Posted on 06/03/2014 9:34:44 AM PDT by John Semmens
Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass) is pushing legislation (S-2219) that would empower the federal government to monitor all media to ferret out “hate speech.”
“There is a large reservoir of bigotry in our population,” Markey said. “If we are to stamp it out we need to know who is spreading these vile thoughts. While we can’t listen in on everybody at this point we can access all communications passing over the Internet and airwaves.”
The Senator denied his Bill is an invasion of privacy. “The Internet and the airwaves are in the public domain,” Markey asserted. “In effect, this means that the Government owns these mediums and has both the right and the obligation to ensure that no hateful expressions are permitted on them. A necessary step to ensuring this is to find out who is abusing our communications systems for the purpose of fomenting hatred.”
Currently, Markey has no co-sponsors for his legislation—a phenomenon he attributes to the “climate of fear that has been successfully nurtured by the purveyors of hate. If these people can intimidate members of Congress to spurn this vital legislation it should be obvious that it is needed more than ever.”
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I guess Ed Shultz would fall into his category?
I hate Edward Markey.
“There is a large reservoir of bigotry in our population,”
...and its perfectly legal, protected speech and expression under the constitution of the United States.
“There is a large reservoir of bigotry in our population,”
Yeah those Black Panthers and race hustlers are a nasty bunch.
Is it really satire?
and of course, who gets to define “hate speech”?
“There is a large reservoir of bigotry in our population.”
You mean like Cuomo telling people whose religious principles he disagrees with to get out of New York?
Wouldn’t this law fly in the face of the First Amendment?
The GOPe will put on a good show of defiance, and then vote for it.
Welcome to Canada, commissar. Will that include hate directed at Christians or white males? (crickets chirping)
I imagine this will be used to silence all those who oppose the mentally deranged in this country?
Am I the only one outraged and completely frustrated at how upside down and wrong things are, in this country, now?
not with a living breathing constitution.
2+2=3
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