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Hate Speech: U.K. Political Leader Arrested for Quoting Winston Churchill

2005642_lowBy Selwyn Duke

A 2009 poll found that more than a third of British teenagers couldn’t identify some of Winston Churchill’s most famous words. Now it turns out that this deficit just might save them from jail.

In a shocking application of hate-speech law, Paul Weston (shown), co-founder and leader of the Liberty GB party and candidate for member of the European Parliament, was arrested on Saturday and now faces a possible two years in prison. His crime?

He quoted one of the 20th century’s most famous Englishmen, that WWII hero Churchill.

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One response to “Hate Speech: U.K. Political Leader Arrested for Quoting Winston Churchill”

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    Philip France

    I am personally fiercely opposed to any form of “hate” legislation for two reasons:
    1.”Hate” is unprovable. How one can discern the thoughts, emotions and motives of another? Answer: One cannot.
    2. The tendency of those on the socio-political left to conflate “hate” with “disagreement”.
    I oppose the radical homosexual agenda and any attempt to distinguish so-called “gay” rights from the rights that all others (including “gays”) are privileged to. However, I do not hate homosexuals and I believe that each and every one of them was created in the image of God every bit as much as I believe that I am. Traditional marriage is a sociological necessity and a biological imperative. Period.

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