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Will Politically Incorrect Opinion Become a Hate Crime?
by Selwyn Duke
The New American
February 7, 2010
https://www.legal-project.org/646/will-politically-incorrect-opinion-become-a-hate
Excerpt:
Many of us have heard about Geert Wilders, the Dutch parliamentarian currently on trial in Holland because he criticized Islam. It's shocking to many that you could be charged with a hate crime for expressing an opinion, but such prosecutions are not unheard of in the Western world beyond American shores. After all, most nations have nothing tantamount to our First Amendment. But could such a thing happen in the land of the (mostly) free as well?
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