Show LETTING OIT OFF ST EAM every human hitman being has a right light to say what he thinks and so long ion as in savins it he does not directly incite others to crime or offend public decency nobody has a right to stop him from speaking his mind that is the sum and substance of our constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech there is hardev a person living who does not at times yearn yeam for the opportunity port unity to let off steam by expressions his opinion of the way the world is run ran and of some of the people who have a hand in running it A rood good many majia people are fanatics on the subject of speaking their mind they love to attract attention to themselves and to abuse those hose in authority when officials try to suppress them these vociferous ones are happy it proves droves that the world is all wrong they immediately immediate lv become in their own minds and the minds of others like them martyrs to the cause of free speech there is only one intelligent way to handle such people that is to let them talk preserve order in the crowd that is listening w to them and pay no attention to what they say and that is the way in which the communist demonstrations early in march were handled in most american cities in america and elsewhere in the world that suit the communists there is no glory in being allowed to talk what they want is to be prevented from talking that rives hem a dizh degree of satisfaction and gives color to their claim that free speech is not allowed in this country so when they found in new york chicago and elsewhere that they were not going to be interfered with they chev began to throw things at the police in i n the effort to provoke retaliation to which they could point as evidence of oppression talking hurts nobody unless the effort is made to suppress it like dynamite these avita agitators tors axe are dangerous only when co confined give them a chance to let off steam by talking their heads off if they want to and the rest of the world will go about its business without bothering with them try to squelch them and a good many honest but stupid people will begin to wonder whether after all there something in their claims that hey are being persecuted and ana that is the alie impression they are trying to convey |