Don't read slate, problem solved.

Immigrants: Don't like the First Amendment, then stay the heck home and don't come here. "Americans": Don't like the First Amendment, move. It's our Constitution; it's our national religion, if you will. I frankly don't care what the world thinks, and Obama did NOT defend the First Amendment. He said that "...the future doesn’t belong to people who slander the Prophet Mohammed." Guess what, Barky. You're dead wrong. And it's my right to say so.

"Ain't that a shame." Get over it, that's what freedom is all about you bunch of ignorant uneducated savages.

Neither do a lot of so-called "Americans," as we're seeing and hearing more and more these days. If they mess with the First Amendment and cross the line, they're really going to hate the real-world application of the Second.

Typical -and dangerous- obfuscation regarding freedom of speech. This is particularly prevalent among academics in America who, along with journalists, are the biggest enemies of free speech in the country. This man, an attorney, happens to be affiliated with the University of Chicago Law School. There are more like him. They constitute a much bigger danger to American liberties than all of the world's Muslims together.

The world loves the USA.

Why else do they come here in droves?

Mexicans don't run to Russia, or France or Iran.

They come here for free speech, liberty and
the right to to start a business.

FTA:"But there is another possible response. This is that Americans need to learn that the rest of the world—and not just Muslims—see no sense in the First Amendment. Even other Western nations take a more circumspect position on freedom of expression than we do, realizing that often free speech must yield to other values and the need for order."
This is amazing, he slams the First Amendment which gives him the right to do so! This is further proof that liberalism is a mental disease.

Ah yes, Chicago continues to be a hot bed of communist love. The Demonrat party and the Leftists who populate it are all about control of others. They are forever trying to create opportunities to shut down free speech. Of course it never applies to them since they are so enlightened.

Vote out all Demonrats if you want to hang onto remaining freedoms.

United Nations human rights instruments provide almost the same level of free speech protection as does the American Constitution. The most obvious difference is that Americans take their First Amendment rights seriously whereas leftists around the world ignore UN human rights instruments because these instruments undermine the collectivist approach so favoured by the left.

This is only one of many attacks of the liberals against freedom. I recall Thomas Freedman looking lovingly at the authoritarian Chinese government and several Democratic Party elected officials talking about how there is too much "democracy" in America.

These are signs of a political movement that has lost the intellectual argument for their beliefs. They have slid into the lazy intellectual habit of wishfully thinking that if only they could compel everyone to get on their program, they would succeed. Suddenly, dissent has become unpatriotic.

This new love for restricting speech on Islam is actually a sign of the cowardice of liberals. They have had no problems insulting Christians for many years with shameful lies but now, they will not allow anyone else to tell the embarrrassing truth (as verifiable from Islamic scriptures themselves) about their new found BFF, Islamofascism, including the *true* biographical information of its founder.

based on what our 'current' President said at the UN...he is not a big fan of 'free speach' either...right?

The ''world'' according to Slate can bite my big broad beam! Let them nitpick each other to death, but don't tread on me. I'd like to see a rusty spike driven through the heart of Political correctness. If Slate is the face of that, then so much the better.

Good point, #6. If Islam is so darn good, why don't folks flock to those Third World and Sixth Century places??

Yo, Eric! We didn't ask them when we adopted the First Amendment, or any of the rest of it. So their opinions still don't matter. Got it?

#10: Read the whole thing. Some of the last words in the "UN Declaration of Universal Human Rights" say "anything above" [all the rights "granting" language] "that conflicts with the goals of the UN is void." No, I didn't bother to go pull out the exact words. I know what they said, and it's a totalitarian crock.

#13: "Flock back"? Nuts, send 'em back.

The rest of the world be damned.
E pluribus unum. Ever heard of that, Posner, you anti-American snake?