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WashPo: 'Free Speech Makes It Difficult to Prosecute White Supremacy'
« on: August 11, 2019, 04:07:02 pm »
WashPo: 'Free Speech Makes It Difficult to Prosecute White Supremacy'
Chris Menahan
 
Aug. 09, 2019
 

The Washington Post lamented Thursday that the First Amendment makes it difficult to prosecute "white supremacists" for their political beliefs.

From The Washington Post, "Why free speech makes it difficult to prosecute white supremacy in America":

    Federal authorities have used RICO many times to prosecute white prison gangs, but what got the members of organizations such as the Aryan Brotherhood locked up under the statute was not the racism they believed but the acts they committed: crimes including drug trafficking, murder, kidnapping and money laundering.

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Re: WashPo: 'Free Speech Makes It Difficult to Prosecute White Supremacy'
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2019, 04:37:32 pm »
It’s free speech that lets the Washington Post print such nonsense

And I wouldn’t have it any other way
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Re: WashPo: 'Free Speech Makes It Difficult to Prosecute White Supremacy'
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2019, 04:39:41 pm »
That pesky 1st amendment.  Damn those racist founders.
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« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2019, 04:54:14 pm »
"Democracy dies in darkness"
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« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2019, 05:09:28 pm »
It may make it harder to prosecute them for their political beliefs, but it usually makes it easier to prosecute them for their illegal actions because they tend to blab about what they’ve done, and their own words are usually the best evidence against them when they’re tried for crimes, as opposed to political beliefs.
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« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2019, 01:07:11 am »
The danger, for those who hold freedom as the highest ideal, is not the ideas [they] espouse but the power they seek. Let them rant their heads off---that is their right, which we cannot afford to infringe---but let us keep from them the political means of depriving everybody else of the same right.---Frank Chodorov.
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« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2019, 01:41:29 am »
Quote from: EasyAce on August 12, 2019, 01:07:11 am
The danger, for those who hold freedom as the highest ideal, is not the ideas [they] espouse but the power they seek. Let them rant their heads off---that is their right, which we cannot afford to infringe---but let us keep from them the political means of depriving everybody else of the same right.---Frank Chodorov.

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