http://hutchinsonleader.com/news/opinion/letter-comedian-george-carlin-s-free-speech-legacy-lives-9106 Comments for "LETTER: Comedian George Carlin’s free-speech legacy lives on" en http://hutchinsonleader.com/news/opinion/letter-comedian-george-carlin-s-free-speech-legacy-lives-9106 <p>By Gene Policinski </p> <p>George Carlin is gone, but the kinds of free-speech conflicts he skewered in his comedic routines live on. So does the national debate over where First Amendment protections end and government regulation begins on broadcast speech and speech in public.</p> <p>Not all such conflicts directly involve First Amendment consideration — some are more involved with the “spirit” of free speech than with statutory definitions. But all encompass a kind of national question: “Can you say that?”</p> <br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://hutchinsonleader.com/news/opinion/letter-comedian-george-carlin-s-free-speech-legacy-lives-9106">read more</a></p> http://hutchinsonleader.com/news/opinion/letter-comedian-george-carlin-s-free-speech-legacy-lives-9106#comments Opinion Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:20:56 -0500 Melissa Sullivan 9106 at http://hutchinsonleader.com