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The U.N. Wants to Kill Free Speech

by Fred Miller | February 26, 2009 at 09:45 pm

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And now, from today's North Country Gazette more of what we detest :

The latest death knell for freedom of speech comes not from North Korea or Iran, but from that bastion of democratic freedom known as the United Kingdom.

Earlier this month, British authorities deported Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders,* declaring him a danger to “public security.”

http://www.northcountrygazette.org/2009/02/26/uk_free_speech/

*Wilders is being prosecuted in the Netherlands for hate speech after calling for a ban on the Koran. I'm not going anywhere with this just yet due to time restrictions. You can dig in and track this story after watching the video.
Useful link on Wilders: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3670993,00.html

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Uwe Paschen

at 02:39 on February 27th, 2009

The UN or some of its members?

Barry ORegan

at 07:13 on February 27th, 2009

The UN is the biggest waste of Money on the face of this earth! Rwanda and the current conflicts in Africa attest to that FACT!

Swan

at 11:13 on February 27th, 2009

Hello Barry,

Thank you for bringing this story to light.

While I abhor 'hate speech' of any kind, the prospect of having the masses` tongues controlled on particular issues is dangerous.

Currently, the KKK is permitted to march and demonstrate on the main streets of American cities.

Will they also be silenced? Or not. NOT. I can tell you now that the KKK movement is still so large that our government just lets them parade around, handing out leaflets - particularly to our youth.

Ok, that's not strictly about religion, since as well as Jews, their movements also hate; blacks; chinese; japanese; muslims and anyone else who isn't pure white.

While hate speech of any kind is destructive - we do need the voice of reason to prevail, not be silenced by an organization that has already shown itself to be entirely impotent.