Overreaction Posits Bad News for Free Speech

Sometime in the past, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling made a private comment to his now-ex-girlfriend.  He asked that she refrain from bringing Black people to Clippers basketball games.  Sterling did not intend to publicly broadcast the comment.  Nevertheless, a recording of it appeared on the celebrity gossip website TMZ earlier this week.  Now, amid public outrage at Sterling’s thoughtcrime, the NBA has opened an “investigation” of the matter;

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Lost Vermin Supreme Interview Uncovered

It was late December 2011.  I sat at my computer, watching the live stream of the lesser-known Republican and Democratic presidential candidates forum.  My only interest was as a citizen journalist for Wikinews,  covering the candidates the mainstream media chose to ignore. I did not expect anything out of the ordinary.

As the Democratic Party forum commenced, I noticed a bearded man dressed in green with a rubber boot on his head take the stage. I couldn’t help but laugh.  I recognized this man, having attempted earlier in the year to remove his Wikipedia entry as a frivolous candidate.  His name was Vermin Supreme, the “friendly fascist,”