Posted on 06/04/2007 6:31:02 PM PDT by gpapa
Handing out anti-gay fliers is apparently a risky act in Crystal Lake, Illinois. A 16-year-old girl who did so was charged with a felony hate crime and held without bail at a juvenile detention center for more than two weeks. Then the judge relented and let her go home. But the girl is being treated like a dangerous mafia chieftain: she was brought to court in leg shackles, she wears an electronic ankle device, and her phone calls and Internet use are being monitored. Her trial starts on Tuesday, June 5. One of her friends, also 16, will be tried as well for helping distribute the fliers.
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I hope some Conservative law group takes her case.
It is definitely a ‘free speech’ issue...
The largest bank in the world didn't get that way by "excluding" anyone. Unless your credit score is below 500...
It's more than a free speech issue, it's an anti-fascist issue.
Meadow Muffin
Free Speech only applies if you have a leftist point of view.
Because Political Correctness is about criminalizing conservative thought.
You must have been speaking of Venezuela or an Eastern Bloc country. Certainly not the USA! /s
Burn our flag and it’s free speech .... burn some other countries flag and it’s a hate crime .....
Would you define fascist?
I might have told her to hand it out off campus, because such a message with an identifiable male (a fellow student?)could be disruptive. But hauling her off to jail?! Of course not - this is a civil matter. She could get sued, but not jailed.
There are many definitions but this one is appropriate in the context of the state controlling what you say and what you think. Some of Hillary's recent comments also seem to at least skirt the definition.
The glorification of the state and the total subordination of the individual to it. The state is defined as an organic whole into which individuals must be absorbed for their own and the state's benefit. This "total state" is absolute in its methods and unlimited by law in its control and direction of its citizens.
There’s a Pride Month? A whole, blessed month?
there is according the Citi diversity promoters, or whatever they call that department. And remember, this is NYC. Every month is pride month.
And I might take exception to the adjective.
Now, they can promote this stuff, but am I allowed to protest it?
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What's wrong with the adjective? :/
Now, they can promote this stuff, but am I allowed to protest it?
That is the question, is it not? I've read of some cases where people were fired from longstanding jobs for protesting inclusion in Gay Pride celebrations.
Well, you said "a whole blessed month," which it undoubtedly is, but it seems it's also a cursed month.
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