Freedom of speach is one of our most charished rights and yet, when missused without consideration of its consequences that might effect the lives of other innocent people, it can be a curse.
It looked like another frustrated American, fed up with the outrageous extremists, foolishly used his freedom of speech to make a movie against the leader of the Muslems. This led to an uprising in which 50 innocent people were killed. Further investigation reveals that the movie maker was much less than an upstanding citizen. However, freedom in a demcracy is freedom for all, and abuses like this simply have to be chalked up to the high cost of freedom.
Our only defense against such abuse is education; education not only from the schools but from the Churches, and from the homes and from each other.
In a democracy we have the responsibility to be our brother's keeper; to understand that our freedom ends where the other persons freedom begins.
We must learn to respect each other and when we disagree we must do so without being disagreeable,
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