Is it free speech to prohibit someone else's free speech?

Couldn't have said it better myself!

No... free speech means that both sides of the argument should be heard.

No that's not fair i think. Everyone should be able to speak their mind. and espically seen those are soliders. But are they helping america or aganist america?. I don't know that's why im asking.

that's not free speech, that's suppression

It's called being a classless loon. Traditional societal norms allow people to voice their opinion freely, and then have oppposing viewpoints heard. Unfortunately, we have crazies running society now and everyday, they redefine the "normal", the "acceptable" according to the skewed, alternative reality in which they reside.

Free speech is free speech...

First of all, shouting over others is not communicating, which is the implication underlying the free speech clause. Second, anyone has a right to say what he wants (with some restrictions) but it does not mean that he has a right to claim a public platform as his own.

I agree with this too, so why did you vote no? Seems like we have a different understanding of the question.

I believe it's called "being an ass"

I say take the punks outside; give them a beat-down; then blame it on the "White Hispanics"..the seem to be the whipping boys of the month...

A good rule of thumb,, in MY opinion,, is that the rights of one person ends where the rights of another are being violated..

He is in no violation of the law! I'd do the same thing for a good cause! Right on Israeli! Right on!

MKRosen you seem to be only interested in Israel. Yes a Jewish homeland is important. There are other important issues too such as Republican cuts to medicaid, medicare,social security, slashing of social services to the needy, including people with disabilities. You seem to posses a one track mind. To reply to your question it seems like conundrum to me. IMHO the speaker should be permitted to finish his speech. Then let hte heckler say what wanted to too. The man who did the heckling was rude. He seems to like to bully people. What if the speaker was a neonazi spewing hate?

Hecking IS rude - and it's also free speech

No, it's not wise to openly display one's ignorance.

i say no, but the questions in its self is a causal loop, what the person is saying is free speech yet preventing the other person from saying what they want to is not free speech

Just rude and stupid ... a lot like bullying.

We have the right to free speech. Prohibiting it as an excuse from "criminals and terrorists" is stupid and should be abolished.

HOWEVER, it IS free speech to speak against what another is saying.

No,its rude. Let them finish, then voice your opinion.

Etiquette and simplicities of life are very down in today's society. We keep heading in the wrong direction.

I agree with your statement, however, if you PROHIBATE someone else from voicing their opinion, you would be violating their constitutional rights. Even if you disagree with them wholeheartedly, it would be wrong to stop them. Just like it was wrong for the police to arrest a gentleman who was reading from the Bible in the parking lot to the DMV. I believe his arrest was illegal, because they violated his constitutional rights.

Keep in mind that while we all share the same freedom of speech, that freedom is NOT absolute (remember the Supreme Court's "yelling fire in a crowded theater" ruling). That free speech which is, in any particular moment and venue, going to cause disruption and/or violence, may at that moment be strictly legal, but exercising that freedom may be irresponsible. In the case discussed here, the other members of the audience who DID want to hear what the two soldiers had to say had a social responsibility to beat the living piss out of the heckler. Rudeness should ALWAYS be met with violence. That's the only way we're ever going to end it.

I think its okay that its illegal to disrupt someone else freedom of speech

But ONLY as long as it's done in a private forum.

Any time the venue (and funding) has anything to do with taxpayers getting mulcted, it's a government activity, and no officer of civil government has any lawful power to infringe upon the private citizen's right freely to speak, assemble, and petition for redress of grievances.

This U.C. Davis forum was held on property owned and operated by the government of the State of California, so the heckler in question had a perfect right - as a private citizen - to speak his own piece.

What he did not have was any lawful right to prevent others from speaking.

Indeed, it's something of a comment upon the dedication of Americans to social comity and good civil order that this guy didn't leave the venue feet-first.

In the words of the late SF writer Keith Laumer:

"I is a great believer in peaceful settlements. [...] Ain't nobody as peaceful as a dead trouble-maker."

WOOT FREE SPEECH! What privately , are you crazy it's like not having free speech at all! YOU CAN DO THIS BUT NOT IF BLA BLA BLA! D:< I'm sorry to come off wrong but it is Free after all and they are not FORCED to listen they can just ignore him! -_-

It's rude! Unfortunately it is accepted in most liberal universities to be rude when someone is giving a speech or talk.

Personal freedoms and basic rights cease to be a basic right the moment it infringes upon the rights and freedoms of another. For example, you have the right to bear arms... you do not have the right to unjustly end another's life, liberty or health with that fire arm. You have the rightvto freedom of religion... you do not have the right to use religion to take away another's freedom of religion or any other freedom. Why is fee speech different? I submit to you that it is not and in fact should be help strike fly to the same standard. All the so called basically human rights in the bill of rights should be. No one single right should infringe upon another's rights ever. But that is just my humble opinion.

Security should have told the heckler to sit down and be quiet. If he refused he should have been shown the door.

Concussively, perhaps?

I can think of a few people that I'd like to do that to...white supremacists and Westboro Church people amongst them...but they still have the right to speak freely.

Well, at least most liberal's think so anyway

Everyone has a right to free speech. But, when you interrupt someone, it's just plain rude. Some people are really stupid.

no...it wouldn't be fair

I have always thought that there should be a class on the Constitution in school, just the way they have math and history. If they did this kid would have been embarrassed to say he was excersizing free speech.

Even if you don't agree with what they have to say, they still have the right to say it.

Sorry, but I think that is just another form of harassment. And the first amendment allows for all persons to have free speech. Period

Even if it's hate speech.

No....our rights come with responsibility and are limited from infringing on other peoples rights.That heckler should have been removed.