laconicsax
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Sat Feb-14-09 03:17 PM
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Despite these riots, I stand by what I wrote |
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The answer to the problems of free speech is always more free speech
Last week, I wrote an article defending free speech for everyone – and in response there have been riots, death threats, and the arrest of an editor who published the article.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-despite-these-riots-i-stand-by-what-i-wrote-1608059.htmlOriginal article discussed on DU: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=214&topic_id=195932&mesg_id=195932
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Sat Feb-14-09 03:20 PM
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We need to see more of this. More people standing up for real true free speech.
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Sat Feb-14-09 03:30 PM
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2. This is a remarkable article. I had no idea the the fundamentalists |
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had gained such a foothold at the UN. The more I hear about the abridgment of free speech in order not to "offend" someone's religious sensibilities the angrier I get.
Fundamentalism is a mental illness, and a cancer on the human soul.
Unless rational people (both religious and not) get together and oppose this disease, we will witness the falling of a new and more severe Dark Ages than the world has ever seen.
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Sat Feb-14-09 03:43 PM
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3. There is much truth in what you say. |
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