Give an idiot a pen…
And you get this shit. (Don Wright)
This is the ultimate endgame of what Jeff has been going on about for some time.
Who controls meaning? Is meaning guided by the intent of the speaker? If it is, then the speaker cannot be responsible for the way his meaning is misinterpreted (intentionally or otherwise). Is meaning controlled by the listener? If so, when does liability attach to the listener and not the speaker?
Can anyone point me to a single sentence that Limbaugh, Beck, Norris, or Bachmann has said or written that even implies that it’s ok to shoot cops?
Whatever happened to the reasonable man standard? Are we now supposed to limit what we say, what we think, what we draw, based upon how some unbalanced person might interpret it? Should we outlaw dogs because there might be another Son of Sam? Ought we ban video games because an unbalanced child might decide to kill people at some later date?
Don, your argument is as stupid as it is dangerous. Your abject hatred for conservatives has caused you to draw some pretty foolish stuff before, and no doubt it will again. But for you to imply that someone talking on the radio is responsible for how a deranged person interprets what is said is inherently dangerous to liberty.