Freedom of Speech

A few random quotes explaining "Freedom of Speech", something that the facists running the tory rags and those people you find on any virtually any internet forum you visit, like to forget when accusing anyone with a view alternative to their's and not conforming to their hidden agenda of not being PC.

1) "If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don't like. Goebbels was in favour of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're in favour of freedom of speech, that means you're in favour of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise."

2) "If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."

3) "Freedom of speech is being able to speak freely without censorship. The right to freedom of speech is guaranteed under international law through numerous human-rights instruments, notably under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, although implementation remains lacking in many countries. The synonymous term freedom of expression is sometimes preferred, since the right is not confined to verbal speech but is understood to protect any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used."

4) Some commentators have argued that the term "political correctness" is a straw man (A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position) invented by conservatives in the 1990s in order to challenge progressive social change.
The term was later adopted by the radical left in the 1960s, initially seriously and later ironically, as a self-criticism of dogmatic (the term dogmatic, used to describe a person of rigid beliefs who is not open to rational argument) attitudes.