[swilhelm73]

And so freedom of thought comes to an end in Sweden.

[annyokie]

Consider the source. Derbyshire is a self-congratulating homophobe.

[DannyTN]

Are there appeals to higher courts there?

[EGPWS]

Freedom sure can be detrimental to one's freedom can't it?....

[EGPWS]

Crimes are crimes

When ludafisk is outlawed, only ludafisk eaters will be outlaws.

[Tacis]

Fortuneately, there NEVER will be limits on the nasty things you can say about whites, Christians, middle-class folks and Americans. The normalphobes have won the fairies issue and aside from fairy priests and the parents of the deviants, themselves (we all love our children and place the blame for their failures and weaknesses on external issues), I still don't understand what constituencies had enough clout to have accomplished this.

But, in Sweden, assume I'm walking along with my 12 year old son, Lars, a fine young man and some obvious tinkerbell walks up and asks to "play" with Lars. I refuse, some discussion takes place and he calls a cop and charges me with offending him by not giving him "access" (whatever that means in faggot) to my son. Where did these deviants get this kind of power? Who is supporting them and why? Are there forces at work that we don't see or understand?

[Caipirabob]

The gay nazi's...it used to be a joke. How times change.

[bourbon]

"When the lights go out," by Oingo Boingo.

When the lights go out
Everybody has fun
When the lights go out
Everybody runs to a safe place
When the lights go out
Everybody's afraid
When the lights go out
Everybody starts to pray
Starts to pray

Monsters & Madmen
All come alive
When the dead start walking
There's no place to hide
There's no place to hide

CHORUS
Hey--Let's turn the night into day
Let's start a fire in an alley way
Let's all go crazy by & by
And let's all pray to the cat's eye

No one can be trusted, when the lights go out
People act real crazy, people start to shout
People huddle together, try and hide their fear
People party down by they ain't goin' nowhere
They ain't goin' nowhere

Gonna run outside
What's there to see
Just one big shadow there to comfort me
There to comfort me . . . there to comfort me

CHORUS

Just common folks like you and me
Turn into mobs that get so crazy
Prowl the streets like cats
Out for the hunt
Breaking all the windows just because it's fun
Just because it's fun, just because it's fun

[Dec31,1999]

This is an example of what Ross Perot was talking about with regard to the Line Item veto, which would have allowed the Standing President to exclude CERTAIN ITEMS upon signing the bill in question. I voted for Perot in 92, and so should you all have. You reap what you sow.

And I wash my hands of your demolition. :)

[Jimbaugh]

Swedish pastor sentenced to one month's jail for offending homosexuals

Stockholm (ENI). A Swedish court has sentenced a pastor belonging to the Pentecostal movement in Sweden, Ake Green, to a month in prison, under a law against incitement, after he was found guilty of having offended homosexuals in a sermon. Soren Andersson, the president of the Swedish federation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights (RFSL), said on hearing the sentence that religious freedom could never be used as a reason to offend people. "Therefore," he told journalists, "I cannot regard the sentence as an act of interference with freedom of religion." During a sermon in 2003, Green described homosexuality as "abnormal, a horrible cancerous tumour in the body of society".

It is later than you think. ! ! !

[Mr Ramsbotham]

If it ever gets to the point where I can't open my mouth and criticize anyone I damned well please, I'll take to the underground and become a terrorist.

[Uncle Miltie]

Just to be clear where I stand:

Homosexual "marriage" is not good for children compared to one mother and one father.

Saudi Arabia is the source of Al Quaida's funding, ideology, training, personnel, and leadership.

The French Suck.

Canadians are evil mean people who curtail free speech rights.

My college hires whack-jobs who self-desecrate in order to create hate crimes.

If Black Americans would quit desecrating their most recently chosen name with their behavior, we wouldn't have to call them African Americans (or anything else) next.

Did I forget anyone?

[BenLurkin]

The Swedes aren't too big on the whole "liberty" thing.

[sionnsar]

Shine, Perishing Republic
Robinson Jeffers

While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity,heavily thickening to empire,
And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the mass hardens,
I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots to make earth.
Out of the mother; and through the spring exultances, ripeness and decadence; and home to the mother.

You making haste, haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly
A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.
But for my children, I would have them keep their distance from the thickening center; corruption
Never has been compulsory, when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.

And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever servant, insufferable master.
There is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that caught -- they say -- God, when he walked on earth.

-- Robinson Jeffers

[megatherium]

The paster said that homosexuality is a cancerous tumor on society. This sort of medical language mirrors the language used by the Nazis against the Jews in the 1930s and 1940s. It is exterminationist: you must cut a cancerous tumor out. I think this might be the grounds on which the pastor was convicted of hate speech.

If the pastor had said, "We believe homosexuality is wrong and that homosexuals can change or at least live holy, celibate lives", would he have been convicted of hate speech? I don't know about the Swedish law, but it is my impression that these sorts of laws do contain exemptions for statements of religious beliefs.

[Salvation]

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