Brickbat: Extreme Reaction

Richard Gunion / Dreamstime.com

The European Court of Human Rights has upheld injunctions against a German pro-life activist barring him from referring to the abortions performed by some doctors as "aggravated murder" and comparing them to the Holocaust. The court said his remarks could incite "hatred and aggression" and the injunctions are "necessary in a democratic society"

Comments

[Pebar]

Won't people ever learn?
The US is the ONLY country with free speech.

[perlchpr]

And that, for only as long as we actually fight to keep it.

[Oli]

Unless your speech is obscene, inflammatory, inflicting emotional distress &c.

[Radioactive]

or we don' like what you're saying

[loveconstitution1789]

Protected.

[gaoxiaen]

Which is almost any joke on Facebook. I'm using Gab more and more these days.

[loveconstitution1789]

Those categories of speech are still protected in the USA.

[Oli]

nah https://goo.gl/qh34vP

[loveconstitution1789]

Yup

[Rat on a train]

It ruled that, while the injunctions did limit his freedom of expression, they were "necessary in a democratic collectivist society".

[Mickey Rat]

The German state has never really gotten the hang of being a free society.

[Rat on a train]

You are not truly free if someone can still upset you with their words.

[gaoxiaen]

+1 R Lee Ermy

[loveconstitution1789]

Yup. Socialists using gov to silence dissent.

Been done before. For Germany, Hitler did exactly that.

[perlchpr]

First it was illegal to deny the holocaust. Now it's illegal to acknowledge one. Mmmmmm, irony.

[Drave Robber]

It's still legal to stay silent... well, on most issues.

[loveconstitution1789]

In the USA only.

[Fist of Etiquette]

It ruled that, while the injunctions did limit his freedom of expression, they were "necessary in a democratic society".

You know who else sacrificed individuals for the supposed good of the whole?

[MatthewSlyfield]

Caligula?

[Drave Robber]

Maya priests?

[Rat on a train]

Twitter?

[Oli]

http://retiary.org/misc_pages/....._wars.html ?

[Jerryskids]

Omelet makers?

[Adans smith]

Some guy with a moustache? It's always a guy with a moustache.

[Rat on a train]

Groucho Marx?

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Rollie Fingers?

[loveconstitution1789]

Stossel, decades back?

[BigT]

Snidely Whiplash?

[loveconstitution1789]

Yosemite Sam?

[sarcasmic]

Tom Selleck?

[Drave Robber]

Claude Monet, Rue de Montorgueil?

[SQRLSY One]

The DEA, FDA, FBI, ATF, KGB, & STASI?

[Libertymike]

The ACLU, the SPLC, the ADL, AIPAC, BLM, Antifa, Mattress Girl, and the #me too Mafia.

[Fuck you, Shikha (Nunya)]

Wives everywhere?

[loveconstitution1789]

God?

[Radioactive]

Dog?

[loveconstitution1789]

Ogd?

[loveconstitution1789]

FDR, interning Japanese-Americans?

[sarcasmic]

Supreme Dalek?

[Griffin3]

Spock?

[loveconstitution1789]

The Democratic Party?

[loveconstitution1789]

The EU?

[gaoxiaen]

Montezuma?

[Kivlor]

Babylonian priests?
Talmudic jews?
Nero?

[Wizard4169]

Every collectivist mofo ever?

[BigT]

This ruling inspires "hatred and aggression".

[Rich]

Just a doggone minute, there, T. Are you comparing this ruling to the Holocaust?!

[Radioactive]

literally Hitler?

[Rat on a train]

Just literary Hitler.

[sarcasmic]

Why am I the only sour cherry on the fruit stand?

[sarcasmic]

whoops

[loveconstitution1789]

Not as good as Buck Cherry.

[Kivlor]

Some day we will finally be rid of Moloch worship, and put an end to human sacrifice. Some day.

[Radioactive]

Tohil says "NEVER"

[gaoxiaen]

No more long pig? I has a sad.

[Mickey Rat]

It is almost as if the logic of abortion is morally corrosive in society and is the "right" that eats all other rights.

[Duelles]

A democracy can stifle anyone it wishes. So happy to live in a democratic Constitutional Republic with rights for the minority even when or especially when the majority happens to be a bunch of political hacks and their appointed minions.

[Brandybuck]

Sticks and stone may break my bones, but words will really maim me!

[Will Nonya]

Sure, it may be necessary in a democratic society. But not in a free one.

[Longtobefree]

It will be interesting when Muslims start protesting abortion on religious grounds. The EU will not know which way to cave.

[loveconstitution1789]

France always just unilaterally gives up and lets the conqueror march in the shade.