Sorry, I forgot. Liberals are not reasonable.
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“Media Ignore That Gagging Sound from Canada
townhall.com ^ | June 11, 2008 | By Robert Knight
Posted on June 11, 2008 6:06:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Still think we’ll rate in the middle of the liberal “most free speech allowed” nations?
I bet we will. :D
Still think we’ll rate in the middle of the liberal “most free speech allowed” nations?
I bet we will. :D
>>>Even if sympathetic to idea of Canada’s “hate speech” laws . . .
Can someone tell me who in their right mind would support these insane “hate speech” laws.
Let me just say, for the record, “Canada” - “France” - other gutless, mindless, nations of your ilk . . .
I HATE YOU!!!
(Now, please prosecute me...)
It stems from a tired, failed, simplistic but still powerful political model of a society consisting of one privileged class and a number of oppressed ones. From the privileged class rights must be seized; to the oppressed ones extra rights must be granted, all in the name of a fictive social justice that is nothing more than an excuse to tear a society apart class by class. There is nothing subtle about this - the people undertaking this effort are the knowing enemies of liberty and they know perfectly well what they are doing.
The irony of using laws against so-called hate speech to submit to and appease the adherents of the most thoroughly hatful and violent ideology on the planet completely escapes these people.
Can I say that in Canada?
We really need to stop calling these types liberals. They are actually fascists and totalitarians bent on enslaving us. Liberal is much too kind a word.
Canadia is such a considerate country. The gubmint does your thinking for you.
Mark Steyn: “Western governments are becoming increasingly comfortable with the regulation of opinion. The First Amendment really does distinguish the U.S., not just from Canada but from the rest of the Western world.”
“International Herald Tribune: “In Canada, the right to freedom of expression is not absolute, nor should it be”
Democracy in the U.S. is about individual freedom. Our idea freedom of speech are taken to mean freedom of expression of ideas and opinions, and not conspiracy to take action to commit a criminal act, like for example, lynching or planting a bomb, or inciting a riot against someone whose you don’t like.
European social democracies are mostly about “fairness”. “Fairness” is a subjective term. When subjectivity governs you no longer have rule of law, and the government can do anything it wants to you. It’s no accident that European ideas of “liberty equality and fraternity” led to communism and fascism.
For example “enlightened” Germany, had free health care ever since Bismark put the place together. Nevertheless, it was perfectly clear to Hitler that since the Jews had money and power far out of proportion to their numbers, it was only “fair” to recognize that this presented a “problem”, and that this “Jewish Problem” required a “solution”.
Contrast this with the fact that in the U.S., Jews ( or South Asian Indians, or Greeks) have had every right to make more money than the rest of us. What about social harmony? As Milton Friedman noted, people that hate one another will cooperate to make money.
When Obama is President, all that will change. It will be a crime to defend Biblical scripture.
This board will be banned within 5 years.
If you think I am joking, you are not paying attention.
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“”It is not clear to me that the Europeans are mistaken,” Jeremy Waldron, a legal philosopher, wrote in The New York Review of Books last month, “when they say that a liberal democracy must take affirmative responsibility for protecting the atmosphere of mutual respect against certain forms of vicious attack.””
First of all, what the hay is a “legal philosopher”? Is that someone who went to law school but was too stupid to pass the bar exam?
Second, he shows his ignorance by saying that the United States is a “liberal democracy.” We aren’t liberal, yet, and we are not a democracy, we are a Representative Republic. When will these supposed “enlightened” individuals actually exhibit some intelligence?