It may have been meant as an evasive answer, but this quote from Hillary Clinton scares me…
When asked by cable channel NY1 if the independently produced ’1984′ campaign video placed up on YouTube should be taken down, Hillary Clinton responded:
You know, that’s for somebody else to decide. . . . I don’t have an opinion one way or another. I think anything that drives interest in these campaigns and gets people who otherwise are not at all interested in politics, I think that’s pretty good.
QUOTE SOURCE: ‘Watching Big Sister’ – The Washington Post’
How can someone running for President of the United States say that a freedom of speech issue like censoring political discourse on the web (or anywhere for that matter) is ‘for somebody else to decide’? Clinton may have simply been try to duck the question with a platitude, but to not have an ‘opinion’ on an issue this important seems wrong.
We are living in a time where many of our basic liberties are under fire, and the boundaries of the constitutional protections we enjoy are being narrowed and blurred. Whoever ends up becoming the next President of the United States needs to have a firm answer when it comes to doing anything that further erodes the foundation of our democratic society.
And that answer needs to be “No!”.
I’ll end this post as I began it, with a quote attributed to Voltaire:
“I may disagree with what you say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it”…