Persuasive Essay: Jailed For Speaking Your Mind

As citizens we have the right to articulate one 's opinions and ideas without fear of government retaliation. With this right we also have limitation, But you can always get around the limitation by following the phrase “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.” Coming off wrong with the right concept can have a different outcome then coming off in a respectful way. Exercising the right to speaking your mind could be a positive thing or a negative thing.
Vin Suprynowicz, entitled “ Jailed for speaking her mind,” is about how a women name Janice Barton was leaving the Peppermill Restaurant in the Lake Michigan shoreline community of Manistee in August of 1998 . Barton and her family tried to make their way through the crowd, a man spoke in Spanish and asked his wife to make room for them.” Barton then made a rude comment about how she wish these spics would speak english.What Barton didn 't know that Carol Benitez, one of the Spanish speakers and an off-duty Manistee County sheriff’s deputy was on the elevator also. Later on Janice was charged with disturbing the peace and later her charged was changed to “ insulting

Limitations on our first amendment right makes it a contradicting right. We can say whatever we want but if you break the rules, the government will penitalies you for that. Barton was charged with disturbing the peace and later her charged was changed to “ insulting conduct in a public place, for utilizing her right of freedom of speech. Instead of Barton saying “I wish these damned Spics would learn to speak English.” to “ I wish people would speak english in a public environment, because it would make more people feel comfortable” Barton would most likely not have been charged. That is where “It 's not what you say but how you say it comes to play.” Express who you are through the way you speak to