Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost View Post
The incitement laws strike me as simply a further codification of the age-old breach of the peace power, clarifying what is permissible in relation to some new societal groups. I don't much like these laws, but primarily because they arise from this very source, instead of a constitutional bill of rights. Such a bill should give a clear right to all, rather than piecemeal, narrow descriptions that diminish the principle through quibbling.
i'd be happy to see a british bill of rights that provides a clear right to all of free speech, it would indeed be an improvement over the victim-group mentality that presides today.

but regardless, i can accept a incitement to violence law but not a incitement to hatred law.

regarding my rose tinted spectacles; i really don't believe things were so much better when you could give a peasant a damned good thrashing, but i have read isiah berlin's "two concepts of liberty" and firmly lean towards the view that this kind of nonsense is a pernicious infringement of personal liberty, whose 'benefit' in no way compensates for the ill it creates.

contempt.