[FireFly]

If you talk loud enough and long enough, people are going to listen. If you talk about hatred in this same manner to people who cannot think for themselves, you're going to teach them to hate. Isn't that how the Holocaust started in the first place? However, in a day and age where we have already witnessed such atrocities, it is much harder to get anyone to listen to what you are saying and believe in your cause. In this case, the 'other side' is talking just as loud and just as long and has more evidence to back up their argument. It's a person's right to believe whatever they want, (all of a sudden this sounds like a debate on religion with Cheese... funny how that works out, isn't it?) to say whatever they want, to discuss whatever they want. It is not until they act on those feelings that a potential crime is committed, depending on the action.

In how many years of spewing his garbage has he actually garnered a large number of supporters? How many hate crimes are acted out because of the things he says? He's been at this for what, 30 years? You'd think that if what he was doing was going to incite people into random acts of violence, we'd have heard of this violence long before now... and if there is such violence, then those individual acts are treated as such. There are many forms of abuse, one of which is purely mental. However, in this case, and in any case of using freedom of speech for hate purposes, there is no mental abuse towards those who are being hated... a person's worth is not judged by the colour of their skin or their religious affiliations, and I'm pretty certain the majority of the population have gotten that message by now. Those who haven't will be left behind while the rest of humankind evolves.