Or North Korea:
Posted on 06/12/2009 1:03:03 PM PDT by Lorianne
If yesterday's Holocaust Museum slaying of security guard and national hero Stephen Tyrone Johns is not a clarion call for banning hate speech, I don't know what is. Playwright Janet Langhart Cohen appeared on CNN yesterday right after the shooting, as she wrote a play that was supposed to have been debuted at the Holocaust Museum last night. Her play is about Emmett Till, whose lynching helped launch the Civil Rights Movement, and Ann Frank, whose diary told the story of Holocaust victims in hiding in the Netherlands during World War II.
She said something must be done about ridding the Internet and the public dialogue of hate speech. I agree. Not only have we had three hate crime murders within the last two weeks (Mr. Johns, as noted above, Dr. George Tiller a week ago last Sunday, and Pvt. William Andrew Long by an American-born Muslim convert outside a recruiting station just before that.)
Now we have this quote from Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who used to be President Obama's pastor. Hate comes from among all peoples and all religions. He said this about his lack of communication with Barack Obama since he's been elected president:
"Them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office," Wright told the Daily Press of Newport News following a Tuesday night sermon at the 95th annual Hampton University Ministers' Conference.
It's not enough to prosecute these murders as murders. They are hate-motivated crimes and each of these men had been under some sort of police surveillance prior to their actions. Isn't it time we started rounding up promoters of hate before they kill?
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Sure, lets start arresting people before they commit crimes. That’s the solution.
Or North Korea:
However, this line seems quite bizarre to me:
If yesterday's Holocaust Museum slaying of security guard and national hero Stephen Tyrone Johns
No disrespect intended to Mr. Johns, but National Hero? He was murdered, what's heroic about that? A tragic death indeed, but that's not what makes a person a "hero", it makes him a victim.
Obviously, she will be.
“Pvt. William Andrew Long by an American-born Muslim convert outside a recruiting station just before that.”
How ironic; using the death of a man who defends freedom as an excuse to kill freedom.
And of course, that one important question will probably never get asked or answered; who gets to decide what constitutes hate and by what right do they get to decide?
One incident will be all it will take, and then the “haulers” will be meeting some “organized resistance”.
Can you feel the “crackling” in the country? That’s like static electricity, looking for a discharge point.
Yep. I hate it. I don't like it. But in order for me to be who I am I have to defend him saying it.
Though at the same time I get to say Wright's an idiot race baiting racist.
The Democrats who will someday control all three branches of government, without so much as checks and balances of power. A hate crime bill already passed in the House and it's laying dormant in the Senate as we speak. Once it passes, you won't be able to so much as gather in your own home with friends to have Bible study.
Leftist enabler: Oh, you're paranoid, that can't happen here.
Patriot: You damn right it won't happen. WHEN they try it, they will be shot.
How deliciously fascist.
If they were to round up all the hate promoters, then every liberal and the fringe groups they support would be rounded up.
The American Krystalnacht will be done by deranged leftists in support of Fuhrer Obama. Like this writer.
When the government tries to control what people can say, they end up with more problems.
Pent up anger and frustration by being shuttered will only breed a more powerful menace, because you won’t have any idea where it is coming from.
The stupidity of these clowns is breathtaking.
We know Jeremiah Wright by what he says out loud. That does not mean he would kill anyone.
Sounds like "shovel ready" stimulus jobs to me.
Hmmm...the way to see to it that Jews and Communists are never “rounded up” again is to round up evil right wing conservatives...I think I understand this, actually.
TANSTAAFL
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Of course Wright can speak. We just don’t have to have a president who agrees with what he says...
But unless he was literally urging his parishioners to go out on the street and kill the first white person they see, Wright does have a right to speak.
She offers up this “idea” on a blog named after Thomas Jefferson. Shameful.
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