To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I know that I will somehow get accused of being a pedophile lover, but we are a free society. Unless he acts on his words, then he has the right to claim to be anything he wants. In fact, he should sue for being constantly “monitored” by law enforcement. If I claim to be a black hater, yet I don’t act upon hurting a black person, then I have committed no crime and should not face harassment for my speech.
8 posted on
08/25/2007 5:55:51 PM PDT by
BKerr
(It's better to be tried by twelve than to be carried by six.)
To: BKerr
If I claim to be a black hater, yet I don’t act upon hurting a black person, then I have committed no crime and should not face harassment for my speech.Unless a court says it is, in which case it's tough cookies for you.
That's the fatal flaw in the whole thought crime/hate crime fallacy.
Justice can demand punishment for actual behavior, not for thinking or drawing a crude picture of a gun, for example.
23 posted on
08/25/2007 9:18:59 PM PDT by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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