Friday, January 29, 2010

Silent Free Speech

I had an interesting experience this weekend. (Actually, I had a lot of them, but I’m only going to mention one.) Some friends and I were out collecting signatures on a petition. We went outside a library, public property. I had called to get permission the day before and they told me not to block access to the library and to only have two petitioners at once. So when some staff came out and told me that we could only stay if we did not “initiate contact” with the patrons, I thought it an interesting definition of Free Speech.

Free Speech is silence until spoken to.

Just thought you should know.

To God be all glory.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Petitioner number one: "So what is it we're not initiating contact about?"

"Well, you see, what we're not supposed to be asking people about is signing our petition regarding..."

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