SPECIAL LETTER TO EACH VISITOR

I shall be more than glad to send you a little folder containing 84 direct quotes from the works of Alexander Meiklejohn. All you have to do is send me a self-addressed stamped envelope, addressed to:

Meiklejohn Direct Quotes
511 Verano Court
San Mateo, CA 94402.

Meiklejohn is the noted scholar and university president who is often quoted regarding the First Amendment's guarantee of the freedom that has to do with speech. It is Meiklejohn's views that I have sought for years to implement and expand.
His most significant quotes are these:

"When self-governing men demand freedom of speech they are not saying that every individual has an unalienable right to speak whenever, wherever, however he chooses. They do not declare that any man may talk as he pleases, when he pleases, about what he pleases, about whom he pleases. The common sense of any reasonable society would deny the existence of that unqualified right."

"Speaking as a form of human action, is subject to regulation in exactly the same sense as is walking, or lighting a fire, or shooting a gun. To interpret the First Amendment as forbidding such regulation is to so misconceive its meaning as to reduce it to nonsense."

"The First Amendment does not guarantee men freedom to say what some private interest pays them to say for its own advantage."

"What is essential is not that everyone shall speak, but that everything worth saying shall be said."

"It is the men who are seeking to enslave their fellows who today speak most loudly of liberty."

"In the field of common action, of public discussion, the freedom of speech shall not be abridged."

"The reason for this equality of status in the field of ideas lies deep in the very foundations of the self-governing process."

"Selling has no right to freedom. Men who sell news are merchants and must be treated as such."

"Commercialism controls most of what we see and hear."

"Manipulation of men is the destruction of self-government."

"We have given the name 'freedoms' to the most flagrant enslavement of our minds and wills."

Meiklejohn, however, failed to bring out, as I have done, the difference in connotation between the word speak and the word speech. The word speak generally denotes behavior before or about another person, whereas the word speech denotes what takes place between willing persons, i.e., a process, like conversation. A Stanford University professor has assured me that the two words have "overlapping" meaning, but that throughout history the word speech most often means the process of intercommunication, as opposed to mere one-way assertion.

I can cite Genesis 11:1 which tells of the whole world "being of one speech." And I frequently cite Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott and other English authors who write of persons being "in speech" with others.

Summarizing, I say when free and equal citizens meet face-to-face and discuss issues that arise in our system of democratic self-government, they agree beforehand to strictly regulate speaking in order that speech, in its truest sense, can take place.

Louis Worth Jones

	To: San Mateo Independent Editor - San Mateo, CA Subj: Free Speech
	To: Herald Tribune Editor - Sarasota, FLA. Subj: Free Speech
	To: Editor, The Washington Spectator Subj: Freedom of Conduct?
	Letter to a lawyer friend who has a Ph.D.. on the life and works of Alexander Meiklejohn in regards to "Meiklejohn and free speech"
	To: Ben Bagdikian, Professor Emeritus, School of Journalism UC Berkeley Subj: Free Speech and the Media Monopoly
	This letter was invited by a jurist, a personal friend of my son. It recaps my position on Free Speech - what it is and what it is not.
	To:John Swartley - San Jose Mercury News. Subj:What free speech is not
	To:Bill Workman - San Francisco Chronicle. Subj:Stanford Graffiti
	To:Editorial Staff- San Francisco Chronicle. Subj:Equal, not unequal, protection of the laws
	To:Brad Kava- San Jose Mercury News. Subj:Speech is a Process
	To:Editor- San Mateo Daily Journal. Subj:Federal appeals Court rules Internet "Hit List" lawful as "protected speech."