Revolutionary Rants

I got the Guardian yesterday (it had ‘The Wicker Man’ on DVD free in it!!!) and one article that really stood out for me was this.

Once again, in the post-Irving weekend quiet, the words ‘free speech’ rear their ugly heads… I can’t get away from them at the moment, and this case, as with a great many others recently, highlights the great difficulties we have with ‘granting’ complete liberties in this huge, global, plural world of ours [America's].

First off, don’t get me wrong, I think people that hurt or threaten other people because of the (however awful and disgusting) things they do to animals is akin to pro-lifers killing people in abortion clinics - i.e. it seems to stamp out any point they had in the first place - and I think this kid should be free to say what he wants. However, it is amusing - at best - and creepy -generally -that Professors and pharmaceutical companies are hiding behind a 16-year-old high school drop out (it was ‘too boring’, he apparently wants a fast track to neurosurgery via his blog…) rather than defending their Oxford lab themselves.

Well, typical, really, isn’t it?