tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post2461828252064670190..comments2023-12-23T09:28:20.869+00:00Comments on The View from Cullingworth: The scariest quote I've read in a while...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-73743593315810920362013-07-02T13:47:46.386+01:002013-07-02T13:47:46.386+01:00Yes, it is a truly frightening comment. I have li...Yes, it is a truly frightening comment. I have little doubt Michael Collins starts many of his utterances with the words, "I believe in free speech but..."<br /><br />As Miss Geller says, "The nation that gave the world the Magna Carta is dead." Or as good as, anyway. While we harbour such as Abu HAMza (has anyone else seen that irony?) and other unashamed, unrepentant espousers of hate, this country will remain encorpsed, the only life being the rotting of the body.<br /><br />Radical RodentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-87392844191319016742013-07-01T21:56:30.750+01:002013-07-01T21:56:30.750+01:00I keep thinking the name "Hope not hate"...I keep thinking the name "Hope not hate" is totally wrong for what is in effect a hate group against a different group of people who just happen to have different opinions about what society should be. Have you seen the vitriol HnH have for those they hate?SadButMadLadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17836368722377421009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-55479573406755177032013-07-01T20:07:18.457+01:002013-07-01T20:07:18.457+01:00Freedom of speech, to that idiot, refers to your r...Freedom of speech, to that idiot, refers to your right to agree with him.<br /><br />Anyone who argues that there should be a limit put ex ante on what can be said-- not punishing results of the exercise of the freedom of speech, (fraud, libel, slander, incitement to violence etc)-- but some political-discourse version of the Carlinian Seven Words-- such a person is hardly going to allow YOU to decide what those words shall be. Inherent in their call for control, is that THEY will be in control.<br /><br />And as my mother used to say, "Who died and left you in charge?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com