March 08, 2006
Dragnet on the way for London cartoon protesters [posted by Allah]
Remember these turds? Scotland Yard does.
This stuff shouldn't be illegal, but I guess if you're going to criminalize impolitic sentiments, incitements to decapitation aren't a bad place to start.
UPDATE: An Orwellian nightmare from Al Jazeera, using leftist methods of argumentation to advance the interests of religious fundamentalists at the expense of free speech:
The truth is that today racism, intolerance, xenophobia, and hatred of the other hide behind the sublime façade of free speech, the defence of “our” values and protection of “our” society from “foreign” aggression.Let us not be deceived about this rhetoric of liberalism and free speech. The Danish cartoons have nothing to do with freedom of expression and everything to do with hatred of the other in a Europe grappling with its growing Muslim minorities, still unable to accept them.
Remarkable. They know who's on their side, and they know exactly how to talk to them.
For the punchline, click the link, scroll down and read the author's bio.
Posted by Allahpundit at March 8, 2006 12:54 AM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags:
I believe Lenin's term was "useful idiots".
Orwellian nightmare indeed. War is peace, etc. Absolutely disgusting, and frightening at the same time.
Posted by: Redhand at March 8, 2006 07:03 AMSo, if I go to London and yell DYKE! I'll get arrested? Makes me want to book a cheap flight over there just to do it.
Posted by: ll at March 8, 2006 09:16 AMI'm no legal expert, but incitement to violence is illegal in this country too, isn't it? Yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater and all that.
Posted by: Yaron at March 8, 2006 11:12 AMIncitement is illegal in this country too, but it's not incitement unless there's a threat of imminent lawless action. If you take a megaphone and goad a roiling crowd into rioting, that's incitement.
As disgusting as these protests were, there didn't seem to be much of a threat of imminent violence.
Posted by: Allah at March 8, 2006 12:11 PMAlright, well, it's a little bit of a value judgment on whether they should arrest the crazies. The placards were clearly *calling* for violence; couple that with the evidence (as you yourself have presented) that there's an large and growing minority in Britain that sympathizes with those statements, and you have yourself a good case for locking up the sign-holders.
Posted by: Yaron at March 8, 2006 04:42 PM
