Anti-Muslim Subway Ads Enjoy the Freedom to Offend

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Most of us accept that the sharing of offensive statements and beliefs are just the price we pay to live in a free society. There’s no law that says we have to like it. We just have to support each other’s right to speak freely. Sometimes, though, it’s tempting to wish we could lock Pamela Geller and her buddies in a junior high gymnasium with Muslim extremists, arm them all with rotten tomatoes, and let them have at it.