Free speech not government-controlled speech is what the people must exercise - Hermann Kelly

"In a sane country, Cathal Crowe’s remarks above would be universally regarded as the most disgraceful thing said by an Irish politician in the last several years. As it is, you won’t read that he even made them, anywhere else." - John McGuirk -

FF TD: THIS NEW HATE SPEECH BILL SURE WILL SILENCE MY ENEMIES

A truly remarkable contribution, in the Dáil, last week, from Fianna Fáil TD Cathal Crowe against free speech and the Irish Freedom Party....
But he goes on, then, remarkably, to say that “they have no right” to campaign on these issues, and that they will have “less of a right” to campaign on those issues once we “sign up to this”, and that “any form of inciting on those issues” will be “in the form of illegality”

The “this”, in question, by the way, is Ireland’s decision to sign up to an EU directive widening the list of EU crimes to include hate crime and hate speech...

After all, what he is saying is that in his view, it should be illegal to campaign on issues about gender, transgender rights, and immigration. This is, of course, presented as a campaign against hate speech and incitement to hatred. What it really is, of course, is a campaign against choice.

After all, in a democracy, voters have a say on the political decisions that are made. And when you say that issues cannot be presented to the voters for them to adjudicate on in an election, what you are really saying is that voters have no right to make decisions on these
issues. You are removing the most fundamental right in a democracy, which is the right to make an appeal to your fellow citizens.

https://gript.ie/ff-td-this-new-hate-speech-bill-sure-will-silence-my-enemies/

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