Monday, January 21, 2008

And as a followon to the previous,

I'll direct you to this article by Mark Stein on the attempted post-birth abortion of free speech being set up in Canada.

If you don't want to read it, I ask you to think about this little excerpt:
Consider this statement, part of the criteria by which the star chamber determines when a Section XIII crime has occurred. What does it look for as evidence?

"Messages that make use of allegedly true stories, news reports, pictures and references to apparently reputable sources in an attempt to lend an air of objectivity and truthfulness to the extremely negative characterization of the targeted group have been found to be likely to expose members of the targeted group to hatred and contempt."

Read that again slowly. Citing news reports, reputable sources, facts, statistics, documentation, quotations, references, scholarly studies, etc., has been "found" to be clear evidence of your "likely" "pre-crime.


Read it. Then the next time some brainless rat's knackerswell-meaning idiot starts talking about the necessity of 'hate-speech' laws, consider some possible way to make them understand. Or just kick them somewhere sensitive since they may have lost the ability to actually think.

1 comment:

Kevin said...

Messages that make use of allegedly true stories, news reports, pictures and references to apparently reputable sources in an attempt to lend an air of objectivity and truthfulness to the extremely negative characterization of the targeted group have been found to be likely to expose members of the targeted group to hatred and contempt.

Wow. That sounds exactly like what the MSM does to gun owners on a daily basis.