To: MEG33
This is carrying free speech too far.I thought it was surely a joke. One of the great benefits of free speech is that it can show just how nasty and evil some groups can be.
I've long felt that the spotlight of free speech destroyed the last resurgence of the KKK groups. Letting them be hateful a$$es in public allowed people to see what a pathetic joke they were.
Letting people listen to the hateful screeds that lay at the center of Islam will push people away from Muslim sympathy.
6 posted on
03/15/2004 7:20:56 PM PST by
Ophiucus
To: Ophiucus
What destroyed the last resurgence of the Klan was the ability of lawyers to have the organizations sued when the members committed crimes; by holding the groups responsible, the courts bankrupted them.
While I have no sympathy for the Klan, the danger in that precedent is that it may be used to bankrupt other groups (Pro Life, etc.) when individuals with loose ties at best commit crimes.
7 posted on
03/15/2004 7:26:28 PM PST by
Tuco Ramirez
(Ideas have consequences.)
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