RE: What A Great Idea!
October 10, 2013 at 6:44 am
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2013 at 7:00 am by Brakeman.)
(October 10, 2013 at 5:50 am)The Germans are coming Wrote: Only if people were ducks.
What a canard!
{ [for the non-Europeans] Canard in English = misleading story, Canard in French = Duck}
(October 9, 2013 at 10:39 pm)Heir Apparent Wrote:(October 9, 2013 at 10:30 pm)Brakeman Wrote: So should Nazi armbands be banned? KKK Headdresses? The real crimes and violent polarization instigated by these fraudulent superstitions justify banning.
Well I don't know about anywhere else in the world, but in the States both the Neo-Nazi's and the KKK are protected under the 1st Amendment, as are the Westboro "Baptist" Church.
I'm not sure I see the correlation between generally harmless traditional religious garb and extremist groups either.
Why should the first amendment protect the right to lie and mislead the public? Simply forcing them to be factual and non-fraudulent would dry up their support. I don't see the issue. Simply put, you should have the right to be stupid all you want, and tell people about your stupidity all you want too, but you are refrained from making known un-factual statements.
Nazi extremist - Got mit uns, very strong (at least internal) Christian support.
KKK - very strong christian support
Al-Qaeda - very strong muslim support
That's a pretty good correlation to me. If any of the groups had been irreligious, they would be unknown to us, without support.
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