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Kate -True Brit
on 4/20/14 1:57 am - UK
Topic: RE: Free Speech
On April 20, 2014 at 6:36 AM Pacific Time, Don 1962 wrote:

The KKK would not be allowed to march or to declare their views to an audience here

What about the Neo Nazi types?

As the KKK only  (to my knowledge, I accept I may be wrong) exists to promote racial hatred, a march by them would  be seen here as provocative and inciting racial hatred. Neo Nazis are equally repugnant but often hide their racial hatred in a welter of other policies. They might therefore march under the banner of something like "limit immigration" which is not per se inciting racial hatred. They would not be allowed to march under a banner which, for example, referred to people of other races as sub-human and condoned violence.

Things are rarely clear cut and we also here in the UK try to preserve freedom of speech. Your manner of asking me this seems to imply we would allow Neo-Nazis. Far from it. But as in the US, it is a balancing act. 

Highest 290, Banded - 248   Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.

Happily banded since May 2006.  Regain of 28lbs 2013-14.  ALL GONE!

But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,

   

Kate -True Brit
on 4/20/14 1:46 am - UK
Topic: RE: Free Speech

Laurie, it isn't specifically that they are kept they just aren't removed. It's no big legal-protection thing. You go on any message board and you can go right back to the earliest posts ever made. 

Highest 290, Banded - 248   Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.

Happily banded since May 2006.  Regain of 28lbs 2013-14.  ALL GONE!

But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,

   

Jost Dreams
on 4/20/14 1:36 am
Topic: RE: Free Speech

Good points.  Thank you for reminding me.

Chrissy W.
on 4/20/14 12:05 am - Indianapolis, IN
VSG on 07/01/13
Topic: RE: Coldwater Creek and Family Dollar Going Out of Business

Family Dollar?? Really?? I hadn't heard that! I'd have thought that "dollar stores" would have thrived during the recession, as people couldn't afford to shop anywhere more expensive! That stinks :(

VSG 7/1/13 with Dr. Jack Rutledge 28 y/o female - 5'10" - HW: 298GW: 174 - SW: 290 (-8) - M1: 262 (-28) - M2: 247 (-15) - M3: 235 (-12) - M4: 228 (-7 ~First Stall: almost 2 wks~) - M5: 218 (-10) - M6: 209 (-9) - M7: 199 (-10) Onederland on 1/31 - M8: 196 (-3) 100 lb total loss on 2/2 - M9: 192.6 (-3.4) - M10: 188.6 (-4) - M11: 182 (-6.6) - M12: 175.6 (-6.4) - M13: 173.8 (-1.8) CW (7/8/15): 167 - GOAL reached in 1 Year and 25 Days! - TOTAL WL - 131 lbs  

White Dove
on 4/20/14 12:00 am - Warren, OH
Topic: Coldwater Creek and Family Dollar Going Out of Business

Since I lost weight, my favorite store has been Coldwater Creek.  When I was heavier I did not want to buy their clothes, but will really miss them now.  I will also miss Family Dollar.  Both victims of the recession.

Real life begins where your comfort zone ends

Don 1962
on 4/19/14 11:36 pm
Topic: RE: Free Speech

The KKK would not be allowed to march or to declare their views to an audience here

What about the Neo Nazi types?

Never, and I mean NEVER, trust a fart!! 


illinois Gama D.
on 4/19/14 10:55 pm
Topic: RE: Free Speech
On April 19, 2014 at 7:57 PM Pacific Time, Professor Sonja!!!! wrote:

Ohhhhhhhhh, you got moderated!  Damn that sucks 

 **** happens for a reason !!!!

Rny 2003

come join the new R&R 3.0, where the fun is:)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

H.A.L.A B.
on 4/19/14 9:54 pm
Topic: RE: Free Speech

 Lol...cool call

Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG

"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"

"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."

H.A.L.A B.
on 4/19/14 9:53 pm, edited 4/19/14 10:36 pm
Topic: RE: Free Speech

I do support a lot of your points of view but re founding fathers - you say this and that about them, while app 50% of them were slave owners and they did not believe or acknowledged any women rights.  They were no saints by any means. 

Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG

"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"

"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."

Jost Dreams
on 4/19/14 5:55 pm
Topic: RE: Free Speech

Oh yeah, it's quite alright to say that the Holocaust never happened, openly compare President Obama to Hitler and call him in the N word just cause he's one of them thar Demikrats and the country has gone straight to hell because of one man.  Plus he ain't even a real American....he's one of them moolatto Afrikans.  He was born in Africa by a tribe of Muslims, don't you know?  Freedom of Speech just like the right to bear arms has gone cuckoo.  Our Founding Fathers are thrashing in their graves. 

Hell, I'm sure the Klan would be burning crosses on the White House lawns too if they could get through security. 

P.S.  I don't believe any of the crap I wrote above.  There is no doubt that the Holocaust DID happen.  After being to Dachau, the Anne Frank House and the Jewish Museums in Prague, there is absolutely no doubt. I've been married to an African American man for 21 years.  We've lived in TX and South Africa.  Very sad to say, but we received more dirty looks in Texas than we did in South Africa, a country free from Apartheid for only 19 years. 

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