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Thread #106628   Message #2204090
Posted By: Amos
28-Nov-07 - 02:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: New law designed to arrest YOU
Subject: RE: BS: New law designed to arrest YOU
We do have some. The Bill provides for a Commission to study the roots of self-radicalization and what it rather stupidly terms "Home Grown Terrorism".

The danger is not that it provides for any action or penalty against speech per se, but that it establishes a stupid category with which to label speech, much as "Communist!" was used to label a whole spectrum of liberal notions back int he Fifties during Macarthy's reign of terror.

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