RE: Shots fired in Dallas of mohammed cartoons.
May 5, 2015 at 12:37 am
(This post was last modified: May 5, 2015 at 12:47 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(May 4, 2015 at 5:32 pm)Hatshepsut Wrote: We do a somewhat similar thing here in the USA by banning gang members from gathering together or making gang signs or speeches in public places. Ogden, Utah has a court injunction against the Ogden Trece gang with such provisions plus a curfew. And it allows police to decide who's gang and who isn't. This of course doesn't ban an idea per se; it's the group that's targeted. Yet groups and ideas go hand in hand. The gang injunction is probably just as intrusive on civil liberties, especially as once someone's on that police gang list, it can be a long row's howing to get off it.
The thing is, gang-injunctions aren't comparable to hate-speech or Holocaust-denial laws precisely because the HS/HD laws aren't banning behavior, they're banning spoken expression.
(May 4, 2015 at 7:33 pm)IATIA Wrote: Then where is the line drawn and who draws the line? I served my country to defend (among other things) the right to free speech. Even if they are dicks. All one has to do is walk away, change the channel, turn the computer off, etc..
Exactly. I've written online on plenty of occasions that the best thanks I could get for my service would be for the other to exercise their rights vigorously, even in causes I oppose.
