Posted on 05/01/2014 9:08:28 AM PDT by jazusamo
Democrat Sen. Edward Markey from Massachusetts says the government should crack down on broadcast messages that promote what he calls hate crimes, by regulating content on television, radio and the Internet.
He’s proposed commissioning a government study to find ways to stop the broadcast outlets from “encouraging hate crimes” through their various communications, Breitbart reported.
But First Amendment supporters say it can’t be done.
“This proposed legislation is worse than merely silly,” said civil liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate, in Breitbart. “It is dangerous. It is not up to Sen. Markey, nor to the federal government, to define for a free people what speech is and is not acceptable.”
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The Dersh is a piglet but he is well versed in the law and he is pro Israel so I don’t mind him.
You have no idea how much voter fraud goes on here. Who do you think old Joe
K was in cahoots with?
E. Fauxchahontas is much my Senator as Dumball is my Governor.
Ditto——and he’s my senator.
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You’re being sarcastic, right?
Unfortunately, my “neighbors” stretch all across the entire country; they’re called “Democrats.”
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