why doesn’t the 1st amendment cover tweets?

I’m not really sure where to begin, my frustrations over this loom so wide. Let me begin this way. Should not our First Amendment rights to free speech protect us from our employers?

It seems things have gotten to a certain surreal ridiculousness. Point 1, when did we get to the point where we expect perfection of speech from anyone & everyone, especially those in power, leadership, or just simply stardom? No one is allowed the mishap of a Freudian slip, after one too many at the dinner party, without it becoming frontpage news in the morning post. So often these ‘incidents’ become so over blown that they end up causing the said person to lose their job.

Where is the grace. Where is the mercy.

To those who consider this a ‘Christian nation’ I would like to see leading the reins on this one.

Can’t we just allow that people will screw up. Can’t we admit that even today in our ‘progressive’ 21st century world we all still have deep seated prejudices and they will come out on occasion.

Point 2, when did it become impossible for anyone of the above said stature to have wild statements. Why can not the senior editor of Middle Eastern affairs for CNN say something as {wildly benign} as: “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah … One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot.”

Oh no, one of us Americans is considering the humanity of one of….them!!!

Come on Americans, we will never get any closer to ending our long struggles in the Middle East if this is the way we will continue to react. We must slow down in our reaction and stop & consider Fadlallah as a person, the same as you and me.

I always wanted to believe that CNN was different than the other network news station, but this only proves that they are simply a tool like the rest.

Octavia Nasr, I’m sorry; they don’t speak for me and my family, we respect your respect of the other.