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1967 Blizzard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to many, many test cases in court, the 1st<\/sup> Amendment’s inclusion of freedom of speech includes various media formats such as books and videos and movies and public speech and is actually the subject under discussion here. I know that the liberal twits dislike the mere idea that We Who Are Not Their Kind have the right to speak our minds freely, but, as was clearly demonstrated in the legal cases in defense of Grove Press publishing Henry Miller’s skanky porn novel “Tropic of Cancer” (see links below), even pornography is considered free speech.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/mtsu.edu\/first-amendment\/article\/389\/grove-press-v-maryland-state-board-of-censors<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/attorney-general-v-tropic-of-cancer<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/first-amendment\/article\/351\/grove-press-v-gerstein#:~:text=Gerstein%2C%20378%20U.S.%20577%20(1964,most%20censored%20books%20in%20history<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some lower courts have been designating “hate speech” as not subject to the privileges of the 1st Amendment’s free speech section.<\/p>\n

Hate speech<\/b>\u00a0is defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as “public\u00a0speech<\/b>\u00a0that expresses\u00a0hate<\/b> or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation”.<\/p>\n

However, per http:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/intfreedom\/hate<\/a> , there are restrictions on what is defined as hate speech since they are intended as instructions to do harm to others.\u00a0 Per ALA.org. :<\/p>\n

Hate Speech<\/h4>\n

There is no legal definition of “hate speech” under U.S. law, just as there is no legal definition for evil ideas, rudeness, unpatriotic speech, or any other kind of speech that people might condemn. Generally, however, hate speech is any form of expression through which speakers intend to vilify, humiliate, or incite hatred against a group or a class of persons on the basis of race, religion, skin color sexual identity, gender identity, ethnicity, disability, or national origin.\u00a01<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

In the United States, hate speech is protected by the First Amendment. Courts extend this protection on the grounds that the First Amendment requires the government to strictly protect robust debate on matters of public concern even when such debate devolves into distasteful, offensive, or hateful speech that causes others to feel grief, anger, or fear. (The Supreme Court’s decision in\u00a0Snyder v. Phelps<\/a> provides an example of this legal reasoning.) Under current First Amendment jurisprudence, hate speech can only be criminalized when it directly incites imminent criminal activity or consists of specific threats of violence targeted against a person or group. – article<\/p>\n

Therefore, Hitler addressing his juvenile admirers in one of his enthralling speeches and encouraging them to engage in Kristallnacht would be considered hate speech.<\/p>\n

And this brings up the subject of Sheldon Whitehouse, a Senator, (D-RI), who has announced his intention to pursue the prosecution of those whose opinions about climate change don\u2019t match what he claims are his opinions<\/em> \u2013 and he will likely back that up with names and other references.\u00a0 Therefore, it is high time that people stop being obedient noonches and tell people like him to go pound sand. I will add the disclaimer here that I believe he is aiming at making a name for himself ahead of a run for a higher seat in government. (Please, no remarks about his last name. It could not be less obvious.)\u00a0 But that’s just me.<\/p>\n

Under the 1st<\/sup> Amendment\u2019s \u201cfree speech\u201d portion, people have a right to dissenting opinions, whether Sheldon likes it or not. So Sheldon is very likely on a roll here to get noticed, probably counting on winning hands down about \u201cclimate change\u201d and making a name for himself.<\/p>\n

Will it work? Oh, probably, yes. People tend to hear what they want to hear and ignore reality because of it. But what happens when the self-aggrandizing, hyper-ambitious Sheldons of the world use that ignorance as a means of climbing to the top of the heap and damaging everyone in their paths along the way? Stalin slaughtered Ukrainian farmers who refused to do his bidding during the Holodomor. He also let Ukrainians starve by the millions by sending their grain to Moscow and satellite Soviet states. There was no one to stop him.<\/p>\n

As the Supreme Court found, in 1961, \u201cTropic of Cancer\u201d may have been nothing but a skanky porn novel written for cash and nothing else. It did become a best seller, but it did\u00a0 not violate the 1st<\/sup> Amendment at all. \u201cNo redeeming value\u201d was a phrase coined to prevent the publication in this country of that novel and others like it, and it did not work. \u201cTropic of Cancer\u201d was, therefore, a valid sales item and Henry Miller continued to write porn novels for money, and nonfiction as well. Frankly, I have some of his nonfiction which is far better than his fiction. But that’s just my view.<\/p>\n

Therefore, in something like this, Sheldon may not like or agree with or accept the differing opinions of other people, including science peeps with valid work to back up their opposing views and findings, but he does not have the right to shut them down. If it is his goal to do so, he is likely to face more than just resistance to his intentions.<\/p>\n

I see nothing but an opportunity which he will pursue to line his pockets and self-aggrandize his image into the public eye so that when the next elections roll around, he\u2019ll be Da Man. Will we have more riots in the cities, this time over a non-existent threat that the Greenbeaners and ecohippies are insisting will end all life on this planet? It’s possible, but you’d have to ask why, when spring, summer and fall are the most pleasant times of the year, they have to act like a pack of dimwitted doorknobs.<\/p>\n

I can only wish the best for Sheldon, and by “the best”, I mean finding his car stuck in a ditch in the middle of a blinding snowstorm, with a phone that’s gone dead, a car battery that has frozen, and snow piled up in windblown drifts up to 8 feet high. I’ve been through that myself (no the dead phones back then), and having to walk through road-closing snow drifts in the middle of a fierce blizzard is not my idea of a really, really bad time.<\/p>\n

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