Europe continues to kiss free speech good-bye

It seems that Great Britain has a little “context” dust-up of their own. British TV Channel 4, as part of a year-long investigation, featured in a program some remarks made by the preachers of the Religion of Peace inside their mosques.

The police, after initially investigating some of the individuals featured in the program, turned their sights on Channel 4. The police claimed that Channel 4 was taking the comments out of context and thus may have been possibly guilty of stirring up racial hatred.

Channel 4 stuck to their guns and eventually got a public retraction and apology from the police and prosecutors. Story here.

And this all points to the stupidity and ultimately the danger of these so-called “hate speech laws”. The very ambiguity of the letter and intent of these types of laws allows for their twisting and abuse. Similar to slimy operatives in Canada that post hate comments on websites of which they disagree in order to get those same sites investigated by various Canadian human rights commissions, the very hatred and intolerance that Channel 4 was exposing was turned right back around on them by the (thought) police as inciting hatred, themselves.

And actress, Brigitte Bardot has been fined once again by the French government for “inciting racial hatred”. Bardot, an animal rights activist wrote a letter to then-French Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, arguing that Muslims should stun animals before slaughtering them during the Aid al-Kabir holiday.

“I’ve had enough of being led by the nose by this whole population which is destroying us, and destroying our country by imposing their ways.”

She wrote to prosecutors: “I’m sickened by how anti-racist groups are harassing me.” We would like to challenge her description of these groups.

She was fined 12,000 pounds but considering about whom she was running this smack, we believe she got off easy.

Embrace the hatred of hate crime laws.