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Originally Posted by Socratoad
I guess that I do not see pieing someone like Coulter as a prevention of her rights to 'free speech as I see it as an incident that tends to diminish the hateful impact of her words by the introduction of a little levity into the scene.
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The problem is when you defend the right of people to assault Ann Coulter during her speeches, you in turn support the right of right-wing fanatics to assault the people you'd prefer to hear speaking. If people start throwing pies at speakers willy-nilly, how long will it take before they're throwing other things. And how long after that before public speeches just stop happening?