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Howard Dean: Ann Coulter's 'hate speech is not protected by the first amendment'
Washington Examiner ^ | April 20, 2017 | Ariella Phillips

Posted on 04/21/2017 4:36:51 AM PDT by C19fan

Former Vermont governor and Democratic National Comittee chairman Howard Dean called out conservative pundit Ann Coulter on Twitter. Dean said, "Hate speech is not protected by the first amendment."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: dean; howarddean; rights; speech
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To: C19fan

The country is in a cold civil war. If these people keep losing I’m a bit concerned they may try a “french revolution” style revolt. Not that they’ll win, but I’d rather this war stay cold.


21 posted on 04/21/2017 4:55:59 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: Lizavetta

“The First Amendment is most certainly to protect “hate” speech or any other unpopular speech. That’s The whole point. Popular speech doesn’t need a First Amendment.”


I agree 100%. You literally just about took the words right out of my mouth. There it is, indeed, no need for a 1st Amendment if everybody says nice things to each other and no one is offended by anything that anyone else says. The first amendment is needed only to protect things that others consider offensive.

“Dumbass.”

I could not disagree more with this one part of your post. Howard Dean knows exactly what he is doing. He is not stupid, he is, like the rest of the Left, a fascist. Let’s stop attributing to stupidity what is really attributable to evil. They on the Left want to utterly dominate our society. The first step in doing this is to gain control over all the levers of power. This can only be achieved if they shut us up, and that can only be achieved if they destroy the First Amendment.

So far as I am concerned, “ANTIFA” stands for “Anti-First Amendment.”


22 posted on 04/21/2017 4:56:12 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: C19fan

Under the smarmy face of a liberal like Howard Dean is a traitor to the United States of America.


23 posted on 04/21/2017 4:57:03 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: C19fan

24 posted on 04/21/2017 4:57:08 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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To: C19fan

The dying left pulling at straws.


25 posted on 04/21/2017 4:59:01 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism5" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: C19fan

Assuming Dean is the decider of what’s hate speech.


26 posted on 04/21/2017 4:59:38 AM PDT by Fhios
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To: Chiefly Runamok

Best post.


27 posted on 04/21/2017 4:59:45 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: C19fan
Former Vermont governor and Democratic National Comittee chairman Howard Dean called out conservative pundit Ann Coulter on Twitter. Dean said, "Hate speech is not protected by the first amendment."

Of course the Democrats determine what is and what is not hate speech. According to the Democrats anything that anyone says that they do not like is automatically "hate speech."

But Howard, the First Amendment was put out there to protect people who want to say things you do not agree with.

Have you forgotten Berkeley and its "free speech" filth? With the communists in charge Berkeley now is against free speech is it not?

28 posted on 04/21/2017 5:02:04 AM PDT by olezip
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To: Jaxter

Hate Speech = Anything THE LEFT disagrees with.


29 posted on 04/21/2017 5:03:35 AM PDT by maddog55 (America Rising)
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To: C19fan

Hate is coming from their side!! Attacks are their They are not the judge and jury of the world...

They have taken over the universities... and now, sending a young person to college is spending money to have your child turned into a progressive idiot.


30 posted on 04/21/2017 5:03:39 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: C19fan

Howard Dean—one of the loudest purveyors of hate speech today.


31 posted on 04/21/2017 5:03:46 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: rlmorel

We are no longer dealing with liberals. Genuine liberals in my youth would oftentimes say that while they might disagree vehemently with what I had to say, that they would defend to the death my right to say it. However, the last genuine liberal is somewhere in a nursing home drooling and crapping in his or her pants. We are now dealing with Leftists. Leftist care only about winning, and they don’t care how they do it. They might prefer to do it politely, but they all understand that that will not be possible. Therefore, they moved to Plan B, which is to first shut us up. They cannot win if they don’t do that. The fact that the First Amendment was specifically drafted and placed into the Bill of Rights to protect the right of any person to criticize the prevailing wisdom of the day means nothing to them. When it doesn’t work for them, they throw it in the trash.

Democrats = Leftists = Communists/Fascists. Please get that straight in your mind, then you will really understand what is going on.


32 posted on 04/21/2017 5:05:31 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: brucedickinson

Me too.


33 posted on 04/21/2017 5:07:33 AM PDT by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: C19fan

Was this before or after he sealed his gubenatorial records from public view?


34 posted on 04/21/2017 5:08:03 AM PDT by sappy (criminaldems)
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To: missnry

“Hmmmm - really? Do to safety concerns... “

Overseeing the massive decline in circulation of the Tallahassee Democrat was a black, female editor. To call her outlook racist was to put it mildly. During her tenure more and more Blacklish found its way into editorials. At the time I worked for an Israeli company. The Israeli managers and engineers all spoke English as a second language. For the most part their English followed the grammar rules more than those of us born here. Now, we’re talking about people who are super-liberal. They discussed how ignorant the Democrat’s writers sounded and after being called racist in print a few times, several of them stopped taking the paper and moved over to the Wall Street Journal.

I am all in favor of bad grammar in major paper liberal print news. It runs off the cream of their support.


35 posted on 04/21/2017 5:10:09 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Ancesthntr

“Anti-fa means anti first amendment”

Perfect.


36 posted on 04/21/2017 5:10:22 AM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: C19fan

Unfortunately for us, the 1st amendment protects Howard Dean’s “Stupid Speech”.


37 posted on 04/21/2017 5:11:06 AM PDT by vespa300
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To: C19fan

1) First of all, yes it is. The First Amendment makes no exception for “hate speech.” It doesn’t even mention the term, which is just fascist shorthand for “anything that questions our sacred orthodoxy.”

2) It isn’t hate speech just because Howard Dean says it is. He doesn’t have the authority to regulate the words that come out of peoples’ mouths.


38 posted on 04/21/2017 5:14:21 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: missnry

You must be careful with your homophonies.


39 posted on 04/21/2017 5:14:31 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: All

Hate-speech is whatever Howard Hochstetter decides it is...


40 posted on 04/21/2017 5:15:51 AM PDT by Maverick68
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