Reply #188: Your view is NOT a view of the Democratic Party or the laws of this land [View All]

[MADem]

The Democratic Party doesn't go for hate speech. Neither do our laws.

The issue IS the law. And our laws say you can't call for the murder of an entire religion. That is what this station does.

This discussion is not about "conflicts that you seem obsessed with" (though you might like to change the subject, eh? Anything to deflect from a failed argument--quick, reach for an emotional cheap shot--sorry, pal, ya missed), this discussion is about the banning of a station in the USA, a station that incites people to murder Jews. It isn't about "faraway lands" or going back centuries, or any other unrelated ideas. But way to try to deflect from a weak argument!

It's about a station that broadcasts death threats against a religion, and it is about the government's refusal (in concert with other governments in this hemisphere and Europe and elsewhere) to allow that sort of incitement to be broadcast freely.

And I need hip boots, because despite your grand pronouncement that 'it is the content that is protected' I got news for ya: IT AIN'T. We have laws in this country against inciting to violence. We have laws in this country that forbid monetary transactions with entities that call for genocide. It's pretty cut and dried. Those are the laws that check the First Amendment, get to know them. They apply to you and the rest of the citizenry, and have for some time, now.