Words of Wisdm from Robin Williams

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Re: Words of Wisdm from Robin Williams

@Mamaof3

I for one make every attempt to enlighten people of this type if I encounter them. What’s being done in England - enacting laws against preaching hatred - well, I do see it as a restriction on freedom of speech. But really its a step in the right direction.

BTW, I received these comments in an email with the title “Words of wisdom from robin williams” and I should not really have named the thread the same…but really, the majority of amrikans would say “yeah man!!” to the whole thing. Thats why I said “sad but true”.

2 points to make.

1. I don’t believe that either myself, or most of the conservative minded political guppies here believe this to be “sad but true”. We’d believe it to be “true”, but certainly not “sad”. “Joyous”, perhaps.
   As I said, I for one would welcome such meaures to be taken because it would offer the best chance in a long time to be able to create a new Islamic order to fill the vacuum left by the withdrawal of US meddling. Indeed, the steps would be such a politico-economic disaster for the USA that they may well end up enabling such a new Islamic order to quickly rival or even surpass the USA in power. We would view this as being a Good Thing.

2. Freedom of speech must be curtailed in some circumstances. Whilst the new law in the UK is one good example, another one would be how promoting Nazi ideology is a criminal offence in Germany too.