Comment Re:WTF? (Score 1) 922
You are not being very coherent. The First Amendment prevents Congress (and, thanks to the Fourteenth Amendment, the States) from making laws restricting the freedom of speech. It says nothing about the content of the speech. I am not a lawyer, but the straightforward reading is that Congress/the States are prevented from making any laws that restrict any type of speech whatsoever. It does not say that the topic of the speech must be political. In practice, the Supreme Court has ruled that laws may be enacted punishing libel, and certain types of speech that may incite immediate violence.
You are right in that the First Amendment does not protect people from private action (e.g. being fired for making racial slurs). But it does not protect only those speakers who are speaking against (or about) the government.