Re: OT: "Free speech" becomes a verb & noun...

On 2/1/2025 2:04 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:

On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:43:15 -0500, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
wrote:
 

"A designated terrorist organization" sounds a lot like "It's different
when WE do it".  Nazis bragged about killing 6 million Jews, for fuck's
sake.  Yet they should've been allowed to march, as our better selves
now recognize.  There was no important element back then that isn't here
now.  Trump is punishing these students for their speech, once again
leveraging populist spleen to flout bedrock American principles.  I
can't fathom any free-speech advocate's support of this.

 Again - what is being discussed here is not the rights of US citizens
but resident aliens. The two are not the same.

Well, I think they are, at least to the extent we regard freedom of speech as a basic human right.

The Canadian government recently prevented a "Caliphate" conference in
the Metro Toronto area - they weren't heavy handed but they did
enforce security conditions that caused the organizers to cancel it.
 Note that this conference was about extending Muslim rule world wide -
it was not merely support for HAMAS and/or Gaza.
 https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/hizb-ut-tahrir-canada
 (Note that the Canadian group was closely affiliated with the UK group
mentioned in the headline)

I'll guess that the proposed means of "extending Muslim rule" drifted into violent fatwas against the Great Satan.