It is his right to free speech and maybe a lot of people would learn something..it might open their eyes and get them to deal with the realities of death and dying and at the same time deal with the spiritual and moral and ethical dillemas we all face as technology goes further.
It should be an open discussion. Young people are sandbagged when they have no one to discuss things with when they hear someone like him.
There IS NO blanket "right" to free speech, there is a right against the government infringing your free speech. And this is about him being paid a lot of money to tell people the "joys" of killing people.
NOBODY needs to hear this message of death.
Out of Kevorkian’s more than 130 victims, a minority had terminal illnesses; most were people with disabilities who were not terminally ill. According to a review of Kevorkian’s victims by the Detroit Free Press in 1997, 60% did not have terminal conditions.
This is not a question of censorship. It is a question of sponsorship.
It would be a pretty fair show if they would take that $50,000 and split it five ways: $10,000 apiece for Kevorkian and Michael Schiavo on the pro-killing side; #10,000 apiece for Bobby Schindler and Fr. Frank Pavone on the anti-killing side; and the fifth portion to go to the moderator of the discussion, selected, shall we say, by the University of Florida Students with Disabilities Association.
That's sounds educational: a real discussion-starter. But $50,000 for the convicted murderer Kevorkian? No way. I'm signing that petition.
I’m looking in the Constitution, and I’m not finding any reference to taxpayer funded speaking fees in the First Amendment. Can you point that out to me?
It should be an open discussion. Young people are sandbagged when they have no one to discuss things with when they hear someone like him.”
Nav_mom responds: It is the fact that death loving liberals (except in the cases of trees and frogs) ONLY give students exposure to ONE side of this equation that is so outrageous! Perhaps if the Schiavo family or another speaker who was opposed to “death on demand” were given the same time, $$$ and stage to voice the other side it would not seem so sinister!