Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

If they weren't so pridefully ignorant of history they'd know that the US has historical examples of state officials prosecuting "hate speech" before the First Amendment protections were used in the way they hate. When the Federalists made it Sedition to criticize or mock the President. When the Southern States outlawed abolitionist writing or speaking as offenses against the culture of the South. When states criminalized not saying the Pledge for being an offense against America. When the government outlawed criticizing war or the draft for presenting a "clear and present danger" like "shouting fire in a crowded theater." When the government tried to prosecute a dude for rhetorically saying he'd take up arms against the President to protect himself from oppression. I could go on and on.

I remember in highschool a student was told to go to the principals office for refusing to stand for the pledge sometime after Iraqi freedom begun. 

Nice "freedom of speech" we got here in America.