Posted on 06/22/2008 9:10:48 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Comments from bloggers that say, "Hartford is a piece-of-scum city populated by animals," and, "It is the African/ Latino people that have ruined our country,” are the kind that Mayor Eddie Perez said he no longer wants to see on www.hartford.com.
Perez and community leaders held a rally Friday afternoon in front of the Broad Street headquarters of the state's largest newspaper, the Hartford Courant.
Perez said he's asked the Courant to better monitor comment from readers
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anyone from Hartford? Is this true about your city?
“You can’t handle the truth...”
...true.
But he’ll tolerate crime?
Incomplete headline...”I won’t tolerate hate or racism...from white people.”
Squelching freedom of speech on a local level.
Pedestrians left to rot in the street after being struck by cars are still OK, however.
Liberals hate free speech.......that is the fact.
Screw the first amendment. That is for little, unimportant peons. Not us members of your government.
The mayor has every right to disagree with that opinion but he has no right to suppress it.
I don’t blame problems on racial and ethnic groups.
Frankly, the white kids were the rowdies at the bowling alley last night while the black and Puerto Rican people were well-behaved.
There are moral problems and crime problems that affect more black people than white people causing our prisons to have a big black population. The incaceration of large numbers of black people is about the crime they commit, not the color of their skin.
But they love hate speech if it's directed at Republicans.
I wonder how Eddie feels about “Bush lied, people died” or pictures of people burning the American flag on the website. I imagine he’d say those things are covered by the “freedom of speech” thing. The great thing about the First Amendment is that it makes it easier for us to identify the morons living among us.
Yup, every word of it . .true
Nice post.
If the paper doesn’t change its’ way, the Mayor will send
over some gangbangers to correct the problem.
Who is this clown? El Exigente?
Just for fun, I’m going to log onto hartford.com and post this message: “Hartford is a piece-of-scum city populated by animals.”
Free Speech that isn’t politically correct.
Will the SHEEPLE tolerate this?
Even LEGAL immigrants agree with this “hate speech”.
Let’s not lump LEGAL, decent immigrants with the ILLEGAL, free loaders that perfer crime and handouts.
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