New Zealand Bans Manifesto

[Amarok]

Making it illegal is a very different issue, indeed,

Not really 

and I'd say it's a greater threat to a democratic society than the deaths even of a few dozen people would be

So how many people then ?

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Also, the banning of literature like this has been predicted in just about every bit of radical and racist literature.

One wonders why (sarcasm )

Timothy McVeigh was a big fan of The Turner Diaries.

He was a fan of a lot of things 

One of the things that Turner was rebelling against was the banning of literature that the state considered to be dangerous. It's pretty sad to see the predictions of hate literature coming true.

Not nearly as sad as the rise and acceptance of it's racism

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Agree to disagree.  There is NO valid reason for censorship, ever. People who are going to shoot up mosques (or churches or schools or synagogues) are going to do so irrespective of this manifesto.  What's next - censor the internet?  Pre-censor books before publication?

So you deny the effects of propaganda and deceitful idea

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 Everyone has become so fucking convinced that everyone else is an idiot, that no one trusts anyone else to read anything that they might disagree with, as if the common folk are too dumb to process information that isn't screened by the state.

History supports this 

It is quite frankly unbelievable how frightened formerly liberal democracies are becoming of free speech. Illiberal democracies are springing up everywhere, and formerly liberal democracies are doing horrible slides into illiberal values. 

Mindless blather

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'Whenever a government says "This you may not read, this you may not see, this you are forbidden to know", the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how noble the motives.' - Heinlein

Actually it's the other way around