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[Pligganease]

[wannago]

[wannago]

[ddeubel]

I see all the Yahoo's are dancing nakedly and swiftly on the beach.

What's next -- smearing one's self with grease and telling campfire stories about the injustices of society?

DD

[contrarian]

Why are people so willing to be tolerant of these Muslim twits. Anybody who intentionally strikes anyone with car, no matter what the verbal provocation deserves a very lengthy jail sentence for attempted murder followed by deportation.

By the way I don't think Tennessee had had any KKK murders in well over a hundred years Alabama and Mississippi had a couple back in the early 60's.

The closest similar thing that I can think of is about 20 years ago Jewish teenager made a poster of Muhammed in sexual congess with a pig. There were 18 riot deaths arising out of that one. The rule for Muslims in the US should be - our country our rules - you don't like it leave. Canada of course "gives a smilling reach around".

[supernick]

Freedom of speech is one thing, but what about insults. Insults are a form of harassment and though there are little federal controls on hate speech, states and local governments do. So do universities and places of employment.

Do you and others bother to read the rules on this forum?

Well, here's a reminder.

And so it's time to remind users here of a few things




The rule regarding flamming and personal attacks has not been strictly enforced on this forum, in part due to the difficulty in separating political views from flames/attacks in many instances coupled with a reluctance to over-moderate what is largely a political forum in the face of the upcoming US election.


This will now change and everyone is now on notice that personal attacks will no longer be tolerated. Users will treat each other with civility and respect regardless of the political chasms that may exist.


We're not asking people to refrain from giving their views on political parties, public figures, and events, but calling another user (for example) a crypto-fascist because they don't like Kerry or a terrorist-sympathizer because they don't agree with the war in Iraq will no longer be tolerated.


We all want the same things in life: safety/security, freedom, prosperity, and equality; Our arguments do not stem from whether or not these are our goals but rather how best to acheive them, and our political arguments here should bear this in mind. Let's have spirited debate over our differences rather than hateful personal attacks.


With the US election in sight people want to voice their political opinions more than ever; While we need to turn down the level of invective here before it completely boils over, at the same time we don't want to have to start temp-banning users left, right and center (pun intended) so let's try to keep it clean.


And because of the looming election this forum has become quite lively and consequently hard to moderate, and so we ask for your cooperation:
if you see a post or thread which you feel requires moderation please send a PM with a link to one of the moderators, and if you are the subject of a personal attack please do not respond in kind but again send a PM with a link to one of the moderators;
In both cases please be patient and give us some time to look into the matter and rectify the situation.


Remember: "Play the ball, not the player".

Harassment is a form of discrimination which includes comments or behavior that puts someone down, insults or offends another person because of his or her sex, creed, race, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, place of origin, ethnic orientation.

[supernick]

You don't have to be a Muslim to be twisted. As I said before, if I had made insults to a taxi driver based on his race or religion I probably would have been assaulted.

[wannago]

[ChuckECheese]

[Rteacher]

I think that offensive speech is also basically protected if it's based on truth. It's OK to call a spade a spade (or a pig a pig ...)

Workplace harassment laws, while arguably positive in some respects, have controversially conflicted with Freedom of Speech in many areas. These are effectively highlighted by a UCLA Law School professor on his website:http://www.law.ucla.edu/volokh/harass/

As far as distinguishing real from bhogus religion, if a so-called religion is obviously man-made (like Scientology...) it's not a real religion...

Of course, there are fanatics within every group, and people that run other people over due to perceived insults to their religion have to be prosecuted (but I don't think the fact scenario of this case is clear at this point, as far as I can tell...)

It would be a positive development, I think, if there were a (Cabinet-level?) minister in charge of interfaith understanding and cooperation. Then there could be standards of religious conduct established based on the core ideals of each major religion, which should serve to gradually promote mutual respect and mitigate sectarian conflict...

[Pligganease]

[happeningthang]

[supernick]

For the record, can we agree that wannago, ChukECheese and W.T.Carl think that it's perfectly OK to insult people based on their nationality, religion or race. Is that what you guys are agreeing to?

wannago wrote:

[On the other hand]

RTeacher wrote:

[W.T.Carl]

"It matters not wether my nieghbor has one God, a thousand Gods or no God at all. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg" However, if member of a religion decides to "pick my pocket or break my leg" ect. in the name of said religion, I reserve the right to decorate my trees with them. THIS IS FREEDOM OF RELIGION.

"I do not agree with a word you say but will defend to the death your right to say it". THIS IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

Any questions?

THUS ENDTH THE LESSON.

NOTE: I regret referring to Canadians as being PC Nazis. While I have met a great number of Canadians only a large number were ignorant selfrighteous pompous PC Nazis.