THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH VERSUS PROMOTION OF HATRED IS AT QUESTION............

Americans value and promote freedom and liberty for all citizens and peoples around the World.  Freedom of Speech is so highly viewed as to be the first freedom enumerated in the Bill of Right and First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.  Yet in recent times the privilege to say and speak freely has been applied by some of our citizens in such a cavalier and insensitive manner so as to incite violence and promote hate.  The incidents of violence and attacks on American, British, and German, Embassies and Consulates inflicted by Muslim extremists for which they bear supreme responsibility, have been fueled by the self-serving actions of irresponsible persons like Coptic Christian film maker, Basseley Nakoula; and Evangelical Christian Minister, Pastor Terry Jones, are liable for encouraging, if not causing much of the international protests and violent reactions to the film, "Innocence Of Muslims", they produced and funded.  To intentionally stir tensions that venomously advocate anti-religious sentiment and intolerance and foments hatred, is unAmerican, unChristian, and morally, ethically, deficient.  I do not belief it was the intention of our nation's Founders or the Constitution they framed and enacted, to show support  for derisive words and actions that allow the right to freedom of speech to be abused and manipulated for hateful means; but rather as a free, civil, constructive, exchange of ideas and attitudes.  What citizens and persons like Basseley, and Jones, are doing by advancing propaganda such as this film is neither civil, or constructive, but destructive, and an abuse, of the freedom we cherish and espouse.  Furthermore, Jones has been charged with child pornography and Basseley convicted of credit card fraud.  Their capability to commit such criminal acts, indicates the cavalier, self serving, insensitivity with which they could promote and produce such a callous, divisive, riotous, violently murderous, propaganda film.  Four American patriots in Libya and at least five other persons internationally, have been killed this week due to the violence spurred on by the film, "Innocence Of Muslims".  How much longer must we wait to realize and declare that blatant and intentional hate speech is a violation, not a complement to the Freedom of Speech that is our Constitutional Right, and should be preserved from the pollution and perversion such hatred in speech, breeds............Fr.  Troy