Regarding Jon Leirer's comments in Friday's Post chiding the crowds that gathered at the street preachers: Freedom of speech is a two-way street, and it was a two-way street that was vigorously used last week. I have to say, of the moments I was there, the entire time the street preachers were more insulting to the crowd than vice versa. Perhaps you saw an outlier event. Yet you have the audacity to lecture us and call our behavior in some way unacceptable.
I would be agreeing with you if the person in question was hosting a university-sponsored event in a lecture hall. Instead, they came on their own to spread their message of hate in a public area. Of course, they should be allowed to do this, and we are fortunate enough to live in a liberal society that does. However, we are well within our rights to challenge or mock them for their fundamentalist, short-sighted beliefs.
Daniel Norris is a senior information/telecommunication systems major.
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