canadasyouth said:
this video is has bugged me to an un believe able extent... http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=pKzPOUyt_AA&watch_response
"whats the point of muslims"
im sorry but does this not defy y we are there? are we not there to help these people? is this a war of extermination! NO! its a war of humanity if anything!... This man wants to join the british armed forces!? what?! Im sorry but i needed to let the people who actually have to fight this war know about this moron?... plz tell me, do u agree with me (humanity) or this guy (HATE)?
thanks,
an angered 14 year old...
The very core of the
liberty and soul of
democracy is ‘freedom of thought and expression.’ The very
conservative alternative is
this which, left unchecked, leads – DIRECTLY – to
this which, interestingly enough, the folks at
YouTube categorized as being “related” to the
“What’s the point ...” link you posted.
There is no doubt that the ‘creator’ of the
”What’s the point ...” video is promoting something – maybe, indeed probably
hate. I don’t like it, but
I believe, firmly, that person
must have a
right (limited only by a proper prohibition against inciting violence) to say mean spirited, hurtful, even hateful things.
In our zeal to ‘protect’ minorities from plugs and thugs like
him or
him or even
these folks, we have eroded our most basic freedoms –
rights for which many fought and died over
many centuries. Liberty and freedom are not modern constructs, we can trace the halting, often violent path to modern liberal democracy across continents and millennia.
I obviously disagree with the ‘reasoning’ in
Section 319 (2) of the Criminal Code;
I think it imposes
unreasonable limits on ‘freedom of speech.’
I believe, and the CC agrees, we are allowed to
hate;
I believe, and again the CC agrees, we are allowed to express our hatred, even against an identifiable group, like Christians or Asians; further,
I BELIEVE we must be allowed to express our views, however odious and wrong-headed, in public, so long as we stop short of advocating or promoting violence.
The Criminal Code of Canada, successive Canadian parliaments and a substantial majority of Canadians, themselves, are wrong: propagating, even
promoting hate must not be a crime because it is an unreasonable limitation on one of our ancient and quite fundamental rights – the one that lies as the very bedrock upon all of modern liberal democracy rests.
Promoting violence, on the other hand, is, as it ought to be, a crime. Even dumb people – and the people who
hate based on race, colour or creed are, without fail, 100%
stupid – can make that distinction.
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Sorry for all the colour but I think it's important to tell you what I
think or
believe as opposed to what is either demonstrably true or which I can, if challenged, prove. Equally, I have highlighted
hate because while it is, broadly, a useless, even harmful
emotion we have turned it into a crime. What's next: anger, despair, love?