Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
How can the Local Council vote to grant (or withhold) what should be an absolute right in any modern democracy? IF the Orange order decided to march around St. Peter's Roman Catholic cathedral in Belfast chanting "the Pope is a queer" until they collapsed from exhaustion, they should have that right. Should some Catholic take offense to their speech and answer them, with speech, they're still well within their rights. But if the Catholics respond with violence, then the answer is to imprison the Catholics for engaging in violence, not denying a right to the Orangemen.

Think about it guys... the gist of the argument for even having a parade committe is "You have freedom of speech, but only the freedom to say that which will not offend others". That's no freedom of speech at all.
Don:

Some of the actual Anglos can correct me on this, but I suspect that -- absent a written Constitution such as you and I live under -- there is no basic right to freedom of speech. Such freedom is a hallowed custom in England, but not -- I believe -- codified in any fashion so basic as ours.

Seamus