Free speech, including elimination of political correctness, is indeed the cornerstone of our freedoms. In addition, being able to vote without anyone finding out HOW you voted is equally important.

It is important that free speech is allowed to ensure freedom and it is probably the least important right to have. If you have the right to complain while you are being hanged for complaining the right to speech doesn't mean much. It is the right to act that is the most important right and displays freedom. The congress passed a 'law' that compels everyone to spend their property (money) on healthcare that they cannot choose. With free speech the populace has been able to point out that the law is unconstitutional, impractical, unaffordable, the claim that they could choose their own doctors was a lie and many more problems with the act. Complaining about it, threatening to vote someone out of office, putting in a new president who promised on the campaign trail he would get rid of it (then admitted on 60 minutes that he wouldn't get rid of it and liked many parts of it) means the populace is still subjugated to the violence that will be used to enforce it. Having the right to free speech has meant nothing as far as changing any of the movement of collectivism.
Begging for permission from those who are the slavers to allow the slaves to be free means nothing to the masters or the slaves because nothing changes. The slave masters will allow free speech for it identifies those with whom they have a problem with ruling and allows them to modify the propaganda to keep the slaves convinced that being a slave is a wonderful thing because their security is provided for and the promise that someone else will be plundered to provide for their wants.

That was an excellent presentation!

Free Speech 'is' the bedrock of a free society.

Postmodernist must be turning over in their future graves...Good I say. One does not know they are f**ked up until someone tells them so.

Thank you, Freedom.

That was quite a speech. Very passionate and complex, using a lot of big words.

In summary, and simplified, those who deny free speech are responsible for a lot more death and destruction than those who respect free speech. So be ever on guard, else hell on earth is possible.

I wrote a letter to Hillsdale College suggesting they offer an on-line course on the role of the press in a free society starting with pamphleteers and the Federalist Papers (as originally published in contemporary news papers) to the present times with outspoken bloggers and the consolidation of mainstream media under control of a few powerful moguls. (so far, no response)