rationale behind hate crimes

[Justin Schwartz]

Right. Many US leftists fled the "land of the free" with its constitutional 
guarantees for England, especially in the McCarthy period. You guys landed, 
e.g., M.I. Finley, the great classical historian. Of course, what has made 
the diff is the strong labor movement as a protector of democratic rights. 
Now that Blair and Thatcher have undermined the Labour Party, what do you 
predict for free speech in Britain? Anypne notice that Blair seems toi to 
want to replace worker's pwoer with constitutional guarantees? --jks


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>
>--- Justin Schwartz <jkschw at hotmail.com> wrote: >
>Advocacy of illegal conduct can only be prohibited,
> > consistewntly with the
> > first amendment, if the harm is immanent. "Kill that
> > kike!" (addressed to an
> > angry mob) is punishable. "All the kike should be
> > killed!" (in a leaflet) is
> > not. See Brandenburg v. Ohio, a 1966 S.Ct case.
> > --jks
> >
>
>Local statute, your mileage may vary.  In the UK,
>under our Race Relations Act, you can land up in the
>clanger for "Incitement to Racial Hatred", which would
>(and regularly has) indeed caught people for
>distributing Justin's hypothetical leaflet.
>Surprisingly, despite this complete abrogation of our
>constitutional rights, we are not yet a totalitarian
>hell-hole.
>
>Count me in with the supporters of banning the Nazis
>and KKK, by the way.
>
>dd
>
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