The New Crusade

[Occhidiangela]

OK van Gogh, I don't know if you know the guy. He insulted people for fun....something that has nothing to do with freedom of speech. (you have the freedom to say everything you want, but you should have the wisdom not to say everything). Example, he (in a column in some journal) stated that a dutch jewish writer (I think it was Leon de Winter whos parents died in a concentration camp) had wet dreams where he was having sex with dying people in the gas chambers.

Hirsi Ali was another of those people with a second agenda (becoming an important person), in her noble struggle for muslim women rights, she was actually just using insults.

So, for this they should die? Don Rickles and George Carlin made careers out of insulting people (in different ways) as part of their comedy/social commentary.

Should they have been killed for that?

I have been known to sneer at or mock Eurotrash. Should I be killed for that?

Pete has, in posts at the DSF and here, belittled idiots. Should he be killed for that?

Where do you stand, eppie, on free speech? Do you understand it?

"I disagree with you, sir, but I defend to the death your right to tell such lies." That approach works for me, as it allows a liar to be exposed for what he is, and a bigot.

Should the sentence for bigotry be death, eppie? Are thought crimes now capital offenses?

Look at how far on an assanine slippery slope this takes things. The Pope's speech was used as an excuseto kill non Muslims in Gaza and Somalia.

"I don't like what he said, therefore, he and people like him shall die."

This latest butchery in the name of Allah is eerily similar to being put to death for treason in feudal times, except there is no court, no kingdom, and no Divine Right of Kings. It's unilateral punishment for speech against "whatever I say it is this morining, Allah Be Praised."

You risk entering their ideological camp, eppie, if you play the apologist for killing excused by "I don't like what he said."

Occhi