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June 16, 2009

Round Up the Wing Nuts for Our Safety?

I’m feeling a bit unsettled about the comfort people seem to have developed with the idea that some people have a right to determine what sort of thoughts and beliefs are appropriate for other people to have. A couple of incidents over the last few days have me concerned:

Example 1: Megan Fox said she would try to bargain with Megatron to save the world, saying, “instead of the entire planet, can you just take out all of the white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super bible-beating people in Middle America?"

Example 2: Bonnie Erbe of the Thomas Jefferson Street blog, thinks it is time to ban hate speech and “round up hate-promoters now, before any more Holocaust Museum attacks.”

Obviously, whether right or left, hate breeds more hate, and sooner or later, if you hate loudly enough and long enough, some idiot will feel that he or she has been called by God to do something about it. But we need to ask ourselves whether we want an America in which we can be rounded up for having an unpopular opinion, even if we have not acted upon it.

Posted by Becky at June 16, 2009 12:34 PM