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November 30, 2006
Thursday depression, with a little Wiggle room
-- Check out Selwyn Duke's article over at the revamped American Thinker, on the insidious progress of the notion that "hate speech" isn't protected by the 1st Amendment. Duke starts by quoting a judge in a 1958 case who "warned that 'if the court does not stop talking about the separation of church and state, people are going to start thinking it is part of the Constitution.'" As he points out, the notion of "hate speech" is following much the same path.
-- Victor Davis Hanson on this war thing we're involved with: "...we are on dangerous ground. History gives evidence of no civilization that survived long as purely secular and without a god, that put its trust in reason alone, and believed human nature was subject to radical improvement given enough capital and learning invested in the endeavor. The failure of our elites to amplify their traditions they received, and to believe them to be not merely different but far better than the alternatives, is also a symptom of crisis in all societies of the past..." (h/t: Gadsden Flag).
-- On a lighter (and brighter) note, the Wiggles (it's a children's show) will carry on, despite the abrupt departure of Yellow Wiggle. (I haven't the slightest idea whether this show even airs in the U.S., but all the doom and gloom, civilizational upheaval, etc., suggested this story was worth mentioning.)
Posted by bill at November 30, 2006 09:41 AM
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Hate speech shouldnt be protected by the first amendment. Hate speech is being directed to a certain type of person directly like race, gender, religion, etc... People say they hate George Bush everyday and get arrested for it. that type of free speech shouldnt be prosecuted but if they said that they hated Bush because he is white, that is the type of speech that should be prosecuted.
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at December 4, 2006 03:26 AM
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