WAR ON WORDS CONTINUES

More War on Words. The leader of the British National party was charged with, gasp, four offenses of "using words or behavior intended to or likely to stir up racial hatred." All carefully documented and shown on the BBC, of course. (Big Brother media informants.)

It is the third "C" of politics: Coercion includes the search for public virtue by virtueless politicians and serves up a public indecency, an assault on freedom that is an insult to western values.

The BNP is, no doubt, thuggish and boorish and despicable. But when have words become a crime? Not advocacy of a crime, nor conspiracy to commit a crime, but a crime itself? It becomes a crime when Liberals are unable to educate the public on moral issues because the Liberal credo does not recognize any external moral authority. To do so would be to empower any number of so-called religious groups, and the very last thing Liberals and Socialists want is oversight of any kind. Hence, the pseudo-morality of "hate crimes," the demonstration of Liberal Public Virtue. The only thing missing is the Public Confessional where the guilty can recant and affirm their persecutors and take vows of repentence, which, naturally, will not be accepted, which, after all, is the object lesson to begin with: People are not educable. That is the province of the Rulers Elites who, after all, know better.

If speech that sirs up hatred is a crime, why hasn't Al Sharpton been tried for his inflammatory rhethoric during the Twanya Brawley case? If hate speech is a crime, why haven't gays been arrested for inspiring hatred with their claims that everyone from the Pope to the President to the CIA is responsible for AIDS? Or any speech by Maxine Waters for that matter? Or Muslim Immans who advocate murder in their mosques in London?

It is because hate crimes are selective political persecutions that are intended to validate the virtue of the persecutor, not educate the public, establish a standard of behavior, or even to protect the public safety. They enforce rules that cannot legitimately pass public scrutiny to become consensus. They manufacture consensus by lack of opposition. It's a War on Words. Because after the acceptance that "hate speech" is unacceptable, the Left has precendent to curb speech in general with a publication ban when they want to hide political criminality or an assault on bloggers for exercising their free speech. You cannot have some speech that is "hate" and some that is not. All speech is free or none is.