27th May 2004, 7:57 AM
Yes, but even ignoring little obvious things like that, let's go back to this example here. Yes, people DO have the right to interupt someone's speech. The law makes NO seperation and does not indicate any difference between a "speech" or a normal conversation. What a speech is is something we as a society decide, but the law honestly doesn't give jack about the difference between a speech and normal talking.
You can say whatever you want, but expect others to do the same thing. If you are on private property, or even in a government building and the boss or whatever there decides you are disrupting things, expect to be kicked out. They can't shut you up, or deport you, but they can remove you from the property. You have free speech but there are consequences. Oh, there are exceptions. You CAN be held in contempt for speaking out of turn in a court room, which could end in jail time. That's about the only place where free speech could be considered "stiffled", though even there once you get your TURN, you can say whatever you want within the context of that trial.
Yes, I'm ALSO talking about the people who booed here. They had the right to drown the guy out, but could have easily been kicked out because of doing that. Being kicked out is not saying "that's illegal". There are MANY rules that exist outside the law and are completely unsupported by the law in private places. Just because someone breaks one of those rules doesn't mean the law in ANY way supports that. If someone kicks someone out of a store or whatever for breaking one of those rules, and they call the police to get them off the property, the police will NOT care what rule was broken. All they care about is if the owner or someone given that same power as the owner decided that the one person is trespassing. The reasons are irrelevent. Just see examples where some guy says "but I didn't do such and such" and the police just don't care, all they care about is the guy is now trespassing, not the personal reasons the person who owns the place decided the person was trespassing. ONE exception, it can't be for race.
You can say whatever you want, but expect others to do the same thing. If you are on private property, or even in a government building and the boss or whatever there decides you are disrupting things, expect to be kicked out. They can't shut you up, or deport you, but they can remove you from the property. You have free speech but there are consequences. Oh, there are exceptions. You CAN be held in contempt for speaking out of turn in a court room, which could end in jail time. That's about the only place where free speech could be considered "stiffled", though even there once you get your TURN, you can say whatever you want within the context of that trial.
Yes, I'm ALSO talking about the people who booed here. They had the right to drown the guy out, but could have easily been kicked out because of doing that. Being kicked out is not saying "that's illegal". There are MANY rules that exist outside the law and are completely unsupported by the law in private places. Just because someone breaks one of those rules doesn't mean the law in ANY way supports that. If someone kicks someone out of a store or whatever for breaking one of those rules, and they call the police to get them off the property, the police will NOT care what rule was broken. All they care about is if the owner or someone given that same power as the owner decided that the one person is trespassing. The reasons are irrelevent. Just see examples where some guy says "but I didn't do such and such" and the police just don't care, all they care about is the guy is now trespassing, not the personal reasons the person who owns the place decided the person was trespassing. ONE exception, it can't be for race.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)