[Ditto]

So how long did she spend in jail for making her comments? What? She didn't go to jail? Did the government shut down her business? Harass her children? Through them out of school? Audit her taxes? Did they do any of that to Mailer, Chompsky, or her other poor, persecuted friends? No?

I'm confused. How is it she is losing her 1st amendment freedom of speech? It seems she is saying exactly what she thinks and other citizens are telling her exactly what they think. Sounds like the Bill of Rights is working just fine to me. But being a leftist elite, she probably thinks the 1st only applies to her, not to those dirty "little people" who wrote her those letters.

[stop_fascism]

Let me try to explain:

To these people it is not enough to let them freely state their views. One must embrace those views, kiss the feet of the writers and celebrate them as the greatest polical thinkers since John Locke...

And most of all, no one should ever dream that those who disagree with them have the right to criticize their drivel.

[Texas Jack]

"... Little did I know that I was about to experience exactly how fearfully limited public debate in America really is."

You've got it exactly right Ditto. She was allowed to voice her opinion without fear of any kind of reprisal. What she is complaining about is that there actually is debate. No longer do leftist have the pleasure of spewing their invective without being challenged.

What she is really complaining about is our right to free speech. She would rather we sit and listen, because she is so much smarter than the rest of us.