TO THE EDITOR:
While the headline of Tuesday’s front page article, “Expression Uncensored,” promised an excellent declaration of support for our First Amendment rights, the article proved disappointingly critical of the most important and basic of them all: the freedom of speech.
Nestled among four examples of the free exercise of these rights, the paragraph on freedom of speech instead suggested that free speech ought only to be allowed so long as it conformed to certain political views. This is a shocking affront to the exercise of free speech. One would hope that on First Amendment Day of all days, we could set aside our political stances for a brief moment and recognize that all speech should be free, whether we agree with it or not.
Billy Kluttz certainly has the right to express an opinion, and the DTH has the right to publish it. Surely, though, instead of questioning the freedom of others’ speech by suggesting new limitations, it would have been preferable to mention acts of free speech which occur every day, on campus and off.
Flyers have appeared on campus advocating the occupation of Wall Street, for example, and one doesn’t have to remain in the Pit very long to see or hear someone publicly expressing an opinion. It is disappointing that all of the fruits of the First Amendment should be ignored and be tainted by suggestions of censorship.
David Adler
Freshman
Undeclared
