Quote of the day
Perry de Havilland, responding to a commenter on his post about the Jena Six:
Islamic nubjobs march in London holding signs calling for the beheading of anyone who upsets them… but in the end it is just sound and fury (for the most part). Sure people were lynched in the USA. Sure, Theo Van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands by an Islamic nutjob because he upset them. Yet to arrest people for the thought crime of being provocative is crazy because unless there is a degree of focus, it is not a real threat, it is just sounding off. It ain’t pretty and it should not be socially acceptable, but it should also not be illegal.
You should spend some time in Ulster and see what it is like during the marching season to understand the difference between actual threats of real violence and expressions of communal hatred. The American South are babes in the woods when it comes to long standing intercommunal hatreds and the expression thereof.
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