Posted on 12/30/2022 10:43:42 PM PST by Olog-hai
During a hearing on anti-semitism today, Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) claimed that those who “espouse hate” are not protected under the First Amendment, and called for the federal government to be “more aggressive” in its efforts to combat hateful rhetoric.
Senator Cardin serves as the Chair of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which is also referred to as the Helsinki Commission. […]
On Dec. 13, the Helsinki Commission held a hearing entitled, “The Alarming Rise of Anti-Semitism and Its Threat to Democracy.”
During the hearing, Cardin stated, “If you espouse hate, if you espouse violence, you’re not protected under the First Amendment.”
“So I think we can be more aggressive in the way that we handle that type of use of the internet,” he added. “We know that Europe has done things, I think that we can learn from each other.” […]
Senator Cardin’s remark drew a response from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a First Amendment advocacy group. FIRE retweeted a clip of the senator’s comments with the statement, “there is no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment.”
FIRE also included a link to their website where it explains that the “First Amendment recognizes that the government cannot regulate ‘hate speech’ without inevitably silencing the dissent and dialogue that democracy requires.” …
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That is you Ben!! Look in the mirror!
Senator Cardin belongs in a gulag.
No offence but you could be my senator
Ben, you’re the hater.
Define “Hate”.
To them, disagreeing with a liberal is “Hate”.
“If you espouse hate, if you espouse violence, you’re not protected under the First Amendment.”
didn’t king Charles say something like that in the 1770s ?
And let me guess which political party decides what “hate” is.
And when people on his side say, “I hate those hateful conservatives.”, nothing will happen. This guy is a freakin’ Nazi to even think about talking like that, yet to dare to say it - they don’t care anymore; they aren’t afraid to put their full communist agenda right in our faces and abuse us.
Kardonsky the Russian Bolshevik shows his real beliefs
Anyone who "yeah buts" the First Amendment is truly clueless.
The first amendment is there to protect speech both the kind you like or do not like. The 2nd amendment is there to stop tyrants like him who would arbitrarily ban speech depending on which way the wind is blowing.
If you go to GAB https://gab.com/home you will see lots of Jewish hatred posted and that is by the founder of the site!
100% correct.
As regards anti-semitism, maybe you should start looking into your own Democrat ranks before you start pointing fingers, Mr. Cardin.
Another day another example of leftist projection.
ok .... so i love freedom and liberty, and despise socialism and communism.
does that now mean, by tbe words espoused by this democrat, that i do not have 1st amendment rights?
this democrat is going to tell a military veteran, that he has no 1st amendment rights???
i believe the democrat to have ‘tunnelvision’, ahem!!
I am so lucky I am free to say nice things and popular things.
Senator Cardin aspires to be the First Amendment Nazi. No First Amendment For You!
Mr. Lightweight squeaks again. Not even a tenth of a Man his father or great humanitarian his mother was. I lived three blocks from him but he was never part of our neighborhood. We weren’t good enough for his ego.
Nope, that is not true.
I hate government people that tell me what I can think and say.
;-)
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