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... some is more free than others.

"This was not an issue about free speech," Tim Moore, director of the SMU student center, said in a story for Thursday's edition of The Dallas Morning News. "It was really an issue where we had a hostile environment being created."*

I love that quote. It so neatly side steps the "censorship" label and makes it all about being "kinder and gentler". Look, it cries, I'm good, I'm for free speech, only this, well, this can't be free speech because it was creating a hostile environment. I feel like I've stepped right into a parallel ending of "Animal Farm" -- "All speech is free but some is more free than others."

( More thoughtful ranting inside )

Freedom of Speech should be an ideal -- a right that comes with responsibilities and obligations. It should not be a weapon used to force your opinion others nor should it be a cry to "prove" your own superiority. For "Freedom of Speech" to survive, no one should ever be allowed co-opt that ideal and claim it as part of their -- and only their -- ideology. Because the very idea of that -- the very thought that only one side, group or person is the sole protector and champion of Freedom of Speech -- undermines the very right that they claim to cherish.