Reply #167: The only exceptions to free speech are those interpretable under British common law. [View All]

[Leopolds Ghost]

Which was the system of law created by Anglo-Saxon commoners beginning 1500 years ago.

That is the only standard you have to use: the one set down by 1500 years of jurisprudence by the common people and their elected or appointed district judges.

You don't get to make up stuff as you go along about what constitutes an exception to free speech, unless you are Pol Pot and want to inaugurate the year Zero.

Anyone less radical than Pol Pot either believes in retaining basic notions of human rights that were passed down to us thru the centuries and were the foundation for Jefferson's thinking,

Or they believe in the revolutionary (or if you prefer, reactionary) goals of Modernism, which in their end are about the total sovereignty of an all-powerful State. That way lies the Panopticon.