On July 4th the President of the United States said he believed in free speech in America?

Question

yet the police took people away who were speaking there mind. Why?

Answer 1

Free speach does not mean free access to a podium.  The people taken away by police were causing a disruption or simply disturbing the peace.  This is not a matter of free speach.

Answer 2

Because it wasn't his version of free speech.

Peace

Jim

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Answer 3

So the President woundn't get interupted. HA HA

Answer 4

George W Bush has a strange sense of humer.  Was he laughing and giggleing when he said it?  Did he wink?

thanks

Answer 5

That wasn't the place for that.  The people that were protesting, though they were within their rights, were disrupting the gathering.  It's similar to that group of Kansas church protesters who go to funerals of soldiers.  That group has the right to protest if they feel they need to, but they do NOT have the right to infringe on others rights to do it.

Answer 6

What people fail to realize about free speech is that when your exercising of free speech impinges on someone else's right of free speech or to participate in an event, you then have committed a crime. You have the RIGHT to say whatever idiocy you want, but no one has a RIGHT to be forced to hear it. It does not place you above the law.

Answer 7

Disturbing the peace. I'm surprised usually dissenters don't get anywhere near the president and his free speech zones.

Answer 8

I watched the speech live and they heckled him for a good majority of the time, far as I know no one was taken by police. Are you making that up?

Answer 9

EVERYONE has a right to "free Speech".

BUT..When you try to interrupt another who is ALSO exercising that right, that is where the problem lies.  If the President is giving a speech, NO ONE has a right to interrupt him.

I'll go a step further, If I am giving a speech and someone interrupted me, and protested, they wold be in the wrong, since they are infringing upon my time and my rights, not to mention the rights of those who came to hear me speak.