Government, by its very nature, is designed to protect us from the freedoms of others. No man is completely free, unless he lives within a state of anarchy, and even then he is not free from the potential threats posed to his life and property by his neighbors.
This is a fact of life, an axiom, even more fundamental than the first ammendment.
The founding fathers of the United States accepted, as an "axiom", that all men are created equal.
And yet, for a century, the institution of slavery was maintained. Half of the population had no voice whatsoever until another half-a-century or so after that. It wasn't until even later that we decided that 18 years of age was young enough to vote. (Of course, I've just skipped over entirely the literacy tests, the land requirements, and so forth that existed at one point or another during our history).
We are free to practice business and pursue happiness and property as we see fit, yet we are not allowed to monopolize, as is evident from the many anti-trust cases which have arisen over our nation's history.
We possess "freedom of speech" in a nation with libel laws on the books, in a nation whose government fundamentally prevents the creation of more than two primary political parties, and in a nation where our president, bluntly, tells us that the voice of the people in anti-war protests means absolutely shit.
I could go on and on, but I am tired.
In any case, the fact of the matter is this: Government sets forth laws which establish a standard which all men are to be held to. In the very act of establishing these standards, these laws, government infringes upon our freedoms.
For what? The short explanation: for the common good, for the good of all citizens within a government. Government is designed to protects us, as individuals, from the individual freedoms of others - the freedom to rape and kill as we please, the freedom to lie and cheat and steal, the freedom to threaten others.
If any limitations whatsoever are imposed, it is inevitable that these limitations, to some extent, shall overstep their boundaries.
Should it, therefore, come as any surprise when Mr. Schulte decides to use his authority, as a government uses its authority, to protect some people who may have felt threatened from the freedoms of others?
However, it should come as no surprise that this has happened. Such things have happened countless times before.
And, so long as any government exists, it will happen countless times again.
The battle for Diaryland in the school of Radnor is only one battle within an entire war that shall undoubtedly go on for the rest of our lives.
Again, I'm not entirely certain as to what point I'm trying to make myself... but I think that it's important that, while fighing this dinky little battle, we remember its context and the grand war it is placed within.
Anywho, I'm calling it a night before I confuse anyone else.