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January 17, 2008
Robin Page Cleared of "Hate Speech"
After a five-year campaign, Robin Page has managed to clear himself by showing that there were no grounds for prosecution when he was arrested and thrown into a British jail for saying this:
If you are a black, vegetarian, Muslim, asylum-seeking, one-legged lesbian lorry driver, I want the same rights as you.
Allegedly, the joke constituted a "hate crime." His name was put on a "Homo-phobic Incidents Register," so he had better mind his P's and Q's in the future.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at January 17, 2008 10:41 AM
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the "Homophobic Incidents Register".
That gets my vote for the artifact of the Political Correctness Era most likely to make it into a Monty Python-type spoof in the year 2020.
Posted by: mega at January 17, 2008 10:59 AM
How can you parody what is already real-life living and breathing parody?
Posted by: Lyle at January 17, 2008 11:35 AM
Ah, the leftist dreamworld.
Posted by: Steve at January 17, 2008 12:08 PM
Are you the People's Front of Judea?
F--- Off! We're the Judean People's Front
Monty Python's "Life of Brian"
Posted by: JamesB at January 17, 2008 12:10 PM
I'm of the left and I don't approve of all this censorship one bit.
Posted by: hashfanatic at January 18, 2008 12:52 AM
Then, Hash, why are you here, bitching at right-wingers who want to defend free speech, instead of bitching at your PC leftist comrades who are out to censor it?
I guess because the latter would require courage. Left-wing blogs are quick to ban anyone who doesn't get in line. Also, your left wing pals might shun you.
Posted by: V the K at January 18, 2008 5:39 AM
"Then, Hash, why are you here, bitching at right-wingers who want to defend free speech, instead of bitching at your PC leftist comrades who are out to censor it?"
to be fair right wingers are the first to bitch and whine about censoring things that might not be "morally acceptable" such as tits on TV, words such as FUCK, PUSSY, CUNT...etc, and various other things.
you can't have it both ways.
Please, don't call me a lefty, i'm far from being a socialist, pant-pissing apologist.
Fuck the ACLU, FUCK the FCC, Fuck CAIR, FUCK NAMBLA, and FUCK the NAACP!!!
Posted by: Alex at January 18, 2008 6:00 AM
The right to engage in free political discourse is far more intrinsic to preserving a Democratic state than the right to use dirty words on TV.
We could ban all pronography tomorrow, and our Republic would survive just fine, and probably be a better place. But when we ban the type of free political discourse the left calls 'hate speech,' or withhold broadcast licenses from radio and TV stations because we don't agree with their political viewpoints, as the left also wants to do, we no longer have a Democratic-Republic.
We're at a very absurd place when the right to produce simulated child pornography is a "right" guaranteed by the first amendment, but you can't buy political ads within 60 days of an election without permission from the government. (Thank you, John McCain and Sandra Day O'Connor.)
Posted by: V the K at January 18, 2008 6:30 AM
To play the devil's advocate he could've said it in a more PC way and the earth wouldn't fall out of orbit either, i want to see tits just the same as i want to be able to call a bulldyke a bulldyke. it's all the same to me, pedophilia has nothing to do with what i was talking about.
Posted by: Alex at January 18, 2008 7:13 AM
"Then, Hash, why are you here, bitching at right-wingers who want to defend free speech, instead of bitching at your PC leftist comrades who are out to censor it?"
Because you need to be brought down to size once in a while and, had YOU not censored me once ages ago, I'd have been here sooner...
I'm saying I want EVERYONE to feel free to say what they wish to. I WANT to know what the enemy says and how he regards the normal world.
Me criticizing a poster for an opinion I find abhorrent=NOT CENSORSHIP.
You deleting posts from the opposition=CENSORSHIP.
Posted by: hashfanatic at January 18, 2008 9:19 PM
The "right" doesn't want you to be arrested for saying "fuck, pussy, cunt", if that's what floats your boat. What the "right" wants is to be able to watch prime-time with our kids and not have to hear that. Put it on a cable channel, put it on late at night, put a warning on the show, do whatever, then you can curse until your heart is content.
I don't hear anyone on the right screaming "hate crime" when a boob pops out on national tv, what the right says is keep it clean, I'm watching this with my children. The left wants to go beyond that and actually arrest people for politically incorrect speech as a way to suppress opposing views.
Do you have kids? Do you care if they hear "fuck, pussy, cunt" on tv? I have a feeling you don't have kids, but will suddenly become an expert on how others should raise them.
Posted by: NudeGayWhalesForJesus at January 19, 2008 3:25 PM
You see Hash...
Moderation of a private blog is not censorship. This is exactly how you justify your baseless propaganda.
You leave comments on these posts to create ill will as you have just admitted here. You deserved what you got. If there was such a thing as karma, that would be great evidence of it.
Posted by: Freedom Now at January 19, 2008 8:32 PM

