Freedom of Speech and other countries

It is a wonderful feeling believing no other civilized country except America would have persons with the mental aptitudes of a Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin articulating utter nonsense driving its political news cycles.
And since I have that belief, the American “freedom of speech” issue comes up.

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the right to freedom of religion and freedom of expression from government interference.

And
The right to freedom of speech is recognized as a human right under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted in 1948

I find it hard to believe framers of the Constitution had people like Limbaugh, Beck and Palin in mind when said people had freedom of speech. I would like to believe they were talking about rational speech from gentlemen. I think at the time they were speaking of rich, white landowners until the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Even in 1948 I believe they were talking about rational speech but this time, it would be for everybody.

In my opinion, a country has meaningful growth with the accepted wisdom of its most vocal and respected citizenry. Wisdom is to a healthy citizenry as water is to a tree.

Lesson should have been learned long ago by Mainstream Media including television producers and blog managers that a country can not prosper and grow on a steady diet of trifles. I suspect they feel we should feel what Limbaugh, Beck and Palin are saying is as important to us as it is to them.

If we continue along this path, Sarah Palin will indeed be on the Presidential ticket for 2012 and we will all vote for her out of fears of being called a Nazi.

As always,
BB