In general, how is the promotion of mass murder a free speech concern?
I realize the Muslims and Left get away with it, but it shouldn’t be tolerated.
“In general, how is the promotion of mass murder a free speech concern?”
Define “promotion.” If I, sitting here in my living room, begin to rant about how some group or another should be taken out and shot, am I “promoting” mass murder? Who is going to hear and act upon my words? Is there any reasonable expectation that mass murder will result from my ranting?
Do we really want a country in which you can’t go down to your corner bar, do a few 12-ounce curls, and blow off some steam without the thought police busting in and dragging us off to jail?
We know quite well that the left intends to use such laws to eliminate all dissent. Already many Americans are hesitant to express their political opinions in public. I remember a time when it seemed unlikely that the lunatic fringe would be able to impose the notions of hate crime and hate speech upon a free country, but derned if they didn’t do it somehow.
These concepts are a bleeding wound upon our body politic, and we need to eliminate them.
“I realize the Muslims and Left get away with it, but it shouldn’t be tolerated.”
I don’t see how we would profit from preventing muzzies and leftwads from expressing their beliefs. We need to prevent them from *acting* on their beliefs, but freedom of conscience is one of the founding principles of this Great Nation.