Burning (Deleting) Half a Million Qur'ans!

Killer Pigeon · 10-04-2011 01:00PM

stimpson wrote: »

Apparently there is a group of like minded individuals being persecuted in the uk at the moment

http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gnm/op/sbuEYQ6szm9_rrz3VgWirMw/view.m?id=15&gid=politics/2011/apr/09/bnp-candidate-arrested-quran-burning&cat=most-read

I know he's in the BNP and all and he isn't doing in for the same reason that the guy in the video I posted is (not exactly like minded individuals you'll find), but still it's abhorrent that he's being arrested for expressing himself - even though his message was intolerable.

This begs another question; when do you draw the line for freedom of speech and expression?

loremolis · 10-04-2011 02:42PM

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

I know he's in the BNP and all and he isn't doing in for the same reason that the guy in the video I posted is (not exactly like minded individuals you'll find), but still it's abhorrent that he's being arrested for expressing himself - even though his message was intolerable.

This begs another question; when do you draw the line for freedom of speech and expression?

Have a look at Louis Thereaux's most recent BBC documentary on the phelpps family in the states.

That shows how far people can push their right to free speech and get away with it

It's a mad mad world

James T Kirk · 10-04-2011 09:42PM

True.

But there's only about seventy members in that nutty cult; so let them waffle on.

They're life-trolls.

Ignore them and they soon dwindle away.

Start debating with them, and you're giving the attention they so obviously crave.

You can't argue with a stupid person. Do it long enough, and you end up stupid too.