Posted on 11/28/2023 6:57:07 AM PST by lowbridge
Irish Green Party Senator Pauline O'Reilly recently defended her government's hate speech bill by suggesting that it is necessary to restrict people's freedoms by censoring gender-related speech that could make some feel "insecure" or uncomfortable.
She said: "When you think about [it], all legislation is about the restriction of freedom. That's exactly what we're doing here. We are restricting freedom, but we're doing it for the common good."
"You will see throughout our Constitution, yes, you have rights, [but] they are restricted for the common good. Everything needs to be balanced. And if your views on other people's identities go to make their lives unsafe, insecure, and cause them such deep discomfort that they cannot live in peace, then I believe that it is our job as legislators to restrict those freedoms for the common good."
The bill in question is The Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offenses) Act 2022, which is an update to a 1989 law. The Catholic News Agency reported that the country's Department of Justice could consider the 1989 iteration of the law "ineffective," citing that "new technological developments and newly prominent minorities such as people of different races and religions, persons with disabilities, and those who identify as LGBTQ."
The bill states: "Hate speech is designed to shut people down, to shut them up, to make them afraid to say who they are and to exclude and isolate them. There is nothing free about that, and there is, frankly, no place for it in our society.”
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That’s always the excuse, is it not?
Exactly. Unfortunately technology and advances in transportation make it too easy for people to just get up and move away from their problems.
But eventually you’ll have 80% of the population living on 20% of the land, and that’s just not sustainable.
Ways must be found to distribute prosperity everywhere.
As Rush said, the problem is “an unequal distribution of capitalism”.
Terrible and inevitable.
The bill states: “Hate speech is designed to shut people down, to shut them up, to make them afraid to say who they are and to exclude and isolate them. There is nothing free about that, and there is, frankly, no place for it in our society.”
There’s “no place for” that bill “in our society.”
and that shows one the true soul of the green party
So when there’s no freedom things will be perfect?
She could have given that speech at the Reichstag.
My password itself is probably Hate Speech. EEK!
how long now until you are told you must be executed for the common good? keep in mind that nearly every heinous thing we’ve been told for years could never happen IS happening. just fyi.
Needed: A new, non-commie version of the IRA. The task: Hunt down and dispatch each and every politician who had a hand in creating this legislation or voted to approve it.
What kind of societies are the Western democracies that allow mentally damaged women to take away their freedoms? And this in Ireland, no less, that resisted the British boot for centuries. It’s sad to watch them crumble to a bunch of globalist ninnies.
I may not agree with what you say, but shut up or I will beat you for it.
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