In 1997 the Ku Klux Klan got permission to hold a rally on the front steps of the Allegheny County Courthouse. The sheetheads, 4 men and 1 woman, made all kinds of stupid, racist comments, while using every filthy, obscene word in the English language twice.

The crowd responded in kind. Happily there was a fence to keep them from doing anything except shouting rude words and raising their middle fingers.

Equally happily, the Klan's hate speech couldn't be published in the papers. (They don't print words like that.) Nor would the television news broadcast their vulgarities.

In short, they shot themselves in both feet, repeatedly. It was a beautiful thing to watch.

That is why I love free speech. It gives jackasses the right to let the whole world know what jackassed they are.

By the way, after the rally, one of the Klan idiots quit the Klan. He got his nose rubbed in the fact that he was a jackass, and decided to wise up.