Posted on 04/24/2017 7:29:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I grudgingly admire this dude’s willingness to go all-in on his position after having been scolded last week by half the lawyers on the Internet. If you’re out to censor your political opponents on “hate speech” grounds, you can’t let some clucking by First Amendment experts frighten you.
He mentions three cases that supposedly make Ann Coulter’s right to speak at Berkeley a “close call” which ultimately can be infringed on “safety” grounds or whatever. One is the Chaplinsky decision from 1942, in which the Supreme Court held that “fighting words” can be banned because they’re likely to lead to violence. The second is the Snyder v. Phelps decision from a few years ago, when an 8-1 Court upheld the Westboro Baptist Church’s right to picket a fallen soldier’s funeral. The third is the 2002 decision in Virginia v. Black, when the Court ruled that certain types of cross-burnings can be prohibited by the state. Here’s what happened in that case:
On May 2, 1998, respondents Richard Elliott and Jonathan O’Mara, as well as a third individual, attempted to burn a cross on the yard of James Jubilee. Jubilee, an African-American, was Elliott’s next-door neighbor in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Four months prior to the incident, Jubilee and his family had moved from California to Virginia Beach. Before the cross burning, Jubilee spoke to Elliott’s mother to inquire about shots being fired from behind the Elliott home. Elliott’s mother explained to Jubilee that her son shot firearms as a hobby, and that he used the backyard as a firing range....
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Of course it does.
Hate speech is non-speech. And leftists are reading 1984? That’s exactly the doublespeak Orwell wrote about.
We don’t need the First Amendment for ‘safe’ ideas that don’t offend anyone. We need it for controversial ideas so that we can debate them and defeat them.
The left has lost their ability to engage in debate (because they have the losing argument) and have to resort to fascism to shut people up.
No, really, Howie, you’re a half-pint douche nozzle!
People like Dean are why we need the second amendment
So Dean is still stuck on stupid and has no desire to get unstuck.
Quick scoreboard. No borders. Women can be mutilated and oppressed. No God. No free speech. Legal drugs. What a party.
and of course the left will define what hate speech is for us. and that would be any speech that disagrees with the left of course.
dunno. if Hillary had been elected president, I don’t hesitate to think that we would have had Europe-like speech laws — or worse — just as soon as her SCOTUS appointment could have been seated to hear them.
I’m reading columns where I’m being threatened for what I believe and the columns think this is a good thing.
I’m reading columns talking about disenfranchising me because I question the liberal ethos.
I’m reading columns justifying violence against people like me.
I’m reading columns calling for litmus tests for running for student government on campus.
None of this bothers Howard Dean.
No - he’s talking about silencing speech he doesn’t like personally.
And he’s being applauded.
And just that was enough of a reason to pull the lever for Don Trump, no matter what you might think of him.
I don’t recall it containing an exception or a definition of who gave or gives said definition.
We have tens of millions of guns and billions of rounds of ammunition. What does Governor Dean have?
Dean has been unhinged since before he was governor. The policies he set in motion are and will destroy this state.
And so, Howard, who defines “hate speech”? You? The UN? Besides. I don’t recall that qualifier in the first amendment. These people on the left are such braying asses.
Amen to that.
These fools are pulling the tigers tail.
Eventually the tiger will turn and eat them.
Everything a liberal says is hate speech. They should be banned from speaking!
Define “hate”, Mr. Dean.
Howard wants to live in the kind of world that would end up with people like him getting hanged.
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