Originally Posted by Meccy (Post 649656)

Garinda,

Do you regard your fellow countrymen as of a lesser intelligence than yourself? Are they not able to make up their own minds? For example, we all know that anti-Semitism is abhorrent, as is anti-Islamism and any other kind of anti-ism that you might care to mention.

Look what happened to Mosley - They ran him out of Cable Street because they knew what was right and he was, by and large, discredited. By all means let people preach whatever they want. Right thinking people - by far the majority - will ignore them.

To say that we need laws like these is insulting to the intelligence of the people of this country.

The government already has far too much power. If we don't now say "Enough!", then we condemn ourselves to live in a totalitarian society.

Originally Posted by Boeing Guy (Post 649692)

So we curtail a few freedoms, lets segregate some of the more perverted of our society, introduce identity cards and have a DNA database that uses a low count system of comparing DNA samples, put everyone on it, after all you have nothing to lose if you have done nothing wrong.

Then why stop there then, lets take the DNA of these sub human monsters and use the profile to identify similar dna in the general populace, get them before they offend protect, the innocent, once thats done, why stop at perverts, burglars, murderers, any criminal especially those terrible motorists who speed, after all speed kills.

Now we must nationalise all press and media, it is for your own safety and security of course. Control what they say and do.

Have checkpoints to check your papers on every major road and junction, after all this is in ALL your interests.

Before too long we can re-cycle (as in the book Fatherland) the Jews, Africans, Asians, Menatly Ill, Disabled, anyone who does not fit the DNA profile that we have created that is Clean, Decent, Good and not a danger to society.

After all this is in the best interests of YOU all.

Call me a cynic, but Adolf Hitler tried it, Robert Mugarbe tried it, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, tried it, numerous African states have committed genocide, the same happened in the former state of Yugoslavia. I do not trust any politician free speech is just what it says it is, you try to stop it and you play in to the hands these people.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 649632)

Well MargaretR, and I presume others, saw what you said as a sly dig at Parkinson's Disease.

Perhaps you're really that funny, you don't even see it.;)

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 649646)

We know that.

Sometimes you sit in a disabled parking space, whilst your able bodied passenger does your errands.

Goodness, this freedom to say anything, and for it to be funny, is soooooooooo liberating.:D

Originally Posted by jambutty (Post 649735)

That’s what you and MargaretR do best. Twist things around and read into statements what isn’t there just so you can try and earn some Brownie points.

You two should really grow up.

Originally Posted by Meccy (Post 649739)

It is plainly ridiculous to think that free speech is dangerous. It is only dangerous to those who would subdue it for their own ends. I am quite sure that most of the people on here are moderate and well meaning but, if they cannot divine what you mean from your well made argument (Kudos by the way), then I think that they are a lost cause.

Originally Posted by lancsdave (Post 649744)

So what you are really saying is that those don't agree with you are a lost cause. That seems to contradict what you say about free speech ?