HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship (Inalienable Rights) by Nadine Strossen

Author:Nadine Strossen [Strossen, Nadine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-04-02T05:00:00+00:00

[A]‌ candidate was arrested for addressing his potential voters. [P]onder that elemental fact. . . . [A] candidate was arrested for making a hustings speech . . . I realize that “political arrest” is a strong phrase, but it’s hard to think of any other way to describe a candidate for public office being taken into police custody because of objections to the content of his pitch.

Netherlands: Member of Parliament Convicted Because of Question He Asked at Political Rally

Dutch Member of Parliament Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right Party for Freedom, repeatedly has been prosecuted and tried under Dutch “hate speech” laws, but he was not convicted until December 2016. A lawyer for some of the complainants touted a unique feature of this ruling, which many supporters of liberty and democracy would hardly view as cause for celebration: it was “the first” judicial ruling “in the Netherlands that there are limits to what even a politician can say” in terms of proscribed viewpoints. The conviction arose from a 2014 political rally during which Wilders posed the following question to the crowd: “Do you want more or fewer Moroccans in this city and in the Netherlands?” In response, the crowd chanted, “Fewer, fewer.”

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