old bastard who’s lost his objectivity and probably should retire. That’s my opinion and I have a right to express it, just as he has the right to say what he did.
Sometimes free speech is inconvenient, embarassing, or even hurtful. But censorship is always crippling to a free society.