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| | Hate speech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In the United States, government is broadly forbidden by the First Amendment of the Constitution from restricting speech. | | | In addition to legal prohibition in many jurisdictions, prohibition of the use of hate speech has been written into the bylaws of some governmental and non-governmental institutions such as public universities, trade unions and other organizations (see below), though the use of speech codes in public universities in the United States is blatantly illegal. | | | Many speakers have opposed such speech codes, claiming they constitute a new orthodoxy of political correctness that represents an erosion of the American commitment to freedom of speech, and-- when implemented in government-funded institutions-- the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech
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| | Censoring Hate Speech in Cyberspace |
| | Brandenburg ruled that the constitutional freedoms of speech and press prevent states from prohibiting advocacy for the use of force or the violation of laws except in instances when such advocacy is initiated to create lawless action and such action is likely to occur. | | | Anti-harassment laws have been held to be valid regulators of hate speech because these laws direct their efforts not at the content of the speech but instead their intent and effect. | | | On the other hand, speech that is not protected by the First Amendment may be regulated in a limited number of situations in which content discrimination occurs for the same reason that a specific class of speech is not protected. |
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http://www.jolt.unc.edu/vol3/Burch.htm
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| | Free Speech: Campus Hate Speech Codes |
| | From defining what specifically constitutes "hate speech" to choosing the manner in which policies are enforced, codes clearly cause or invite more trouble than they are worth. | | | Court rulings have prohibited public (state-run) colleges and universities from enacting codes that restrict the constitutional right to free speech based on content. | | | When civil liberties are pitted against the right to freedom of speech, which does justice favor? |
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http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v5n2/codes.html
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| | Regulation of Hate Speech |
| | The Court reasoned that the statute did not violate the First Amendment because it was aimed primarily at regulating conduct, not speech. | | | The Court, in an an opinion by Justice Scalia, reversed R. V.'s conviction on the ground that the ordinance unconstitutionally criminalized some hurtful expression (specifically that aimed at racial and religious minorites) and not other hurtful expression (that aimed at other unprotected groups) based on the political preferences of legislators. | | | The Court distinguished the sort of character assassination practiced by Hustler from the face-to-face insult threatening an immediate breach of the peace that was in issue in Chaplinsky. |
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http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/hatespeech.htm
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| | Hate-speech law in Sweden protects persons of all sexual orientations |
| | He sent a note to the Riksdag stated that a pastor delivering a sermon in church who stated that homosexual behavior was sinful "might" be considered as having committed a criminal act under this bill. | | | Pastor Tuve Skånberg of the Swedish Covenant Church, who is also a member of the Christian Democratic party in the Riksdag, said that the: "vague wording of the bill leaves the courts without guidance as to the intention of the legislator. | | | Even though he was using strong language, and he, in a sense, crossed the line in accordance with the Swedish Criminal Provision (criminal law), the court decided the Swedish Criminal Provision could not be applied because that would be violating the European Convention on Human Rights..... |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_hat8.htm
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| | Bad Laws Are a Two-Edged Sword |
| | The Thobani case underscores how fragile free speech can be when the government acts like a parent, defining bad words and what may or may not be said. | | | Though the law also states that no one can be convicted “if the statements were relevant to any subject of public interest, the discussion of which was for the public benefit, and if on reasonable grounds he believed them to be true,” there is little clarity on what that means. | | | The ultimate irony of this case is that those who designed the hate-speech laws did not foresee them limiting the leftist, anti-American speech which is a kind of national sport in Canada. |
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http://www.pacificresearch.org/pub/con/2001/con_01-10-24.html
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| | Hate Speech |
| | That is, if you do not hate the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and general licentiousness---er, freedom---guaranteed in this country. | | | Loitering, creating a public nuisance, inciting to riot, disturbing the peace (now there's a law I'd like to see enforced!) Or at least their internet/TV station/blimp plug should be pulled or sign torn up. | | | Let me remind you of a bill pending in Indiana that says if you have a child out of wedlock that you will be criminally prosecuted---apparently for hating marriage. |
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http://www.rense.com/general68/hate.htm
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| | American Civil Liberties Union : Hate Speech on Campus |
| | And in another landmark ruling, in 1989, the Court upheld the right of an individual to burn the American flag in public as a symbolic expression of disagreement with government policies. | | | But the First Amendment doesn't protect the use of nonverbal symbols to encroach upon, or desecrate, private property, such as burning a cross on someone's lawn or spray-painting a swastika on the wall of a synagogue or dorm. | | | The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects speech no matter how offensive its content. |
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http://www.aclu.org/StudentsRights/StudentsRights.cfm?ID=9004&c=159
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| | NPN Email Alert |
| | States are not enforcing state and federal hate laws as zealously as the federal government wishes. | | | The sovereign rights of states to enforce the law as they see fit has posed a huge barrier to establishment of a federal “anti-hate” bureaucracy. | | | A huge number of legal precedents will continuously widen hate law jurisdiction. |
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http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/hatebillmeansfuneral.html
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| | Hate Crime Laws: Criminalizing Free Speech |
| | It means that there will be a broad overarching definition of what kind of speech is against the law according to which federally protected groups become offended by the opinion of someone else. | | | Furthermore, the bill is in direct violation of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, which prohibits government from favoring any particular group. | | | Firstly, the bill is so dangerous because as ever it hands over more power to the federal government and effectively brings local law enforcement agencies under it's control. |
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http://infowars.net/articles/october2005/311005hatebill.htm
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| | WorldNetDaily: 'Hate-crimes' bill to muzzle Christians? |
| | As WorldNetDaily reported, a new law was passed in Canada that adds sexual orientation as a protected category in the nation& genocide and hate-crimes legislation, which carries a penalty of up to five years in prison. | | | The bill imposes special fines for those who commit a "hate crime" against a protected class and provides federal assistance to those prosecuting such crimes. | | | In Pennsyvlania, pastors are concerned they could be targeted under that state's new hate-crimes law, which added "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" as motives that trigger heavier penalties for the crime of "harassment." |
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40774
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| | P.O.V. - The Fire Next Time . For Educators PBS |
| | It is a key case in determining what speech rights students have and what kinds of expression schools have a right to curtail. | | | Encourage students to explore any disagreements over whether a specific expression should be protected as political speech or prosecuted as prohibited speech. | | | New Hampshire (1942): "Allowing the broadest scope to the language and purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment, it is well understood that the right of free speech is not absolute at all times and under all circumstances. |
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http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2005/thefirenexttime/for.html
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| | PCWorld.com - Internet Hate-Speech Ban Called 'Chilling' |
| | The Justice Department has indicated it will not support the broader restrictions because of concern that it is incompatible with First Amendment rights to free speech. | | | If European countries find unacceptable material on an American-based Web site, they cannot expect American courts to block access to the material because it would be protected here by the First Amendment, says Paula Bruening, staff counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology. | | | He says the United States would have to cooperate in such a case. |
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http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,107499,00.asp
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| | Hate Speech Quandary - Christianity Today Magazine |
| | Janet Epp Buckingham, director of law and public policy for the EFC, told CT, "Christians have seen their rights to dissent restricted by case after case in the courts." In a recent case brought under the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code, the EFC said, the court ruled that certain Bible verses were used to incite hatred. | | | Mark Morrison-Reed of the CUC said in a statement, "The Charter of Rights and the Criminal Code already protect freedom of religious expression." According to Amnesty International Canada, "a conviction will result in only the clearest cases and most egregious circumstances. | | | Christian critics argue that the law does not define either hatred or sexual orientation, making the legal boundaries unclear. |
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/007/1.18.html
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| | Issues & Views: Speech codes in Canada |
| | Although the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms put free speech and a free press into the bedrock of Canadian law, neither the public nor Canada's courts views these rights as absolutely as Americans have come to view the First Amendment. | | | The Canadian Supreme court has ruled in a series of cases that the government may limit free speech in the name of other worthwhile goals, such as ending discrimination, ensuring social harmony or promoting equality of the sexes. | | | Although the bureaucrats who run Canada still pay lip service to such rights as freedom of speech, there are a raft of topics that are off-limits to public discussion. |
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http://www.issues-views.com/index.php/sect/24000/article/24000
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| | ConspiracyPenPal Newsletter |
| | Hate speech laws focus upon the effect one's comments have, regardless of one's intent. | | | Already, the imprisonments have begun, even in America, albeit by twisting and subverting other laws. | | | Hate speech laws in action, ladies and gentlemen. |
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http://www.conspiracypenpal.com/columns/hate.htm
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| | Homophobic hate speech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In the United States, almost all forms of hate speech are legal under the Constitution, unless used to directly incite a specific act of violence, or a direct threat of violence. | | | Some might think of laws against such public speech as protecting homosexuals from abuse and unwarranted hostility, whereas others often think of such laws and regulations against "thoughtcrime", and otherwise restricting/interfering with free speech. | | | This speech may also refer to specific sexual acts that the speaker associates with homosexuals (e.g., fudgepacker or "butt pirate", "ass bandit", "Cock gobbler", and "pillow biter" which can refer to anal sex). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophobic_hate_speech
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| | Criminalizing Christianity: Sweden's Hate Speech Law |
| | As the Riksdag, Sweden's parliament, debated the legislation, the nation's chancellor of justice released a public note stating that a church sermon characterizing homosexual behaviors as sinful "might" be considered a criminal offense. | | | The issue of homosexuality has also become a test case for American civil liberties. | | | I would hope that our courts will defend the First Amendment in the face of leftist efforts to criminalize free speech here in the US. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1185545/posts
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| | Amazon.com: Hate Speech, Sex Speech, Free Speech: Books: Nicholas Wolfson |
| | The traditional, liberal, civil rights position on free speech issues is under powerful assault in the academy. | | | by Nicholas Wolfson "The traditional, liberal, civil rights position on free speech issues is under powerful assault in the academy..." (more) | | | They have called for changes in Supreme Court doctrine in defining the First Amendment and have argued that the traditional view of free speech actually creates and perpetuates a society in which the weak--women, minorities, the poor--have no voice. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0275957705?v=glance
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| | Google Axes Hate News |
| | But in 2001, a U.S. court ruled that the French could not interfere with First Amendment protection of speech. | | | In 2000, French organizations tried to get Yahoo to bar access by French citizens to Nazi-themed content and items for sale. | | | While some might criticize Google for banning National Vanguard even though that publication's writings are protected speech under the First Amendment, Kaplar said, "All news organizations tailor their product to their audiences to one degree or another. |
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http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3492361
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| | Bibliography on Hate Speech |
| | Hate Speech On Campus: Cases, Case Studies, and Commentary. | | | The following works may be of value to you when you are working out your own position on the issues: | | | "Policy Statement: Free Speech and Bias on College Campuses." The statement was adopted in 1990. |
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http://users.telerama.com/~jdehullu/speech/spbiog.htm
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| | freedomforum.org: Universities struggle with free speech, hate speech |
| | University of Oregon can't use its contract to dictate program content without risk of violating the First Amendment, says administrator. | | | Many schools will punish students or groups for certain speech, using anti-harassment policies or federal laws stating that students are entitled to a hostility-free learning environment. | | | Harvard grapples with race, law and free speech |
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http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=16143
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| | The Mahablog » Patriotism v. Hate Speech |
| | The First Amendment protects against GOVERMENT intrusion on speech. | | | Evil doesn’t require hate or malice; it only requires indifference. | | | Evil doesn’t require hate or malice; it only requires indifference.) |
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http://www.mahablog.com/2006/02/21/patriotism-v-hate-speech
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| | Wired News: Europeans Outlaw Net Hate Speech |
| | Many European countries have existing laws outlawing Internet racism, which is generally protected as free speech in the United States. | | | The provision, which was passed by the council's decision-making body (the Committee of Ministers), updates the European Convention on Cybercrime. | | | The council cited a report finding that 2,500 out of 4,000 racist sites were created in the United States. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56294,00.html
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| | Crosswalk.com - University Restricts Students Over 'Hate' Speech |
| | Even if school administrators allow a speaker or event on the campus, officials reserve the right to issue disclaimers, require a question-and-answer period immediately following the event, create programming to counter the ideas expressed or provide another lecture with opposing views. | | | Conservative students at the university are also concerned that new rules passed by the school's board of trustees further restrict their right to free speech. | | | Lindsay told CNSNews.com that the change was necessary for the flyer to conform with the university's posting policy, which prohibits "hate speech." |
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http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1223527.html
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| | EFF "Censorship - `Hate-speech` & Discrimination" Archive |
| | the Association des Utilisateurs d'Internet (French Internet Users' Association) stronly criticizes UEJF (French Union of Jewish Students) misinformed legal action that attempts to hold ISP system operators liable for users' "hate speech". | | | EFF's paper makes it clear to NTIA that BBSs and other online media are protected by the 1st Amendment, and that focusing on online incidence of hate speech is wide of the mark when one is trying to reduce hate crimes. | | | Detailed EFF position paper, sent as an open letter to NTIA, in response to an NTIA "Request for Comments" on a government study of "hate crimes" and the online world. |
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http://www.eff.org/Censorship/Hate-speech_discrimination
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| | Swede's Sermon on Gays: Bigotry or Free Speech? (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Green has also found a following in the United States. | | | U.S. law regulates what can be said about individuals, but it generally protects speech directed against groups, however harsh, allowing Ku Klux Klan leaders and neo-Nazis, for example, to state their ideologies publicly. | | | Nonetheless, Green's case has triggered debate about the breadth of the Swedish law. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45538-2005Jan28.html
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| | HateCrime.org Home Page |
| | - The truth about Texas' bad hate crime law. | | | - Bush opposed hate crime law (Debate video) | | | - Find out if they support the hate crimes bill: |
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http://www.hatecrime.org
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| | American Civil Liberty Union's Statement on Hate Speech | | | Statement on Speech Codes -- by the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association | | | A Model Campus Speech Code -- by the American Communication Association |
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http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/Brent/190/hatelinks.html
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| | Religious Right Hate Speech |
| | Join our free list to get the latest information on a variety of gay civil rights issues, click below: | | | the attack on Matt, condemn hate speech that demeans gay men and lesbians and helps to create a culture of violence against them (and give examples of such speech from this Web site), and demand the passage of state and federal hate crimes laws that include sexual orientation. | | | Writers should include their name, address and telephone number for verification purposes. |
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http://www.hatecrime.org/subpages/hatespeech/hate.html
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| | Hate Speech |
| | In recent years, the Supreme Court has held in RAV v. | | | Also, a federal court recognized the right of the American Nazi Party to march through a Jewish suburb of Skokie, Illinois. | | | Nadine Strossen, president of the ACLU, replies that laws against speech are always used to ban unpopular minority speech rather than well-settled majority vices or prejudices. |
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http://www.spectacle.org/freespch/musm/hate.html
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| | Hate Speech |
| | In a series of cases from the 1930s to the present, the Supreme Court gradually broadened the range of speech protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. | | | Read background on the legal history of free speech and hate speech. | | | Developing a reasoned view on the ethics of hate speech requires carefully considering a network of concepts, issues, and arguments. |
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http://users.telerama.com/~jdehullu/speech/sptop.htm
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| | Spinsanity - "Political hate speech": A case study in the use of language as a political weapon |
| | The term also has a legalistic tinge since "hate speech" is banned on some college and university campuses and laws against "hate crimes" increase criminal penalties for certain crimes judged to be motivated by bias or hatred. | | | In this way, "political hate speech" and other bits of political jargon are used to trigger an emotional reaction without making an argument as to why the term applies to a specific case. | | | A case study in the use of language as a political weapon |
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http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20040126.html
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| | Spinsanity - The Republican assault on "political hate speech" |
| | The use of the term "political hate speech" against Democrats thereby imparts an implicit, largely non-rational accusation of hypocrisy, even though no evidence is provided that the candidates in question support prohibitions on hate speech. | | | In this case, the phrase associates criticism of the president with "hate speech," which generally refers to speech that attacks others on the basis of their race, religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation. | | | Gillespie's memo to RNC members and party officials, as quoted by ABC's newsletter The Note, instructs Republicans to "Highlight the party of political hate speech... |
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http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20031113.html
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| | FIRE - Victory: Gonzaga Revokes ‘Hate Speech’ Punishment |
| | Instead of punishing the censors, however, Gonzaga's administration forced the College Republicans to change the wording of the flier to make it clearer that the words were part of a book title. | | | FIRE is a nonprofit educational foundation that unites civil rights and civil liberties leaders, scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals from across the political and ideological spectrum on behalf of individual rights, due process, freedom of expression, academic freedom, and rights of conscience on our campuses of higher education. | | | In response to a letter from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), President Robert J. Spitzer agreed to rescind punishment of the Gonzaga College Republicans. |
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http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/17.html
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| | WorldNetDaily: 'Bible as hate speech' signed into law |
| | The House of Commons passed the bill in September, 141-110. | | | Some members of Parliament have called it a "dangerous" law that muzzles free speech, including Liberal Party member John McKay, who dubbed it a "chill bill." | | | The bill's sponsor, openly homosexual MP Svend Robinson, has insisted it protects religious expression, but opponents, such as the Canada Family Action Coalition, note recent court cases in which judges have favored homosexual rights when they clash with the rights of religious believers. |
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38268
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| | Swedish Pastor Sentenced for 'Hate Speech' |
| | But because of what he preached, Pastor Green has been sentenced to a month in jail under a 'hate speech' law. | | | The hate speech law used to convict Green was first intended to protect Jews and other ethnic minorities from Nazi sympathizers. | | | But the Ake Green case is becoming an embarrassment for a nation which prides itself on its tolerance. |
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http://www.cbn.com/CBNNews/CWN/091004sweden.asp
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| | Townhall.com :: Columns :: Hate speech by Gary Aldrich - Dec 3, 2003 |
| | But I cannot hate the persons of Hillary or Bill Clinton. | | | Having studied the Clintons up-close and personal, I have long since concluded that their politics are not the ideals of Liberals, nor are they the dreams of the naive. | | | I never hated these people, because they only represent human failure, which I do hate. |
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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/garyaldrich/ga20031203.shtml
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| | Annual reports should be prepared on the "State of Hate on the Internet" setting forth trends and describing where there has been progress in fighting such hate. | | | Studies on the ways in which vulnerable people, especially children, become exposed to hate sites and content, and the ways in which such content affects that audience. | | | An examination of the link between hate speech and hate crimes. |
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http://adl.org/PresRele/Internet_75/4790_75.htm
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| | 'Hate Speech' On The Net |
| | It is not "hate" to point out facts the American people should be paying attention to, especially on the threshold to what might turn out to be a world war started by deception. | | | These phrases, "hate speech" and "anti-Semite", are well-worn devices to shut up a critic of Israel without having to answer the criticisms. | | | I am firmly opposed to and have openly defied efforts by our own government to withhold from the people information the people need to make good decisions with. |
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| | Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome |
| | David Bernstein, professor at George Mason University School of Law, addressed the topic of how antidiscrimination laws are creating problems for free speech in his recent book, "You Can't Say That!" Fear of litigation, he observed, "is having a profound chilling effect on the exercise of civil liberties in workplaces, universities, membership organizations, and churches." | | | The law center had filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Betsy Hansen as a result of a dispute over the 2002 Diversity Week program held at the Ann Arbor Pioneer High School. | | | Bernstein related how one U.S. Catholic university was beaten down by legal actions into giving full recognition to student homosexual groups. |
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| | Text of speech by Sen. Zell Miller -- Newsday.com |
| | Text of speech by Democratic Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia as prepared for delivery Wednesday at the Republican National Convention: | | | President Roosevelt, in his speech that summer, told America "all private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger." | | | Our country was not yet at war, but even we children knew that there were some crazy men across the ocean who would kill us if they could. |
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http://newsday.com/news/politics/rnc/nyc-zellspeech,0,2788444.story?...
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| | American Renaissance |
| | Kamau Kambon, former visiting professor of Africana Studies at NC State University, made the following remarks at “Black Media Forum on the Image of Black Americans in Mainstream Media.” This was a program presented on October 14th at Howard University and broadcast by C-SPAN. | | | I never think of myself as belonging to the ‘white race.&; Those who do, in my experience, are invariably second-raters, seeking solace for their own failures. | | | Let’s make some revolutionary movies where we kill white people in the movie. |
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http://www.amren.com/antiwht.htm
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| | SPLCenter.org: Hatewatch |
| | The Reverend Gene Lankford called the vandalism of La Casa Del Pueblo an act of racial hate. | | | » Read our complete list of hate incidents | | | Klansmen at the anti-immigration demonstration organized by the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross and yelled, "Let's get rid of the Mexicans!" |
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