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If speech is suppressed, bullets may replace it
snorphty.blogspot.com ^ | 27 July, 2011 | John Jay Ray

Posted on 07/26/2011 6:34:37 PM PDT by marktwain

I think that is one lesson that should be learned from the Norway massacre. Public opinion polls in Norway reveal a great deal of dissatisfaction with the country's aggressive Muslim minority. But, outside the anonymity of a poll, you had better not say so.

Norway's penal code (Straffeloven, section 135 a) prohibits "hate speech" and defines it as publicly making statements that threaten or ridicule someone or that incite hatred, persecution or contempt for someone due to their skin colour, ethnic origin, homosexual life style or orientation or, religion or philosophy of life. So criticism of Muslims is illegal in Norway.

America's founding fathers gave Americans the First Amendment, which would have invalidated such a law in the USA, but there is no First Amendment in Norway and Norway's socialists have not been as wise as America's founding fathers.

So Anders Behring Breivik shot over 80 of the children of the Norwegian Leftist elite who passed the restrictive law concerned. See here.

It's a tragic day when bullets replace words but those who muzzle the words have to take some share of the blame. Trying to hold down discontent by suppressing expression of it is plain dumb -- but very Leftist.


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Hell the Franks (French) got their name from a nasty little Axe called the Francisca, they chopped many a Pagan and Saracen neck with it. And Now look at them, My Wife was raised in France, and we went back a Few years ago, its like Seattle except its a country, more Leftism (and Gloominess too) than you will want to see in your life.
21 posted on 07/26/2011 8:22:20 PM PDT by KC_Lion (If Sarah can't be elected in 2012, then Phase II will fall into place, may G-D have mercy on us all)
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