If my thoughts and beliefs are not accepted as valid by another reader, it`s their right to say as much isn`t it?..and without them being penalized for having "passion" about a subject, and without their risk of being stifled from speech, or worse being blacklisted.  I`m more offended by the lies allowed to be told in the media about a "million barrels a day" if we just fork over a billion in cash to Exxon every year under SB21. THAT "free speech" (some would say propaganda) offended me far more as an Alaskan and American than anything I have ever seen in the previous Dispatch comments system.