Dangerous speech?
Here is a section of a story I wrote about Amos Guiora and his book “Freedom From Religion: Rights and National Security,” in which he advocates limiting religious speech that government views as inciting listeners to violent behavior.
“If Amos Guiora had his way, undercover moles would be planted in Islamic mosques and in polygamous sect meetinghouses led by controversial figures to listen for speech that incites followers to violent behavior.
Any extremist religious leader who sanctions criminal acts — like the terrorist attacks of 9/11 or underage marriages performed at a remote Texas ranch — should, he argues, be arrested.
Religious extremism is the single greatest danger to civil democratic society today, a threat so great it justifies controversial impositions on constitutional rights, said Guiora, a professor at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law.”
You can read the rest of the story here.
It is too subjective to determine what is inflamatory speech. Establishing a direct link between speech and a particular act can be difficult. Besides, we are already doing what Guiora wants. Just label a group a cult like the FLDS and you can persecute them like Utah, Arizona, Texas and the Feds are already doing.
“Religious extremism is the single greatest danger to civil democratic society today, a threat so great it justifies controversial impositions on constitutional rights, said Guiora, a professor at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law.”
Ahhhh…no, military extremism is the single greatest danger to civil democratic society. Guiora ought to study the fall of the Roman Empire.
Military Statistics > Military Capabilities > Defense Budget (most recent) by country
# 1 United States: $518,100,000,000.00
# 2 China: $81,480,000,000.00
# 3 Russia: $40,300,000,000.00
# 4 Korea, South: $21,050,000,000.00
# 5 India: $19,040,000,000.00
# 6 Turkey: $12,155,000,000.00
# 7 Iran: $4,300,000,000.00
# 8 Pakistan: $4,253,000,000.00
# 9 Korea, North: $4,033,500,000.00
# 10 Vietnam: $650,000,000.00
Total: $705,361,500,000.00
Weighted average: $70,536,150,000.
These statics can be found at NationMaster under Military Capabilities > Defense Budget
What a disgrace that this country spends over 70% more than the international average but are incapable of securing its own borders. Sorry Guiora, I am not buying into this “religious extremists” blame game.
It isn’t the “religious extremists” who are bent on destroying the Constitution. It is the dumbed downed self-alienated Anti-American’s who want to destroy it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WASHINGTON — A record 7 million people — or one in every 32 American adults — were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year, according to the Justice Department.
Of those, 2,193,798 were in prison or jail, an increase of 2.7 percent over the previous year.
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The number of Americans using antidepressants doubled in only a decade, while the number seeing psychiatrists continued to fall, a study shows.
About 10% of Americans — or 27 million people — were taking antidepressants in 2005, the last year for which data were available at the time the study was written. That’s about twice the number in 1996, according to the study of nearly 50,000 children and adults in today’s Archives of General Psychiatry. Yet the majority weren’t being treated for depression. Half of those taking antidepressants used them for back pain, nerve pain, fatigue, sleep difficulties or other problems, the study says.
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Our failing educational system, our failing health care system, our failing infrastructure along with the failure of our economy has absolutely NOTHING to do with “religious extremists”. This country is like an apple that looks good on the outside but is rotting from the inside out all due to the irresponsible military spending. THAT is the greatest danger to civil democratic society, just as it was with the Roman Empire.
I’m with Matriach. America has created a prison system that is unprecedented in the world, incarcerating a greater portion of its population than any other, while overseas it has involved itself in a religious war–a crusade that has killed hundreds of thousands, slogging on with it only to put off the inevitable defeat. America is no longer a shining light of freedom and hope, but one of repression and death. So to want to throw away the constitution to allow America to more efficiently repress its own people–under the name of democracy, no less!–is ludicrous. It’s classic totalitarianism.
First Amendment, I found this quote over the weekend.
“America is today the leader of a world-wide anti-revolutionary movement in the defence of vested interests. She now stands for what Rome stood for: Rome consistently supported the rich against the poor . . . and since the poor, so far, have always and everywhere been far more numerous than the rich, Rome’s policy made for inequality, for injustice, and for the least happiness of the greatest number.”
British historian Arnold J. Toynbee
Vested interests: Iraq- oil, FLDS-UEP. That pretty much sums it up. Of course, we ALL know what happened to the Roman Empire.