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Freedom of speech must be defended, even for homophobes, no Harry's Place:

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has dropped all charges against homophobic Christian street preacher, Dale McAlpine, shortly after gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell offered to testify in defence of his right to free speech. (...)

“Although I disagree with Dale McAlpine and support protests against his homophobic views, he should not have been arrested and charged. Criminalisation is a step too far." (...)

“Nearly everyone holds opinions that someone else might find offensive. If offending others is accepted as a basis for prosecution, most of the population of the UK would end up in court. (...)", said Mr Tatchell.

The Gifted Underachiever - Marching to a Different Drummer?:

My concern is with the common perception of underachievement when it occurs in a gifted population as a problem, a pathology, a situation to be altered. The literature does not address in any depth just WHY underachievement is perceived of as a problem. Phrases such as "not working to potential", "not fulfilling ones responsibility to society", or "wasting a life" abound, without specifying just what is meant by those phrases or without demonstrating how the import of the statements is applicable to the student or students so labeled. (...)

It has been my experience that these students are not particularly concerned about their underachievement except for the fact that it may make their parents and other significant people unhappy. They are concerned about their choices in life, their need to explore a variety of options regarding their lives and their ability to reconcile their current life experience with their perceptions of the future. They appear to have a strong need to determine their own futures. (...)

Different drummers produce different music. Marching to a different drummer may produce a different, more interesting, more exciting, more integrated person when that person is given the opportunity to complete the march

From Two States to One, por Ran HaCoehen, no AntiWar.com:

Critical Israelis – the last of the Mohicans – know that there are two Jewish states in the Land of Israel: the state of Israel, and the Occupied Territories. The former is rather democratic, the latter is a dictatorship. The former is ruled by a government and police who impose law and order, the latter is a Wild East ruled by the military and terrorized by settlers. A crime on this side of the Green Line is a patriotic deed beyond it.  (...)

But the right-wing Israeli governments – and all Israeli governments are right-wing or worse – have never liked this way of looking at things, symbolized by the Green Line. The Green Line makes the wrong impression: someone might err to think that the territory beyond it isn’t ours. So Israel, the older Jewish state, has been doing its best to erase the line.(...)

 But what is happening now is that the two Jewish states are turning into one not in the predicted way.