hHoch3 schrieb am 16.11.2024 10:58:
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uh my starting point when it comes to
the consideration of any issue relating
to free speech is my passionate belief
that the second most precious thing in
life is the right to express yourself freely
the most precious thing in life I think
is food in your mouth
and the third most precious is a roof
over your head
but a fixture for me in the number two
slot is free expression just below the
need to sustain life itself
that is because I have enjoyed free
expression in this country all my professional life
and fully expect to continue to do so
personally I suspect highly unlikely to
be arrested for whatever laws exist to
contain free expression because of the
undoubtedly privileged position that is
afforded to those of a high public profile
so my concerns are less for myself and
more for those more vulnerable because
of their lower profile
like the man arrested in Oxford for
calling a police horse gay or the
teenager arrested for calling the Church
of Scientology a cult
or the cafe owner arrested for
displaying passages from the Bible on a TV screen
when I heard of some of these more
ludicrous offenses and charges I
remember that I had been here before in
a fictional context
I once did a show called not the nine
o'clock news some years ago and we did a
sketch where Griff Reese Jones played
Constable Savage a manifestly racist
police officer to whom I as his station
Commander is giving a dressing down for
arresting a black man on a whole string
of ridiculous trumped-up and ludicrous
challenges the charges for which
Constable Savage arrested Mr Winston
cadogo of 55 Mercer Road with these
walking on the cracks in the pavement
walking in a loud shirt in a built up
area during the hours of darkness and
one of my favorites walking around all
over the place
he was also arrested for urinating in a
public convenience
and looking at me in a funny way
who would have thought that we would end
up with a law that would allow life to
imitate art so exactly
I read somewhere a defender of the
status quo claiming that the fact that
the gay horse Case was dropped after the
arrested man refused to pay the uh to
pay the fine and that the Scientology
case was also dropped at some point
during the court process was proof that
the law was working well
ignoring the fact that the only reason
these cases were dropped was because of
the publicity that they had attracted
police sensed that ridicule was just
around the corner and withdrew their actions
but what about the thousands of other
cases that did not enjoy the oxygen of
publicity that weren't quite ludicrous
enough to attract media attention
even for those actions that were
withdrawn people were arrested
questioned taken to court and then
released you know that isn't a law
working properly
that is censoriousness of the most
intimidating kind guaranteed to have as
Lord dear says the chilling effect on
free expression and free protest
parliament's joint committee on human
rights summarized as you may know this
whole issue very well by saying
while arresting a protester for using
threatening or abusive speech May
depending on the circumstances be a
proportionate response we do not think
that language or behavior that is merely
insulting should ever be criminalized in this way
the clear problem with the outlawing of
insult is that too many things can be
interpreted as such
criticism is easily construed as
unsolved by certain parties ridicule
easily construed as insult sarcasm
unfavorable comparison merely stating an
alternative point of view to the
Orthodoxy can be interpreted as insult
and because so many things can be
interpreted as insulted it's hardly
surprising that so many things have been
as the examples I talked about earlier show
although the law under discussion has
been on the statute book for over 25
years it is indicative of a culture
that has taken hold of the programs of
successive governments that with the
reasonable and well-intentioned ambition
to contain obnoxious elements in society
has created a society of an
extraordinarily authoritarian and controlling nature
that is what you might call the new intolerance
a new but intense desire to gag
uncomfortable voices of descent
I am not intolerant so many people so
many softly spoken Highly Educated
liberal-minded people I'm only
intolerant of intolerance
and people tend to nod sagely and say
well yes wise words wise words and yet
if you think about this supposedly
inarguable statement for longer than
five seconds you realize that all it is
advocating is the replacement of one
kind of intolerance with another
which to me doesn't represent any kind
of progress at all
underlying prejudices injustices or
resentments are not addressed
by arresting people they are addressed
by the issues being aired argued and
dealt with preferably outside the legal process
for me the best way to increase society's
resistance to insulting or offensive
speech is to allow a lot more of it as
with childhood diseases you can better
resist those germs to which you have
been exposed we need to build our
immunity to taking offense so that we
can deal with the issues that perfectly
Justified criticism can raise
our priority should be to deal with the
message not the messenger
as President Obama said in an address to
the United Nations only a month or so
ago laudable efforts to restrict speech
can become a tool to silence critics or
oppress minorities
the strongest weapon against hateful
speech is not repression it is more speech
and that's the essence of my thesis more speech
if we want a robust Society we need more
robust dialogue and that must include
the right to insult or to offend
and as even if as Lord dear says you
know the freedom to be inoffensive is no Freedom at all
the repeal of this word in this Clause
will be only a small step but it will I
hope be a critical one in what should be
a longer term project to pause and
slowly rewind the creeping culture of
sensoriousness it is a small Skirmish in
the battle in my opinion to deal with
what sir Salman Rushdie refers to as the outrage
industry self-appointed Arbiters of the public
good encouraging media stoked outrage to
which the police feel under terrible pressure to react
a newspaper Rings up Scotland yards
someone has said something slightly
insulting on Twitter about someone who
we think a National Treasure what are
you going to do about it
the police panic and they Scrabble
around and then grasp the most
inappropriate Lifeline of all
Section 5 of the public order act that
thing where you can arrest anybody for
saying anything that might be construed
by anyone else as insulting you know
they don't seem to need a real victim
they need only to make the Judgment that
somebody could have been offended if
they had heard or read what has been
said the most ludicrous degree of latitude
the storms that surround Twitter and
Facebook comment have raised some
fascinating issues about Free Speech
which we haven't really yet come to terms with
firstly that we all have to take
responsibility for what we say which is
quite a good lesson to learn
but secondly we've learned how
appallingly prickly and intolerant
Society has become of even the mildest adverse
comment the law should not be aiding and
abetting this new intolerance
Free Speech can only suffer if the law
prevents us from dealing with its consequences
I offer my wholehearted support to the
reform Section 5 campaign thank you very much
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