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Article: COMMENT: Free speech must not lead to anarchy.
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- Mortgage Strategy
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- March 13, 2006
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Freedom of speech is important in private life and in industry, but you must ensure you get your facts straight before you make allegations about people or companies, says Richard Griffiths
An 18 year old student commits blasphemy. He questions his religious faith. Swift retribution follows with a prosecution, conviction and death by hanging. Are we talking about Baghdad or Tehran in the Middle East? No, we are talking about Edinburgh, Scotland, just over 300 years ago in the year 1696.
The case involved a student named Thomas Aikenhead and the authorities of the Scottish Church, the Kirk. Aikenhead was prosecuted under a law that dictated those ...