I disagree. I think he shouldn’t burn the Koran on 9/11, because I believe it is a disrespectful, cheap trick that cheapens the remembrance of that day.
I say to him: Burn the book on Sunday at your church service; don’t appropriate a solemn day like 9/11 for your pet cause; we all want to remember 9/11 in our own way.
So I guess I could care less who burns a Koran when, I think it’s stupid for a General to COMPLAIN about a legal act of liberty taken by a citizen he is tasked to defend, it’s rediculous for the media to cover this like the guy is about to murder someone, and the guy has no business trying to co-opt 9/11 for his own purposes.
Agreed. (my last post was before I read this)
Your response is EXACTLY why the Freedom of Speech is appropriate to the INDIVIDUAL and not the collective.
Clearly this other person disagrees and should act as HE sees fit and reap the consequences. You should not - nor should I or 0bama or Petraeus - have the ability to shut down this INDIVIDUAL’s right to Free Speech because none of us can predict the future and we, as a collective, have no business trying to take away this person’s INDIVIDUAL protected rights.
You do not have a “right” if other people can take it away with peer pressure.