Giffords: advocate of free speech--Clyburn: not so much

  Gabrielle Giffords read the First Amendment in Congress the day before the assassination attempt on her life. What is remarkable is that now her own party is trying to restrict free speech because of what happened to her.
  Any public official, in fact, any person who leaves work in the morning (but particularly those who work in the public eye), runs the risk of what happened to Giffords.
  Now they're all running scared, demanding more security, more money, more limits to free speech and behavior. Just what they need: to be more separated from society, to be more privileged.
  It is ironic that those who are calling for a return to the limiting of free speech on the radio and tv are harkening back to the days when there were only a few stations and the FCC had control over speech with the Fairness Doctrine. Of course, that control over speech didn't stop the murders of JFK, RFK, MLK....(none of whom were tea partiers).
  Ironic. Here is Giffords, obviously an advocate of free speech and a supporter of the First Amendment.

  And here is a member of her own party, using her injuries and the events that occasioned them as political fodder to achieve gain over his opponents.