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  • StickyGreen
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    • Oct 2003
    • 13076

    #1

    Freedom Of Speech Disappearing Completely In Britain -- Illegal To Insult Blair

    Many of us are aware of the hate speech laws in the UK, but were you aware it is now illegal to speak out against Tony Blair?

    Police arrested a twenty-year-old woman at the Midlands Game Fair over the weekend of September 17th. What was her offence? A T-shirt that said, "Bullocks to Blair".

    quote: A tearful Denis was driven to a mobile police unit. ?I asked the officers how they could arrest someone for wearing a T-shirt and they told me it was because it would offend a 70-80-year-old woman,? she said.

    http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/compe...392/68779.html

    Behold the dangers of hate speech laws. If it could offend someone, it's illegal can, essentially, negate any opinion to be expressed about anything.

    "I like chocolate."
    "I'm allergic to chocolate, an I am offended that you would make such a comment!"

    Remember, the hate speech laws are based on how any one individual takes it. The most innocuous statement could be twisted around in someone's head to mean something completely different, and that would be considered hate speech. Such as the word, niggardly.
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  • fuzzylogic
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    • Jun 2004
    • 4796

    #2
    fuck you and your president

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    • wallst
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      • Aug 2004
      • 1621

      #3
      Originally posted by fuzzylogic
      fuck you and your president
      holy shit, i'd say we've got a towel head alert...
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      • Fletch XXX
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        • Jan 2002
        • 60840

        #4

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        • MetroPornTour
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          • Apr 2005
          • 1043

          #5
          You know,

          Everyone should go rent the old movie " 1984 " (Better still read the book)
          It is scary at just how much of it has already come into existence.

          And just like 1984 we have these two concepts that goverments use.

          1. Thought crime - All and any freedom of expression promotes thought.

          2. Ignorance is Strength - An ignorant man will fight simply because he is told to. Never once questioning why. Never once because of an opinion or belief he formed on his own.
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          • fuzzylogic
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            • Jun 2004
            • 4796

            #6
            Originally posted by wallst
            holy shit, i'd say we've got a towel head alert...
            no, i am just playing.

            what about bush saying that god talks to him and he is guided by god to go to war?
            have u heard that in the news yesterday?

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            • Nysus
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              • Aug 2001
              • 7817

              #7
              That's hilarious. I wonder if Bush would do the same.. Bush, I think you and your wife are dumb, that means very stupid, but you might not even take offense to being called stupid; who knows...

              Matt
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              • xxxanax
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                • Aug 2004
                • 2285

                #8
                Not Just there, Read GFY tonight.


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                • Mr.Fiction
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                  • Feb 2002
                  • 9484

                  #9
                  Blair and Bush are alike.
                  Don't be lazy, protect free speech: ACLU | Free Speech Coalition | EFF | IMPA

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                  • Fletch XXX
                    GFY HALL OF FAME DAMMIT!!!
                    • Jan 2002
                    • 60840

                    #10
                    http://www.wxii12.com/irresistible/5066135/detail.html

                    Woman Booted Off Flight For Anti-Bush Shirt

                    POSTED: 12:49 pm EDT October 6, 2005

                    RENO -- A Washington state woman was bounced from a Southwest Airlines flight in Reno for wearing a T-shirt with the pictures of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and the F-word.

                    The shirt was a play on words taken from the movie "Meet the Fockers." It had the title of the movie, with the last word changed to a curse word, according to KRNV-TV in Reno.

                    Lorrie Heasley said she plans to press a civil-rights complaint against the airline over Tuesday's action at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Heasley said the airline offered to let her continue her flight if she were to change her shirt, which she refused to do.

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                    • Odin
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                      • Jan 2004
                      • 2545

                      #11
                      The 'hate laws' that they have bought in in many nations are pretty crazy. Australia has them to, as does most of Europe. Currently the US doesn't have the same kind of laws (as such speech is protected in their constitution) but they are always looking for other ways to shut people up.
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                      • Odin
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                        • Jan 2004
                        • 2545

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Fletch XXX
                        http://www.wxii12.com/irresistible/5066135/detail.html

                        Woman Booted Off Flight For Anti-Bush Shirt

                        POSTED: 12:49 pm EDT October 6, 2005

                        RENO -- A Washington state woman was bounced from a Southwest Airlines flight in Reno for wearing a T-shirt with the pictures of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and the F-word.

                        The shirt was a play on words taken from the movie "Meet the Fockers." It had the title of the movie, with the last word changed to a curse word, according to KRNV-TV in Reno.

                        Lorrie Heasley said she plans to press a civil-rights complaint against the airline over Tuesday's action at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Heasley said the airline offered to let her continue her flight if she were to change her shirt, which she refused to do.
                        Not sure the point you are making, but I am pretty certain you'd be breaking the law in every country by wearing that shirt. Not saying I support it, but having Fuck on your shirt is a criminal offense everywhere (though it isn't alwyas enforced obviously).
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                        • Fletch XXX
                          GFY HALL OF FAME DAMMIT!!!
                          • Jan 2002
                          • 60840

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Chief
                          but having Fuck on your shirt is a criminal offense everywhere
                          you gotta fucking be kidding me right?

                          how many times people wear "go fuck yourself" shirts?

                          its not a criminal offense.

                          what SHOULD be a criminal offense is to be that dumb.

                          i have and wear shirts with fuck on them.

                          im glad i live in california where i guess you can.

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                          • BusterBunny
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                            • Aug 2005
                            • 19291

                            #14
                            thats why i always walk around naked...my clothes often get me sent to jail...
                            my sig caught gonoherpasyphilaids and died

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                            • StickyGreen
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                              • Oct 2003
                              • 13076

                              #15
                              life is going to suck in about 20-50 more years...everything is gonna be crazy...
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                              • Odin
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                                • Jan 2004
                                • 2545

                                #16
                                Originally posted by Fletch XXX
                                you gotta fucking be kidding me right?

                                how many times people wear "go fuck yourself" shirts?

                                its not a criminal offense.

                                what SHOULD be a criminal offense is to be that dumb.

                                i have and wear shirts with fuck on them.

                                im glad i live in california where i guess you can.
                                I don't know US law but I can tell you that it IS illegal in Australia at least, and MOST other nations. But you know what, I can wear the shirt here to, it is UNLIKELY that I will be arrested for it, but legally I could be. Like I said the US has their constitution which may also protect them on this issue, I don't know (I never studied US law), but pretty much everywhere else in the West it is illegal.
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                                • fuzzylogic
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                                  • Jun 2004
                                  • 4796

                                  #17
                                  i used to wear a shirt to highschool that says "god of fuck" in big red letters.

                                  show me where it is against the law in the usa to use the word "fuck" in public

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                                  • Fletch XXX
                                    GFY HALL OF FAME DAMMIT!!!
                                    • Jan 2002
                                    • 60840

                                    #18
                                    Originally posted by Chief
                                    I don't know US law but I can tell you that it IS illegal in Australia at least, and MOST other nations. But you know what, I can wear the shirt here to, it is UNLIKELY that I will be arrested for it, but legally I could be. Like I said the US has their constitution which may also protect them on this issue, I don't know (I never studied US law), but pretty much everywhere else in the West it is illegal.
                                    i live in the beautiful USa where if i want i can go outside wearing this.



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                                    im ordering now

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