General Israel/Palestine discussion thread

[WildCat]

canada also banned george galloway from entering, but allowed ann coulter to come here and spew her hatred and vitriol.

Coulter didn't give material support to a terrorist group, like Galloway did.

I'm against the poster ban btw, but I can't help but snicker that the hate speech laws progressives demanded had the unintended but thoroughly predictable effect of stifling their own speech as well. It's hard to find a legally consistent method of banning only speech you disagree with, isn't it?

 

[likkerpig]

canada also banned george galloway from entering, but allowed ann coulter to come here and spew her hatred and vitriol.

You are actually comparing Galloway with Coulter?
One finacially supported a terrorist organization while the other is just preying on the intellectually deficient.
Paying for rpgs and katushas or making money off of xtians?

 

[bikerdruid]

Will you stop insulting Canada?

I think Canadians are, generally, able to take Coulter with the grain of salt that a serving of her rhetoric calls for.

...but we are too stupid to listen to george galloway intelligently?

 

[bikerdruid]

You are actually comparing Galloway with Coulter?
One finacially supported a terrorist organization while the other is just preying on the intellectually deficient.
Paying for rpgs and katushas or making money off of xtians?

and the canadian government gives material support for jewish groups that promote the suppression of the palestinians.....

 

[Thunder]

You are actually comparing Galloway with Coulter?
One finacially supported a terrorist organization while the other is just preying on the intellectually deficient.
Paying for rpgs and katushas or making money off of xtians?

Ann Coulter: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity".

http://old.nationalreview.com/coulter/coulter.shtml

yup, comparison looks fair to me.

 

[Ziggurat]

...but we are too stupid to listen to george galloway intelligently?

Galloway wasn't banned because of anything he said. He was banned because of what he did.

Coulter has never done anything of note except speak.

 

[Skeptic]

Maybe you can clarify what the author has been unable to illustrate? How is speech on Canadian campuses being stifled?

Marxists screaming about free speech. Yeah, what a laugh. You mean, like the kind of free speech that existed in the USSR, Mao's China, North Korea, Cuba, etc., etc., etc.?

But while I am against banning free speech, including that of the moron with the sign who was banned, that's not exactly like banning the protest in general.

There is a great saying: "Freedom of speech makes it easy to spot the idiots". I say, let them protest, just like they let Fred Phelps' "Westboro Baptist Church" folks protest. There isn't much of a difference between the two groups when it comes to the fanatical, hate-filled worldview.

Oh, and you know real men don't eat quiche? Well, real humanitarians don't support Hamas, an organisation whose official goal is a second holocaust, I mean a first holocaust, since it also claims the holocaust didn't happen.

I know, I know, it doesn't count -- just dead Jews, so who cares? Never stopped "humanitarians" of this sort before.

 

[Sword_Of_Truth]

canada also banned george galloway from entering, but allowed ann coulter to come here and spew her hatred and vitriol.

 

[bikerdruid]

i can't watch your vid....but you knew that.

 

[Sword_Of_Truth]

i can't watch your vid....but you knew that.

It's a choir singing our national anthem. Put away your solar panels, plug into the grid and join the 21st century already.

 

[bikerdruid]

It's a choir singing our national anthem.

.....relevance to this discussion?

 

[Sword_Of_Truth]

.....relevance to this discussion?

It's an expression of pride in this great country for displaying moral courage in standing up for truth, justice and freedom.

 

[bikerdruid]

It's an expression of pride in this great country for displaying moral courage in standing up for truth, justice and freedom.

....but could not care less than about free speech....
the current government under stephen harper has demonstrated on many occasions that 'freedom of speech' is not their thing.

 

[WildCat]

....but could not care less than about free speech....

Were you also outraged when Ezra Levant was hauled before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal?

How about when Rev. Stephen Boissian was hauled before the Alberta Human Rights Commission?

 

[Sword_Of_Truth]

....but could not care less than about free speech....

Terrorist fund raising is not free speech.

 

[Sword_Of_Truth]

Were you also outraged when Ezra Levant was hauled before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal?

How about when Rev. Stephen Boissian was hauled before the Alberta Human Rights Commission?

Other way around, Levant is Albertan (I met him once).

EDIT:

Levant's confrontation with the Alberta Thought Police (9 videos in the series, click through and watch them all, great stuff):

 

[Virus]

Imagine the outrage if I started a "Palestine Gangster Enclave Week". To commemorate all the terror they inflicted on Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Germany, Italy, France, Britain, themselves, ect...

No doubt the terrorist-supporting Marxist dimwits would try and shut that down.

 

[bikerdruid]

Terrorist fund raising is not free speech.

do you support the material support that our government gives to groups that openly support continued israeli expansion in the west bank?

 

[WildCat]

Were you also outraged when Ezra Levant was hauled before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal?

How about when Rev. Stephen Boissian was hauled before the Alberta Human Rights Commission?

bikerdruid? Any comment?

 

[bikerdruid]

bikerdruid? Any comment?

whether or not i like what they say, i support their right to do so.
i draw the line at teachers telling lies to students to support their own agendas.

levant is loud mouthed dink.
stephen boissoin is just another hate-filled christian homophobe, nor is he alone, but i think that in his church he should be free to speak.

i think that there are times when canada's hate speech legislation goes to far.