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January 8, 2008, 12:38 pm PST

01/08 Cyber Bullies

Quote From: kletus

My heart and prayers go out to you and all the children that have fallen prey to this nightmare. I watched the show this morning and am appaled that ANY living, breathing human being could sit there and talk about "people's freedom of speech" when the freedom is used in such a malicious, wreckless, irresponsible way as to make a CHILD commit suicide.This country is constantly reminding us as parents how much more advanced other countries are academically and have raised the standards to in my opinion to such a ridicilous standard that it's virtually impossible to have a "happy child". Then you get people that are twisted for whatever reason that use the technology we parents bring into our homes to help our children advance or excel academically and turn it into a lethal weapon. How can anyone honestly say "Freedom Of Speech" when a child's freedom has been totally ripped away by that very same freedom we claim we deserve? I ask the 1st. Ammendent official and anyone else with a child or children ,if this were your child , would you still feel as strongly as you do today to the Freedom Of Speech right. With all due respect I know from experience the the law that is supposed to apply to all does not---if you are in a "high" position,the system CAN and Does get changed so that the criminal is punished but when you are a common person then somehow the victim becomes the criminal. In this case I kept hearing how "parents" need to monitor and ..... How can UNO become porn----FREEDOM FROM PUNISHMENT. May God be with you and your family always and I will pray that your efforts are to no avail. I am so sorry for your loss.

While it's a tragedy that the speech did lead to a suicide, you just can't control speech that way. It IS a violation of freedom of speech to stop someone from saying ANYTHING, as offensive or horrible as it may be.

Her parents SHOULD have been looking at her MySpace account, asking her what she was doing online, finding out who she was talking to. She's a 13-year-old girl, and there are people everywhere who want to victimize and harass these people. Her parents need to be on the lookout for those people.

It's unfortunate that people WANT to say the things that Laurie Drew did, and it's distressing that it led to what it did, but you can't LEGALLY stop her from doing so. Because if you start to say what people can say to others, it gives you the option to control what people say. In this case, would a law be harmful? Of course not. But the issue is that you can't pass a law that says "Laurie Drew can't do this one thing." It has to apply to everyone, and there is no language that can be specific enough to make this law not be a violation of freedom of speech.

As an American, you have to be able to seperate immoral behavior from something you can legally prevent. You can't legislate morality. We've tried to do it in the past, and it ended horribly.

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