RE: Hate Crime Legislation
January 5, 2009 at 4:01 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2009 at 4:04 pm by Kyuuketsuki.)
(January 5, 2009 at 9:13 am)Eilonnwy Wrote:(January 5, 2009 at 7:48 am)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: Not really ... aren't those things already illegal?
You mean Hate Speech? Kind of. Not completely. There is a slight distinction that the US makes concerning Hate Speech, otherwise it's protected under the first ammendment.
No ... assault and murder etc.
What I am saying is that defining when freedom of speech becomes hate speech using those as a yardstick seems pointless because those things are already illegal. IOW the person perpetrating them would already be commitment a crime.
I am, BTW, not a Yank so your first amendment means little to me personally.
The link you gave is interesting though I am unsure if there have been any successful prosecutions in the UK for the offences listed.
Kyu
