I wonder what she thinks of Kristal Nacht
Hate speech laws to punish those whose speech offends others? Will the law only tolerate that speech which offends no one? That seems like a funny sort of tolerance. Why were the rioters rewarded instead of jailed?
Click here: OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110006080 Also, in the Sunday Telegraph: >>Ms Mactaggart," (the Home Office minister) "whose constituency of Slough has a large Sikh population, refused to condemn the mob and told Radio Four's Today programme on Tuesday that the play would be helped by the closure.
"I think that when people are moved by theatre to protest, in a way that is a sign of the free speech which is so much part of the British tradition. I think that it is a great thing that people care enough about a performance to protest," she said. << href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/26/nrushdie26.xml">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/26/nrushdie26.xml Are the lights twinkling out over there? In the name of free speech?
Click here: OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110006080 Also, in the Sunday Telegraph: >>Ms Mactaggart," (the Home Office minister) "whose constituency of Slough has a large Sikh population, refused to condemn the mob and told Radio Four's Today programme on Tuesday that the play would be helped by the closure.
"I think that when people are moved by theatre to protest, in a way that is a sign of the free speech which is so much part of the British tradition. I think that it is a great thing that people care enough about a performance to protest," she said. << href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/26/nrushdie26.xml">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/26/nrushdie26.xml Are the lights twinkling out over there? In the name of free speech?
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