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What A Great Idea!
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RE: What A Great Idea!
(October 10, 2013 at 6:44 am)Brakeman Wrote:
(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: 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.

Why do you assume everyone has to listen to the lies and untruths? If one group can say what they like without fear of being arrested, any group should. I don't oppose the KKK holding demonstrations. Am I going to attend one? No, I don't agree with their message.

If you lived in Poland and wanted to hold a rally for atheism, there is a high chance you'd be arrested for blaspheming. Do you think that's fair?

Edit - you didn't get my point either. You appear to be comparing Sikh and Jewish traditional religious garb to Neo Nazi and KKK uniforms. That doesn't make sense.
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Messages In This Thread
What A Great Idea! - by Minimalist - October 9, 2013 at 8:27 pm
RE: What A Great Idea! - by Heir Apparent - October 9, 2013 at 8:57 pm
RE: What A Great Idea! - by Something completely different - October 9, 2013 at 10:20 pm
RE: What A Great Idea! - by Brakeman - October 9, 2013 at 10:30 pm
RE: What A Great Idea! - by Heir Apparent - October 9, 2013 at 10:39 pm
RE: What A Great Idea! - by My imaginary friend is GOD - October 9, 2013 at 10:44 pm
RE: What A Great Idea! - by max-greece - October 10, 2013 at 1:24 am
RE: What A Great Idea! - by NoraBrimstone - October 10, 2013 at 5:19 am
RE: What A Great Idea! - by Something completely different - October 10, 2013 at 5:50 am
RE: What A Great Idea! - by Brakeman - October 10, 2013 at 6:44 am
RE: What A Great Idea! - by Heir Apparent - October 10, 2013 at 2:57 pm
RE: What A Great Idea! - by Brakeman - October 10, 2013 at 5:50 pm
RE: What A Great Idea! - by Dionysius - October 10, 2013 at 4:11 pm
RE: What A Great Idea! - by Psykhronic - October 10, 2013 at 8:16 am
RE: What A Great Idea! - by Minimalist - October 10, 2013 at 3:26 pm
RE: What A Great Idea! - by Doubting Thomas - October 10, 2013 at 5:29 pm
RE: What A Great Idea! - by Heir Apparent - October 10, 2013 at 6:57 pm
RE: What A Great Idea! - by Beta Ray Bill - October 10, 2013 at 10:08 pm
RE: What A Great Idea! - by Minimalist - October 10, 2013 at 9:58 pm

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