In Reply to: Re: The Stockholm Syndrome posted by Joseph on September 24, 2003 at 05:30:27:
Joseph,
Thank you for pointing out the danger of turning controversial speech into a "hate crime." I'm relieved to see that some of us understand the difference between thoughts, speech, writing versus real acts of violence.
Actor Tom Cruise (sadly a member of the church of Scientology, by the way) played in a recent movie about people being charged with crimes they hadn't yet comitted. If Big-brother ever developed a way to "read" our thoughts, and this "hate speech" thing were taken to its logical extreme, they would be arresting people for thinking hate thoughts. FGeorge Orwell may have been right...it just took a few more years for it to become reality.