“We must silence those who oppose freedom of speech!”

Truth as an absolute defense (merde, of all the countries in the world, ONLY the US has that)
Right to bear arms (ridiculous, governments don’t get out of control)
Freedom of the press (scandalous, (in the rest of the world, only the “paper” press is usually free the electronic media is tightly controlled for the good of the state, but the country still claims freedom of the press)
Jury nullification (HOW can the commoners judge the law better than the agents of le goveurnment?)

Somehow they never admit those unique “stupidities” may be why we became the greatest nation in history (up to now).

One simply must appreciate how Posner manages to utterly cheapen the Bill of Rights:

“We have to remember that our First Amendment values are not universal; they emerged contingently from our own political history, a set of cobbled-together compromises among political and ideological factions responding to localized events.”

You see, free speech is not a natural right, but a a cobbled-together compromise, little different from, say, zoning laws or the federal budget (when we used to actually have a budget). If we cobble together a different political compromise, then, poof! — no more free speech. I do wonder, however, if Posner would call the right to abortion a cobbled-together compromise.

In City Journal, Michael Totten warns of allowing terrorists to veto free speech—something that law professor Eric Posner is surprisingly willing to allow happen…….