Friday, November 04, 2005

What Institutionalised PC Will Get You


From an article talking about radical Islamic imams in Australia preaching jihad in their mosques comes this passage:
Under expanded sedition provisions, people face up to seven years' jail for promoting feelings of ill will or hostility between different groups so as to threaten the peace, order and government of the commonwealth. This would include urging another person to engage in conduct that supports an organisation or country at war with Australia.
Sedition isn't much mentioned any more in America, but still it occured to me how many on the Democratic Left would likely see laws like this -- outlawing speech upsetting to groups so as to promote social harmony -- as pretty reasonable.

C'mon all you left H-B readers, leaving out the sedition part, wouldn't you see a law like this as a good thing?

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