Freedom of Speech Manipulated
I believe in the freedom of speech and I’m sure you do as well. If there is a foundation stone to the edifice that is America, I guess it is freedom of speech and of the press.
But I’m having problems. Problems of definition and wonder if we haven’t allowed freedom of speech to be hijacked by every special interest that comes down the pike. We are a nation of lawyers and lawyers have done us well and done us not-so-well, construing and mis-construing, applying and mis-applying the avalanche of law that spills out of our state and national legislatures.
An example; is the freedom to spend money the same as free speech? Political Action Committees (PACs) will tell you so and yet I’m damned if I believe in a freedom that takes away my other (and more precious) freedoms.
One definition of a political action committee is a ‘political group that is not formally related to a particular political party, but is associated with other groups.’ Fair enough. But unfair enough, PACs are allowed to…