Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights

MrKevvy writes "The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has found that federal hate-speech legislation violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the equivalent of the US Constitution's Bill of Rights. This decision exonerates Marc Lemire, webmaster of FreedomSite.org, but may have farther-reaching consequences and serve as precedent for future complaints of hate-speech."

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In a perfect world, this happens:

[Anonymous Coward]

Uber die Schelde die Maas und den Rhein,

stiessen die Panzer nach Frankreich hinein,

Husaren des Fuhrers im schwarzen Gewand

so haben sie Frankreich im Sturm überrannt

Es rasseln die Ketten, es drÃhnt der Motor

Panzer rollen in Afrika Korps,

Panzer rollen in Afrika vor!

Heiss uber Afrikas Boden die Sonne glüht

Unsere Panzermotoren singen ihr Lied

Deutsche Panzer im Sonnenbrand

stehen im Kampf gegen Engeland

Es rasseln die Ketten, es drÃhnt der Motor

Panzer rollen in Afrika vor

Panzer des Führers ihr Britten habt acht

Die sind zu eurer Vernichtung erdacht

Sie furchten vor Tod und

vor Teufel sich nicht

an ihnen der britische Hochmut zerbricht

Es rasseln die Ketten, es drohnt der Motor

Panzer rollen in Afrika korps,

Panzer rollen in Afrika vor!

Oh the Irony!

[MobyDisk]

I clicked the link to FreedomSite.Org, but they block it here at the office. (Yes, I know, that isn't censorship since it isn't the government - I'm lucky they let me browse Slashdot at all)

Re:"Hate" speech is Free Speech

[ground.zero.612]

You keep using that word, fascist. I do not think it means what you think it means. Aside from that, I'd like to extend a great big FUCK YOU ASSHAT, for a number of reasons that I will attempt to enlighten you on:

1) You out yourself on one side of a political fence while simultaneously insulting the other.

- I find this typical of people that skew themselves to their polar opposites; rather than attempt to reach a mutually beneficial agreement (even when that is to agree to disagree).

2) You dance dangerously close to the Godwin line with your rhetoric. So let me cross it for you.

- Republicans are fascist? Really? Do I need to present you with a list of the recent Democrat leaders with deep ties to American Corporatism? Or would it just be easier to completely Godwin and say, "I guess that makes Democrats the Gestapo."

3) Churchill is a fat, limey bastard.

- That fat limey bastard did more for the entire world than, most probably, your entire ancestral lineage dating back to the dark ages. You should probably have a bit of gratitude, after all, you made your post in English.