The Editor,
Thankfully, we live in a country where people are allowed to engage in legal speech, even if others do not agree with it or do not want us to speak it. Free speech is necessary for us to have our core value of freedom.
Unfortunately, there are people in other democracies who will do whatever they can to stop others from speaking about that with which they disagree.
The answer to bad speech should be responsive speech to address the complaint. The answer to bad speech should not deprive others from their right to free speech. Those who do so are bullies.
Unfortunately, that is what they have in the U.S. and the over-riding threat to free speech is lost in other things because the media wants to fuel controversy.
Brian Bastien, Coquitlam
