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The other restrictions aren't aimed at any particular group, and therefore harbor at least the potential to silence Our Sort. But by their very design, hate spe

The other restrictions aren't aimed at any particular group, and therefore harbor at least the potential to silence Our Sort. But by their very design, hate speech laws only target a bunch of misfit losers who most definitely are Not Our Sort.

dmix 13y ago
And similarly anti-terrorism laws only apply to terrorists. So we shouldn't care that they can be held for 3 days without charge. http://www.therecord.com/news/canada/article/924121--ottawa-gives-police-exceptional-powers-to-probe-terror-plots http://www.therecord.com/news/canada/article/924121--ottawa-... Regarding hate speech laws in Canada: > "Although it's true that they have nailed some genuine hatemongers with it, it has nevertheless been used or threatened to be used against a wide variety of constituencies who don't bear the slightest resemblance to the kind of hatemongers that were originally envisioned: anti-American protesters, French-Canadian nationalists, a film sympathetic to South Africa's Nelson Mandela, a pro-Zionist book, a Jewish community leader, Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, and even a couple years ago, a pro-Israeli speaker was briefed about the anti-hate law by a police detective before he went in to make a speech." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Human_Rights_Commission_free_speech_controversies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Human_Rights_Commissio...
- aclevernickname 13y ago
  If I were a canadian, I would be looking through the Criminal Code of Canada to see what things _aren't_ considered an act of terrorism now. Since Harper's been in, the Canada Gazette has been full of changes. (is a canadian, has looked through the criminal code, knows what is or isn't terrorism)
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- Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
  Rightly or wrongly, those who employ capitalized phrases such as "Our Sort" and "Not Our Sort" often fancy themselves ironists.

dmix 13y ago

And similarly anti-terrorism laws only apply to terrorists. So we shouldn't care that they can be held for 3 days without charge. http://www.therecord.com/news/canada/article/924121--ottawa-gives-police-exceptional-powers-to-probe-terror-plots http://www.therecord.com/news/canada/article/924121--ottawa-... Regarding hate speech laws in Canada: > "Although it's true that they have nailed some genuine hatemongers with it, it has nevertheless been used or threatened to be used against a wide variety of constituencies who don't bear the slightest resemblance to the kind of hatemongers that were originally envisioned: anti-American protesters, French-Canadian nationalists, a film sympathetic to South Africa's Nelson Mandela, a pro-Zionist book, a Jewish community leader, Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, and even a couple years ago, a pro-Israeli speaker was briefed about the anti-hate law by a police detective before he went in to make a speech." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Human_Rights_Commission_free_speech_controversies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Human_Rights_Commissio...

aclevernickname 13y ago
If I were a canadian, I would be looking through the Criminal Code of Canada to see what things _aren't_ considered an act of terrorism now. Since Harper's been in, the Canada Gazette has been full of changes. (is a canadian, has looked through the criminal code, knows what is or isn't terrorism)
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Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Rightly or wrongly, those who employ capitalized phrases such as "Our Sort" and "Not Our Sort" often fancy themselves ironists.