"Free Speech Doesn't Come Without Cost" <Tab/>In an essay written in the Wall Street Journal, in 2001, the author, Gregg Easterbrook, mentions the Bill of Rights. He mentions the First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, and the misunderstanding of this amendment. How It "Guarantees a right to free speech, but hardly guarantees speech will be with out cost." Is there no cost if you say what the majority audience wants to hear? …
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…of freedom of speech disappears. We all have ideas and meanings to what free speech means to us. What we expect from one another in our country has such fine lines to follow. When it comes down to it, we must be responsible for what we say, and hold ourselves accountable for the possible backlash one might get for speaking freely. This is what our country is about. Freedom no matter at what high cost.