[lit-ideas] Re: Cartoon Rage vs Freedom of Speech
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 18:41:49 +0000 (GMT)
--- Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> See also Robert Spencer's comments underneath the
> cartoons.
RS>These cartoons are much less offensive than what is
routinely RS>printed in every American newspaper about
presidents, RS>presidential candidates, and other
pols.
That's impossible for me to gauge but I'd be surprised
it it were so. But anyway the US has a First
Amendment (note the "fire in a crowded theater"
exception), European countries have hate speech laws.
NB: the British press, which is unruly and unafraid,
did not reprint the cartoons albeit _The Spectator_
now has.
(It would be frontpagemag, they publish Carol Gould's
mad rants re the inability of Arabs on the Edgware
Road to wear poppies.)
Judy Evans, Cardiff
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