Liberal Lefty has it Right on Hate Speech Laws?

While I had to gag my way through the article, liberal korrectnik, Glenn Greenwald, shows some keen insight with his piece in Salon on Hate Speech laws. Or is it self preservation of "their" message?

Commenting on the lefties in America and their desire to suppress free speech with "Hate Speech" laws, Greenwald points out the liberal left should be careful of what they wish for.... as it may be used against them!

While disgustingly dripping with bias to the left, Greenwald gets his point across very well using Canada's version of the "Hate Speech" law and the effects it had on Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn. Ezra is the man who drew the Mohammad cartoon published in a Danish paper that had extremist muslim jihadikaze's thrilled spitless. Steyn is the author of, America Alone, and had an excerpt from his book quoted in a Canadian magazine.

From Glenn Greenwald at Salon --

Here are the noxious fruits of hate speech laws: a citizen being forced to appear before the Government in order to be interrogated by an agent of the State -- a banal, clerical bureaucrat -- about what opinions he expressed and why he expressed them, upon pain of being punished under the law.

The mere existence of the "investigation," interrogation, and proceeding itself is a grotesque affront to every basic liberty.

If Muslim groups can trigger government investigations due to commentary they find offensive, so, too, can conservative Christian or right-wing Jewish groups, or conservative or neoconservative groups, or any other political faction seeking to restrict and punish speech it dislikes.

Empowering the State to proscribe and punish speech is not only the most dangerous step a society can take -- though it is that -- it's also the most senseless. It never achieves its intended effect of suppressing or eliminating a particular view. More....

I have to give Greenie credit for the use of so many delicious adjectives he uses in describing us terrible conservatives who have ALWAYS been against any Hate Speech laws. But reading the article several times during this post - one thing kept jumping out at me...

I come to this conclusion by the simple fact of how Greenie continually refers back to any proposed Hate Speech laws in the United States can be used by the - "conservative Christian or right-wing Jewish groups, or conservative or neoconservative groups, or any other political faction seeking to restrict and punish speech it dislikes."

Piercing the veil shrouding this argument, one can see clearly - Greenwald is NOT against Hate Speech laws! He is against how any Hate Speech laws may be used to suppress the garbage spewed from the likes of Bill Maher, Michael Moore, George Soros, Rosie O'Donnell, MSM or himself!