Posted on 06/12/2009 1:03:03 PM PDT by Lorianne
If yesterday's Holocaust Museum slaying of security guard and national hero Stephen Tyrone Johns is not a clarion call for banning hate speech, I don't know what is. Playwright Janet Langhart Cohen appeared on CNN yesterday right after the shooting, as she wrote a play that was supposed to have been debuted at the Holocaust Museum last night. Her play is about Emmett Till, whose lynching helped launch the Civil Rights Movement, and Ann Frank, whose diary told the story of Holocaust victims in hiding in the Netherlands during World War II.
She said something must be done about ridding the Internet and the public dialogue of hate speech. I agree. Not only have we had three hate crime murders within the last two weeks (Mr. Johns, as noted above, Dr. George Tiller a week ago last Sunday, and Pvt. William Andrew Long by an American-born Muslim convert outside a recruiting station just before that.)
Now we have this quote from Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who used to be President Obama's pastor. Hate comes from among all peoples and all religions. He said this about his lack of communication with Barack Obama since he's been elected president:
"Them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office," Wright told the Daily Press of Newport News following a Tuesday night sermon at the 95th annual Hampton University Ministers' Conference.
It's not enough to prosecute these murders as murders. They are hate-motivated crimes and each of these men had been under some sort of police surveillance prior to their actions. Isn't it time we started rounding up promoters of hate before they kill?
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Round him (and others) up? For what they say?
Who are the real fascists here?
That socialist pagan proves that all socialist pagans must be removed from the internet
They are climate-motivated crimes. Isn't it time we start rounding up global warming deniers?
They are politically-motivated crimes. Isn't it time we start rounding up Obama bashers?
The possibilities are endless...
Okay, I’m finding myself in a position of supporting the right of Rev. Jeremiah Wright to speak.
First amendment. They might want to check it out.
No, it’s not. I understand the alternative.
OFF TOPIC.
http://www.rewardsforjustice.net
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/fugitives.htm
http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/terrorismsi.htm
How come I don't think that includes The New Black Panthers & CAIR?
I must be racist.
wright isn’t who they’d round up..it’d be conservatives, gun owners etc..etc...the liberals will still be able to offer “diverse” opinions..
If yesterday’s Holocaust Museum slaying of security guard and national hero Stephen Tyrone Johns is not a clarion call for banning hate speech, I don’t know what is.
and who, exactly, gets to determine what is hate speech and what isn’t?
I totally agree. I don’t like what Jeremiah Wright says...but he has a right to say it.
This notion of “rounding people up” sounds like East Germany.
You don’t punish people for speaking freely.
Preemptive incarceration against those who exercise free speech == good.
Preemptive war == bad.
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The time is near where the left will simply laugh at any reference to the Constitution while they haul conservatives “to the wall”.
Erbe proves what an idiot she is with everything she writes.
Round them up? Who will be the judge of what is hate speech?
All leftists consider themselves to be part of the “elite” that will make all decisions for others. 99% of them are wrong.
The First Amendment is sooo 1789.
Forget this hate crimes BS. Let the morons spill their guts. Give’m enough rope and they’ll hang themselves.
They’re gonna need one big ass wall and a whole crapload of haulers.
***That socialist pagan proves that all socialist pagans must be removed from the internet****
Then DU would be no more!
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