[SmithL]

Seen the Light Ping

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[freedumb2003]

Intersting this is in sfgate...

But we need to be mindful that the 1st Amendment doesn't apply to private institutions, such as businesses and private schools (although those can be eceonomically influenced).

[Jeff Blogworthy]

Here in the United States, leftists often decry what they see as censorship emanating from the right, when in fact most of the true silencing of speech has come from within their own ranks.

Bingo. Good article.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The price of living in a free society is that one has to be tough enough to take whatever words come one's way. Accommodating the infantile crybaby Left is rapidly destroying the very thing that set America apart from the monarchies of Europe int he first place.

[observer5]

There needs to be an effort to have the Quoran (Koran) declared as HATE SPEECH. What it says about "infidels" and what it calls for is clearly HATE SPEECH.

OUTLAW ISLAM!

[Archon of the East]

speech becomes a crime when leftist take control and instill their tyranny in the name of fairness.

[RexBeach]

Reminds me of a story from a several years ago here in DC. A white city official was having a meeting with a number of city workers(who were mostly black) and he used the word "niggardly" in reference to some kind of money issue. He was summarily fired....even though the word "niggardly" has nothing to do with black folk. Nothing. This was subsequently pointed out in a newspaper article, but the gentlemen still did not get his job back.

That's how I recall it. But that's DC for you. What a bunch of pinheads.

A story published here yesterday indicates that DC now has the highest incidence of HIV/AIDS in the nation. Gee, what a surprise.

[piytar]

In contrast, the libs think that disclosing operational details of a top secret anti-terror program is "free speach," despite an utter lack of free speach grounds (i.e., corruption, illegality, etc.) to justify such disclosure.

Liberalism really is a mental disorder, isn't it?

[razorback-bert]

Vice President for Student Affairs Cornel Morton called attention to Hinkle's blond hair and blue eyes and the fact that Hinkle was a white male member of the Republican club. Morton said that to students of color, this could represent "a collision of experience." The chemistry of the situation has racial implications, Morton said, and Hinkle was naïve not to acknowledge this.

Somehow, I doubt if the situation was reversed that there would be any stink.

[soccermom]

Canada is getting really bad. There, people really are fined by the government for saying things against homosexuality. The Knights of Columbus was fined for declining to allow their social hall to be used for a gay wedding! It is really chilling what they do in Canada. A lady called into Bill O'Reilly's show yesterday stating that free speech in Canda was limited and he just discounted her out-of-hand. I can't believe he isn't aware of what is going on up there. Heck, isn't his show banned up there?

[soccermom]

Canada is getting really bad. There, people really are fined by the government for saying things against homosexuality. The Knights of Columbus was fined for declining to allow their social hall to be used for a gay wedding! It is really chilling what they do in Canada. A lady called into Bill O'Reilly's show yesterday stating that free speech in Canda was limited and he just discounted her out-of-hand. I can't believe he isn't aware of what is going on up there. Heck, isn't his show banned up there?

[Carry_Okie]

There is a distinction between speech codes in public versus private employ: The latter has the right to dismiss as a right pertaining to private property; the former does not.

[steve-b]

What do the above examples have in common?

Not much, really.

Two of them (Fallaci and Irving) are examples of the abuse of government power.

One of them (Smith) is an example of the termination of an employment contract in accordance with the legitimate rights of the employer.

One of them (Hinkle) is an example of a breach of contract.

[AppyPappy]

British neo-Nazi David Irving is sentenced to three years in prison in Austria for a 1989 speech in which he committed the crime of Holocaust denial.

The one difference being that Austria was involved in the Holocaust. If some guy in China does it, no one cares.