Comments on: Free Speech is under attack

By: Richard Catto

Richard Catto — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:43:51 +0000

@Laane: So, in Holland, can you parade down the street in full Nazi regalia, stopping at each crossing to give the Hitler salute?

Because that is the kind of Free Speech that is protected in the United States.

In the United States, one is also free to question whether the Holocaust occurred, something which is illegal in Canada, France and Germany.

I remain amazed that some countries have the audacity to prohibit people from openly enquiring about the historical accuracy of any topic of historic research, which includes the Holocaust.

That is not democracy. That is something else.

By: Laane

Laane — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:45:27 +0000

The USA is certainly not the only country protecting freedom of speech.
And it certainly isn’t the country where people are really free to say what they want, whenever they want and where they want.

But I guess this kind of freedom of speech isn’t much appreciated.

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By: Richard Catto

Richard Catto — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:20:45 +0000

@Obaht: I have always loved Free Speech. I have always railed against regulations.

I, like many Americans, believe that the less government intervention there is, the better a country is.

I don’t see how what I wrote above could offend you.

By: Richard Catto

Richard Catto — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:19:10 +0000

@Sailor: Welcome back here, Arnold, and thanks for your great comment!

By: Obaht

Obaht — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:36:34 +0000

Catto,

You really are trying to crawl up, and live up, the smelly rectums of the ANC aren’t you?

Minorities in any country in any part of history do not do well under a majority of people that are hostile towards them.

South African whites are a minority and you will see that they, including you, will not do well over the next several decades. I look forward to seeing you in your old age, if you get there, living hand to mouth trying to depend on you guavament pension of 50 rands a day. This is all you will get as a grovelling white.

Do you know who you remind of? You are like one of the Jewish prisoners in the German concentration camps who survived longer because they helped the nazis to shove their own people into the gas chambers to kill them. You are cut from the same cloth as those dispicable excuses of humanity.

There, how do you like free speech now?

You and the rest of ANC South Africa doesn’t have a clue what free speech means, including you. SA never had a clue what it really meant in all it’s history.

You seem to think that people should just be free to say whatever they want without any consequences. Try this in a family unit and give free speech to all the children to say whatever they like to their parents or their siblings and see how long that family stays a unit. Try this in a school. Try it in a small community. Try it in a city. Try it in a country.

You don’t get it do you?

By: sailor

sailor — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:07:02 +0000

We do have free speech in this country. We live in a democracy after all. Free speech is one of the pillars of that democracy, just as innocence until proven guilty is a pillar.

We have a national broadcaster who has only the interests of the public at heart. This is not a country where columnists lose their job just for expressing their views. This is a country where we can stand tall and say – this country really supports free speech.

YEAH RIGHT!!

The media in this country is controlled, we have all seen numerous examples of this. Not only do we not have real free speech, we also have no culture of debate. How can one debate anything, if neither party is allowed to express their viewpoints freely.

Well written Richard, hopefully the correct people are reading.

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