http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/08/craigslist-urged-to-kill-_n_708678.html

Apparently giving them what they want in the states wasn’t good enough.

Won’t happen, of course.

Protesting content is not the same as protesting the right to speak

Muslim protests are usually protesting the latter, not the former, and calling for someone’s death is pretty much the ultimate form of protesting the right to speak.

You might not be aware, but multiple people died in Pakistan in various incidents that were cited as a response to the Danish cartoons. It’s strange that people try to equate such violence to a simple protestation of the content.

But some will be anyway.

Always remember, Uniform, badge, gun = instant HERO status!

Ok 4 yr degree required and they should be no younger than say 38!

Mostly they should only watch Andy Griffith reruns for REAL training!

How about they just tax the PD’s 100% of any assest forfeiture money.

| Pete S | September 7th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Remeber a few years back when a police department refused to hire a guy because he tested too high on his IQ test….

Over 80?

But, frankly, Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims. And among those Muslims led by the Imam Rauf there is hardly one who has raised a fuss about the routine and random bloodshed that defines their brotherhood. So, yes, I wonder whether I need honor these people and pretend that they are worthy of the privileges of the First Amendment which I have in my gut the sense that they will abuse.

As bad as you just did?*
I don’t know why I ever thought the left was better on civil liberties than the right as they are equally atrocious.

* Just put a string of obscenities, profanities, and vitriolic denunciations of Marty Peretz’s humanity, decency, ancestry, sexual proclivities and DNA makeup here.

That doesn’t change the fact that there are countless examples of certain Muslims using violence and intimidation to try and silence those they disagree with. Only a very small minority may actually commit violence and many Muslims have condemned such efforts, but few would argue that criticism of Islam is risky.

Newsflash — any police officer is force “a priori.”

A police officer merely existing, not even acting, is force. The potential to act with force counts as force — that’s logical enough.

But even before that, police officers are paid with tax (read: stolen) money. That money has to be taken by force.

There is no meaningful way to differentiate between qualities of force regarding police officers. To treat actual physical violence as the only force worthy of consideration is to not see the forest for the trees.

It’s the kinder, gentler machine-gun hand of which Neil Young sang.

It is ALL violence.

You’re just upset because Peretz speaks the truth, and he might just get himself in trouble with the establishment because of said truth-telling.

Of course the Bill of Rights lists privileges. The State can do whatever it can get away with, whatever its agents are willing to justify. Who’s going to stop them?

Is not a major portion of this blog devoted to daily transgressions against the U.S. Constitution by State agents?

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” J.W. Von Goethe

Mr. Peretz gives a healthy dose of reality, most probably unintentional and oblivious, but reality nonetheless.

Thanks for reminding me how awesome my wife is. She’s the one who introduced me to the Agitator.

And no, it’s not foreplay, although your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Well, it certainly is abusive if it is only allowed as a part of the criminal underworld. It’d be interesting to see how quickly a sex-workers union cleaned up the business in a country where prositution is legal*.

Let’s not forget that “abusive” shouldn’t default to “illegal”. Taxation is abusive. But, I like the services I get from prostitution much better than what I get from taxation.

*I mean REALLY legal and not just “legal” where the Feds still raid you at gunpoint or regulate you so much as to still justify a blackmarket.

It does, however, skirt by a serious point that those who seek to supress speech should be condemned for doing so (e.g. those Muslims who rioted in response to the Danish cartoons or those who sought to condment Salman Rushdie to death). Many of those who have done the most to limit or destroy free speech in recent years have been Muslim.

Protesting content is not the same as protesting the right to speak.