What the fuck is this? 1984? The United States government and their masked gaggle of goons are going to have to pry my First Amendment Right to Freedom of Speech from my cold, dead hand before I’d ever preemptively surrender it. I’ve already been threatened, tortured, beaten, and silenced by Big Daddy. Back in the 80s. Ain't nothing new to me. And while this terrible thought might petrify everyone else, or those who've never been there before, it only serves to burn me deeper to my 8th grade core. Freedom of Speech is not a privilege dispensed by the so-called powerful; it's a birthright recognized by the wise and sane. It allows the informed to speak truth to the ignorant, the outcast to name their pain, and the dissenter to spark revolutions with little more than a whisper . This is what makes America great. Punto. Make no mistake. The moment we start to give this (both Constitutional and human) right away — out of a careless fear of weak men — we, ourselves, slam the ...