- The Council of Europe has adopted a measure that would
criminalize Internet hate speech, including hyperlinks to pages that contain
offensive content.
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- The provision, which was passed by the council's decision-making
body (the Committee of Ministers), updates the European Convention on Cybercrime.
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- Specifically, the amendment bans "any written material,
any image or any other representation of ideas or theories, which advocates,
promotes or incites hatred, discrimination or violence, against any individual
or group of individuals, based on race, colour, descent or national or
ethnic origin, as well as religion if used as pretext for any of these
factors."
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- It also obliquely refers to the Holocaust, outlawing
sites that deny, minimize, approve or justify crimes against humanity,
particularly those that occurred during World War II.
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- "The emergence of international communication networks
like the Internet provide certain persons with modern and powerful means
to support racism and xenophobia and enables them to disseminate easily
and widely expressions containing such ideas," the council's report
on the amendment states. "In order to investigate and prosecute such
persons, international cooperation is vital."
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- Many European countries have existing laws outlawing
Internet racism, which is generally protected as free speech in the United
States. The council cited a report finding that 2,500 out of 4,000 racist
sites were created in the United States.
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- Critics say that the measure may push hate groups to
set up virtual shop in the United States, pointing to a decision last year
by a U.S. judge who ruled that Yahoo did not have to block French citizens'
access to online sales of Nazi memorabilia, which are illegal in that country.
The judge determined that U.S. websites are only subject to American law.
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- "This could lead to a clash of cultures," said
Cedric Laurant, a Belgian lawyer and staff counsel with the Electronic
Privacy and Information Center. "What will happen if the French police
start asking local U.S. police to give them information about the people
running a site?"
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- European countries may decide to censor U.S. content
themselves, as Spain has done, suggested Carlos S·nchez Almeida,
a cybercrime lawyer located in Barcelona.
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- Spain recently passed legislation authorizing judges
to shut down Spanish sites and block access to U.S. Web pages that don't
comply with national laws.
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- "If European countries adopt the (anti-racism) amendment
of the European Council in their legislatures, they'll also be able to
block websites from the U.S.A., despite the First Amendment."
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- Representatives of the 44 European countries on the European
Council must decide whether to adopt or reject the measure during the next
Parliamentary Assembly session in January. Countries who support the amendment
will then need to ratify it in their national legislatures before making
it law.
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- How 'They' Will Curtail And End Free Speech
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- From Jeff Rense
11-10-2
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- This is how 'they' will deal with the freedom of inquiry
and investigation on the internet. And then in general open society.
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- The 'Council Of Europe' move marks the formal beginning-of-the-end
of key free speech rights on the net as we know them. The blocking of sites
and ISPs will become common.
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- The definition of 'hate speech' is as subjective as it
gets and these laws will be imposed selectively and specifically to suppress
dissent and open inquiry. And to sow general fear.
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- Yes, of course, there are some who deal in unequivocally
inflammatory net rhetoric but those sources are but tertiary targets for
this new weapon of dominance and politically-correct behavior. One single
WORD in a net article, essay or news story will lead to possible criminal
charges - jail and fines - against the individual responsible.
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- Nevermind, there are ISP solutions to most current excessive
net prose. And then there is always mouse-control. But these aren't nearly
enough to thwart free speech and expression...and LAWS will be passed -
and used - to crush non-PC thought and expression.
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- Similar laws will come to America. And then there will
be near TOTAL control. It is truly incredible how a handful of NWO operatives...'politicians'...have
taken a once free and independent Europe into a new Dark Age. And barely
a whimper from the suppressed, sold out and hobbled population.
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- Watch for 'hate speech' laws to be pushed in the Congress
by NWO minions and the agents of special interest groups. The person/s
introducing 'anti-hate' laws will be Constitutional assassins in sheep's
clothing. The day Congress passes such legislation will mark the death
of the First Amendment.
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- The era of free expression and individuality is just
about over. Conformity...or else... will be the way of the future. Every
detail of our lives, personal and public, will be - and are being - databased
and can - and will - be used against 'non-conformists.' Unless, of course,
you are an obedient little boy or girl and only speak and write in 'acceptable'
dynamics.
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- Here are the essential mechanics of the concept:
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- "Any written material, any image or any other representation
of ideas or theories, which advocates, promotes or incites hatred, discrimination
or violence, against any individual or group of individuals, based on race,
color, descent or national or ethnic origin, as well as religion if used
as pretext for any of these factors."
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- It isn't the CONCEPT that is the danger, it is the clear
and obvious potential of extraordinary abuse and misuse of such a law.
Think about it.
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- From Wired News, available online at:
- http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56294,00.html
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- Comment
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- From Founders' America
foundersamerica@hotmail.com
11-10-2
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- Dear Jeff,
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- From my collection of thoughts on America's steep moral
and cultural decline, "Paleoconservative Thoughts To Ponder":
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- 103) Racist speech is the first right of Political Man.
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- The very foundation of politics is racism, or gene-based
tribalism, as racism is the natural drive in all humans to associate with
those heritably most like themselves, striving in the beginning stages
of community formation to build and retain a social comfort zone for self-determination--to
build a psychological and physical comfort zone for social agreement, where
one feels comfortably at ease about one's neighbors and at-large society;
for applying protective laws and ensuring racial continuity; to survive
and pass on their culture and heritage from one generation to the next;
a continuity of one's race, society and its body politic.
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- My essay on hate-crime laws:
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- Hate Crime Laws As Orwellian Love
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- ©1994 Founders' America
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- The Op/Ed Page of the Richmond Times-Dispatch published
a column on February 11th, 1994, headlined "Hate Crimes Can Be Punished
Without Suppressing Speech," by Mr. Craig Sumberg, director of the
National Capital Region of the American Jewish Congress, which supports
passage of Hate Crimes legislation HB 889, in Virginia.
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- Webster's dictionary defines "hate" as a "strong
feeling of dislike for a person or thing." In effect, HB 889 is an
attempt to assign extra punishment for any "bad" feelings one
may hold about others, or about things which relate to others' sexual,
racial, ethnic, or religious identity.
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- Because thinking naturally evokes feelings, punishing
one for what one feels punishes one's thinking. This is the reason why
punishing "hate" -- or thought -- is an attempt to control and
suppress free speech.
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- Hate crime laws do suppress free speech.
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- If a man is given extra punishment because of his thoughts,
which may or may not have been motive for his crime, then pretrial discovery
must necessarily include finding "bad" speech to support that
extra punishment; it involves interviewing his friends and co-workers,
inspecting his library and video rental records, determining what newsletters
and magazines he likes and any organizations he belongs to, in order to
establish what he might have thought before and during his crime. It requires
Gestapo- like searches by Thought Police.
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- The eventual result of such legislation will be prosecu-
tors rifling the personal thoughts of any white suspect alleged to have
perpetrated a crime against a minority person. Moreover, to be fair, it
would necessarily demand that minority suspects be investigated to uncover
their "bad" thoughts about whites, whom they may have targeted
for assault, rape, robbery, or murder--a far more prevalent array of "hate
crimes."
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- A man may have no intention of harming another person,
but because he can't predict whether a situation might arise involving
an altercation with someone not of his sexual orientation or race or religion,
he would be imprudent to speak openly to friends and co-workers about his
politics; nor should he checkout library books or rent videos which might
give clues to his thinking; nor should he join any of the many organizations
which are sex-, race-, ethnic- or religion-based.
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- HB 889 is a thought-control bill, adding more punishment
for what one thinks and believes. What one thinks and believes may drive
one to break laws for the benefit of a perceived greater good--like men
who claim to hate abortion-clinic killings of wombed babies; hate predatory
homosexuals' Man/boy clubs; or hate certain minorities' bad influence on
civil society.
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- In all three instances the perceived "hate"
is really political thought, which moral men might act upon. Where one
man sees bigotry another sees truth. All thinking must be protected from
punishment. If thinking prompts men toward unlawful conduct, then punish
them for what they do -- not for their thinking -- no matter how distasteful
the Thought Police find their ideas to be.
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- Thinking is the fundamental impetus for speech; ergo,
"bad" thinking -- spoken or written -- must be protected.
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- If one's thoughts are linked to unlawful conduct, and
if extra punishment is meted out by the State for those thoughts, then
all thinking is at risk for control by Thought Police.
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- Their faulty reasoning aside, the Left's call for "love"
-- which they claim motivates their Hate Crimes legisla- tion -- is means
for disarming rational thought and advancing liberals' emotion-based agenda.
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- It is really tyranny.
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- Love untempered with reason is more often destructive
than constructive, as with the "love" that liberal enablers apply
in keeping America's poor dependent and chained to liberals' "help."
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- With their passage of hate-crime laws, liberals undermine
the Constitution and punish America with their Orwellian love.
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- Founders' America
P.O. Box 71024
Richmond, Va
23255
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