day no. 17,292: free speech, eh? says who?

"The First Amendment does not grant us the right to free speech. As the Declaration phrases it, we are endowed by our Creator with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That word happiness in an earlier draft was property. The right to free speech is a right that is subsumed under the right of liberty—to travel about as I please, talking about whatever I want to as I go. This is bestowed on us by our Creator, and the government has the obligation to guard and protect that right. If they were the ones who bestowed that right, then it is no longer a right, but rather a privilege. Whatsoever the government giveth, the government taketh away, and blessed be the name of the government." — Douglas Wilson, Not Civil Rights at All

We have the right to free speech. Says who? God. If the answer to that question is anything or anyone other than "God," we do not possess are right, but merely are taking advantage of a privilege, a privilege that can be revoked. If we have free speech because congress says so, then we are only free to speak as long as they continue to say so. But if they exercise their freedom of speech to say that we no longer can say certain things, then our freedom to speak can be taken away. 

Either rights come from God or they don't. If they do not, then our "rights" are whatever the State says they are. They retain the freedom to speak about whatever they want when they want including the right to say that our speech is not being policed o punishable by imprisonment. Hate speech may be a sin depending on what was said and whose standard of hate is being used, but it should never be a crime. It may be a sin to be stupid or spiteful, but it should not be illegal to say something stupid.