It is the right-wing version of a boogieman! They have a number of boogiemen, another favorite is that the Democrats are going to take away your guns, I think they have been saying that since Reagan.
What is a bias crime*, most people have no idea… so when the right throws out these off-the-wall warnings they believe them.
What is a bias crime*, most people have no idea… so when the right throws out these off-the-wall warnings they believe them.
Which of these are a bias crime?
Is one of these a bias crime? Are they all bias crimes?
Hun? What is he talking about? Who is banning books, tell people what they can say in schools, banning parades? Non-discrimination laws don’t ban any of these!
Hold it right there! They released classified documents! They were not convicted of violating the First Amendment. The publishing of the Pentagon Papers was free speech… the stealing of them was not.
Wait a minute Trump has proposed the same thing! He said that he would prosecute reporters! Reuters reported that,
Me thinks that Mr. Turley got his blinders on and is only seeing one side. He goes on to write,
Yes, we are. And I think that it is a candidate who cannot tell the truth, has said he will go after people in the media that he didn’t like, the candidate who said he would be a dictator on day one of his taking office.
Back to that quiz…
The person who got arrested receive restitution from the college and the others were never arrested.
Yes, there is a thin line between a bias crime and free speech, they courts have said that there must be intimidation, threats of violence or actual violence for it to be a bias crime. But the Republicans lies to scare you into believing that it is true.
A) A bunch of drunks in a college parking lot using the “N” word at a bunch of Blacks.
B) A holier than thou lady holding a Bible say we are all sinners and going to hell at a funeral for a gay man.
C) A parade of White guys with torches.
B) A holier than thou lady holding a Bible say we are all sinners and going to hell at a funeral for a gay man.
C) A parade of White guys with torches.
Is one of these a bias crime? Are they all bias crimes?
Well I never read his book but if it is like this it is full of that brown stuff.Opinion: Vance is right. Harris and Walz are a threat to Americans' free speech.
We are living through the most dangerous anti-free speech movement in American history.
USA Today
By Jonathan Turley
October 3, 2024In the vice presidential debate Tuesday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pulled the fire alarm.
His opponent, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, cited the massive system of censorship supported by Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate.
Walz proceeded to quote the line from a 1919 case in which Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said you do not have the right to falsely yell fire in a crowded theater.
It is the favorite mantra of the anti-free speech movement. It also is fundamentally wrong.
In my book "The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I discuss the justice's line from his opinion in Schenck v. United States. Holmes wrote, “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.”
For example, when I testified last year before Congress against a censorship system that has been described by one federal court as "similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth,’” Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., interjected with the fire-in-a-theater question to say such censorship is needed and constitutional. In other words, the internet is now a huge crowded theater and those with opposing views are shouting fire.
Goldman and Walz both cited a case in which socialists Charles Schenck and Elizabeth Baer were arrested and convicted of violating the Espionage Act of 1917. Their "crime" was to pass out flyers in opposition to the military draft during World War I.
As I have said, the Biden-Harris administration has proved to be the most anti-free speech administration in two centuries. You have to go back to John Adams' administration to find the equal of this administration.
Harris has been an outspoken champion of censorship in an administration that supports targeting disinformation, misinformation and "malinformation." That last category was defined by the Biden administration as information “based on fact, but used out of context to mislead, harm, or manipulate.”
Former U.S. President Donald Trump, who is the Republican presidential candidate, said on Friday he will seek the prosecution of Google(GOOGL.O), opens new tab if he wins the Nov. 5 election, claiming that the company only displays "bad stories" about him.
We are living through the most dangerous anti-free speech movement in American history. We have never before faced the current alliance of government, corporate, academic and media forces aligned against free speech. A Harris-Walz administration with a supportive Congress could make this right entirely dispensable.
Back to that quiz…
A) Was a case where a group on the campus of UConn shouting racial slurs, the charges were dropped and the university settled out of court for false arrest.
B) Was at the funeral of Matthew Shepard.
C) Was at Charlottesville when the Proud Boys marched.
B) Was at the funeral of Matthew Shepard.
C) Was at Charlottesville when the Proud Boys marched.
The person who got arrested receive restitution from the college and the others were never arrested.
Yes, there is a thin line between a bias crime and free speech, they courts have said that there must be intimidation, threats of violence or actual violence for it to be a bias crime. But the Republicans lies to scare you into believing that it is true.
*Why do I say “bias crime” instead of a “hate crime” well simple put hate is not a crime, it is only when they take action or make threats is it a crime.
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