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August 12, 2005

Free Speech or a Free Trip Out of the Country?

Here's Steve Chapman on Tony Blair's latest project: "deportation for any non-citizen who is guilty of 'fostering hatred' or 'justifying or validating ... violence' or 'glorifying terrorism.'" Chapman says it's "a net that will catch minnows as well as sharks" and punishes free speech.

Meanwhile, "America's Truth Detector," Rush Limbaugh, wants to apply the same policy at home, extending it to anyone who disagrees with the U.S. government, at least while Republicans are in charge of it:

We just had Stephen Breyer saying, oh, yeah, totally appropriate, we must import what they're doing around the world in other democracies, it will help buttress their attempt to establish the rule of law, and we might learn something, too. Well, here's something I'd like to import. I'd like to import the ability that the Brits are doing to export and deport a bunch of hate-rhetoric filled mullahs and imams that are stoking American sentiment. Wouldn't it be great if anybody who speaks out against this country to kick them out of the country? Anybody that threatens this country, kick 'em out. We'd get rid of Michael Moore, we'd get rid of half the Democratic Party if we would just import that law. That would be fabulous, the Supreme Court ought to look into this. Absolutely brilliant idea out there.

Posted by Mike Tennant at August 12, 2005 10:14 AM

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Posted by: Charles Hueter at August 12, 2005 05:03 PM

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