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Sen. Cardin: ‘Those Who Espouse Hate’ Are ‘Not Protected Under the First Amendment’
Cybercast News Service ^ | December 29, 2022 | 4:51PM EST | Micky Wootten

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.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 12/30/2022 10:43:42 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

That is you Ben!! Look in the mirror!


2 posted on 12/30/2022 10:46:16 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Olog-hai

Senator Cardin belongs in a gulag.


3 posted on 12/30/2022 10:50:51 PM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi

No offence but you could be my senator


4 posted on 12/30/2022 10:56:36 PM PST by genghis (Cathinkngact only reason go after puthan 5nu0 inbbiedComlpln)
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To: Olog-hai

Ben, you’re the hater.


5 posted on 12/30/2022 10:58:33 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: Olog-hai

Define “Hate”.

To them, disagreeing with a liberal is “Hate”.


6 posted on 12/30/2022 11:04:17 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Olog-hai

“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 ?


7 posted on 12/30/2022 11:06:56 PM PST by algore
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To: Olog-hai

And let me guess which political party decides what “hate” is.


8 posted on 12/30/2022 11:08:12 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Olog-hai

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.


9 posted on 12/30/2022 11:18:34 PM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: Olog-hai

Kardonsky the Russian Bolshevik shows his real beliefs


10 posted on 12/30/2022 11:28:19 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: lefty-lie-spy
How can anyone become a senator and not understand the First Amendment? The First Amendment is short, clear, concise. It is not 4300 pages of congress generated diarrhea.

Anyone who "yeah buts" the First Amendment is truly clueless.

11 posted on 12/30/2022 11:31:09 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Olog-hai

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!


12 posted on 12/30/2022 11:55:54 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: dfwgator
To them, disagreeing with a liberal is “Hate”.

100% correct.

As regards anti-semitism, maybe you should start looking into your own Democrat ranks before you start pointing fingers, Mr. Cardin.

13 posted on 12/30/2022 11:58:18 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Olog-hai

Another day another example of leftist projection.


14 posted on 12/30/2022 11:59:54 PM PST by SlipperySlope99
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To: Olog-hai

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!!


15 posted on 12/30/2022 11:59:56 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Olog-hai

I am so lucky I am free to say nice things and popular things.


16 posted on 12/31/2022 12:01:51 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Olog-hai

Senator Cardin aspires to be the First Amendment Nazi. No First Amendment For You!


17 posted on 12/31/2022 12:06:04 AM PST by Theophilus (It's fake and defective)
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To: Olog-hai

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.


18 posted on 12/31/2022 12:11:25 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: Olog-hai

Nope, that is not true.


19 posted on 12/31/2022 12:13:47 AM PST by Irenic
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To: Olog-hai

I hate government people that tell me what I can think and say.

;-)


20 posted on 12/31/2022 12:17:08 AM PST by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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