You're going to see you.

How are you Dr Paul?

I am doing fine and I'd like to talk about a very important issue.

It's in the news and we've heard about it for a long time

and it's fully discussed but poorly understood and that has to do with hate crimes and hate speeches and there's lots of excuses to punish people for hate speech. And I'd like to sort of get in a discussion. of what is protected under the First Amendment and quite frankly I think they're too loosely

defined especially the hate speech and what should be done.

But I happen to have this belief which is a very libertarian constitutional belief that

Speech should be protected. It's an individual right and that we shouldn't use it as an excuse to punish people differently than anybody else.

But we should have the right to free speech and that means you can't slander and you can't libel people.

So there are those kind of limits.

But when they start talking about political correctness and speech that shouldn't be not permitted,

and then turn these into crimes, you have to deal with the idea of subjectivity. Can you it of course a libertarian should be able to

draw lines a little bit better than the republicans and the democrats and draw the line

that the crime occurs when violence is occurring.

And sometimes there's fuzziness in there and you have to work that out.

But for the most part, it's pretty easy to define it when somebody throws the first stone or punches the

throws the first bunch and then it's offensive versus defensive but it

certainly has come up on this recent episode in Virginia you, the demagoguing going on and the blame game going on and Republicans

understanding versus the Democrat understanding.

But I think we have heard not a whole lot about the libertarian position on this issue.

Yeah, and you know, as you pointed out too, the rights of free speech is not something granted by government, it's granted by the Creator, you know.

So the idea is that is a restriction of government restriction on speech.

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