Saturday, February 2, 2008

La Raza wants no habla for some

The National Council of La Raza, along with other groups, says it wants to help purge "hate" speech from the debate over immigration on TV and radio.
How do you define "hate"? What about the right to free speech?
La Raza seem to be waving such concerns aside. The head of La Raza said this:
"Ms. Murguia argued that hate speech should not be tolerated, even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment rights:

"Everyone knows there is a line sometimes that can be crossed when it comes to free speech. And when free speech transforms into hate speech, we’ve got to draw that line. And that’s what we’re doing here today. And we need to make sure that network executives will hold their people accountable and not cross that line."