Freedom of speech belongs to the loud and aggressive.
Freedom of speech is their cacophony of voices shouting all at once.
Freedom of speech is their smothering words that silences all other.
Freedom of speech is the preserve of the crowd that excludes all but them.
Freedom of speech is not our freedom extended to the foreign other.
Freedom of speech is not our freedom to accommodate a new point of view.
Freedom of speech belongs to the true listening of the quiet and thoughtful, the ones crushed underfoot.
Andrew James Whalan 