Boston Journalist Uses Civility Argument Trying To Silence Political Expression

Fitzgerald continues his campaign to censor Donald Trump using the civility argument. Harvard University officials use it to silence criticism of the university. Criticism you see is uncivil. He suggests that Trump speaks using words and phrases not fitting for a candidate for president. Has he heard the language used by the sitting president, the Vice President? They call critics stupid and terrorists. Congressmen utter the most frightening inanities of the elected criminal class (Noam Chomsky's phrase). They all owe me an apology for offending my sense of decorum for public speech. Funny how Fitzgerald does not mention the US Constitution. The First Amendment is specifically concerned with political speech. It does not mention civility which is the priority of Fitzgerald and the Harvard elitists. The purpose of the notion of free speech and the First Amendment is to protect speech that you hate. Fitzgerald opposes the First Amendment. He's a member of the but brigade. "I support the First Amendment but . . . " If what Fitzgerald believes is true why not let the people decide what they want to hear and who they want to be president. Don't you trust the voters and taxpayers Mr. Fitzgerald?

[From article]
this garrulous renegade whose speaking style is quite the opposite of predictable
[. . .]
By financing his own campaign, Trump is no one’s economic hostage, giving him freedom to say whatever he feels like saying.
But with it comes another freedom, a freedom to disregard decorum as if no one’s going to tell him what he can and cannot say.
So he tells us his opponents are stupid, are losers, which is what you might expect to hear in a schoolyard squabble, not in a race to become America’s next chief executive.
[. . .]
An old political axiom warns you can’t throw mud without getting dirty, and Trump has been slinging a lot of it lately.
Even Scripture calls the tongue “an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”
So here’s some free advice to this loquacious billionaire.
Want to be the victor? Then it’s time to put a muzzle on the viper.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/joe_fitzgerald/2015/08/fitzgerald_mudslinging_may_get_donald_trump_dirty

Fitzgerald: Mudslinging may get Donald Trump dirty
Monday, August 17, 2015
By: Joe Fitzgerald
Boston Herald