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More speech, not censorship, best antidote for bigotry

Posted: May 11, 2014 at 8:42 am

Published: Saturday, May 10, 2014, 9:00p.m. Updated 12 hours ago

When the NBA banned racist team owner Donald Sterling, some said: What about free speech? Can't a guy say what he thinks anymore?

The answer: Yes, you can. But the free market might punish you. In America today, the market punishes racists aggressively.

This punishment is not censorship. Censorship is something only governments can do. Writers complain that editors censor what they write. But that's not censorship; that's editing.

It's fine if the NBA or any private group wants to censor speech on its own property. People who attend games or work for the NBA agreed to abide by its rules. Likewise, Fox is free to fire me if it doesn't like what I say. That's the market in action, reflecting preferences of owners and customers.

But it's important that government not have the power to silence us. We have lots of companies, colleges and sports leagues. If one orders us to shut up, we can go somewhere else.

But there is only one government and it can take our money and our freedom. All a business can do is refuse to do business with me, causing me to work with someone else. Government can forbid me to do business with anyone at all.

Of course, government never admits it's doing harm. Around the world, when government gets into the censorship business, it claims to be protecting the public. But by punishing those who criticize politicians, it's protecting itself.

That's why it's great that the Framers gave America the First Amendment, a ban on government abridging the freedom of speech. But I wonder if today's young lawyers would approve the First Amendment if it were up for ratification now.

There is a new commandment at colleges today: Thou shalt not hurt others with words. Students are told not to offend. At Wake Forest University, for instance, students cannot post any fliers or messages deemed racist, sexist, profane or derogatory.

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Dewhurst picks up endorsement from Ron Paul, Jerry Patterson – Video

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Dewhurst picks up endorsement from Ron Paul, Jerry Patterson
David Dewhurst picked up a pair of big endorsements ahead of the May 27 runoff election for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor.

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Ron Paul on $1bn Ukraine aid – Video

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Ron Paul on $1bn Ukraine aid
It seems Crimea is not enough. Armed groups are now trying to annex parts of eastern Ukraine to Russia. NATO and the government in Kiev are in no doubt that . Isn #39;t it horrible when other...

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Ron Paul I’m FOR Gun Control! I Wanna Take The Guns From These Bureaucrats Enforcing Feder – Video

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Crysis 3 Post-Human Warrior Episode 13 – Video

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WOOT another Crysis 3 video. Sorry it has been soo long since the last one hope you enjoy it :D.

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Igorot woman activist is new UN Special Rapporteur for indigenous peoples

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InterAksyon.com The online news portal of TV5

BAGUIO CITY The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) confirmed early this week the appointment of an Igorot activist as Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples.

Victoria Lucia Tauli-Corpuz, a member of the Kankanaey tribe of Besao, Mountain Province, was appointed by the president of the UN Human Rights Council to the post, which she is set to occupy the first week of June this year.

After their organizational meeting, HRC President Ambassador Baudelaine Ndong Ella (Gabon) announced his decision on Tuesday, May 8, at the UN office in Geneva, Switzerland to appoint Tauli-Corpuz and 18 others as members of the UN Special Procedures.

The special procedures are independent human rights experts with mandates to report and advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective. It is a central element of the United Nations human rights machinery and covers all human rights: civil, cultural, economic, political, and social.

These posts (were) recently left vacant by previous mandate holders, added Ndong Ella in a media release at the UN website.

Among the mandates of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples are to promote good practices, including new laws, government programs, and constructive agreements between indigenous peoples and states, to implement international standards concerning the rights of indigenous peoples.

The rapporteur also reports on the overall human rights situations of indigenous peoples in selected countries and addresses specific cases of alleged violations of the rights of indigenous peoples through communications with Governments and others.

In 2001, the predecessor of the HRC then known as Commission on Human Rights decided to appoint in 2001 a Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, as part of the system of thematic Special Procedures, which was then renewed in 2004 and in 2007.

Tauli-Corpuz will take over the post to be left vacant by outgoing Special Rapporteur on indigenous rights Prof. James Anaya, an American Indian.

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