To the Editor:
Your decision not to run David Horowitz's ad based upon your view that it is both inflammatory and offensive is a smack in the face of the first amendment that smarts lovers of free speech everywhere. Every time you decide for me what is appropriate for me to read, you take a reckless swing at the foundation of speech, because free speech should never be defined by what the majority of your readers appreciate or by what you yourself respect, but instead by the document under which the idea is given expression. Horowitz is not crying fire in a crowded theatre; he is merely offering a different way of looking at the issue of slave reparations. I, for one, am interested in what he has to say. Who are you to decide for me?
Print the ad.
