Anti Semitic Native Leader Ahenakew dead at 76.

[Mr.Canada]

I can't speak for the other guy, but I was busy having a life. Something you may want to consider.

Not one of my "flock" and besides, he had his own lawyers to defend him.

Do you mean like the Magna Carta or something?

I thought for sure you'd be here telling us how the white man made him do it. Seems to be your answer to everything else that ails the red man.

I've been wrong before, once.

[Guest American Woman]

The problem with Ahenakew is that he made his comments while in a position of power and influence which could be seen as an incitant. It was right to charge him and send him through the system to sort it out.

I agree that it was right to charge/try him. I had to read what he said, as well as the law, a few times in order to understand why what he said wasn't considered "hate speech" under the law.

[jbg]

I agree that it was right to charge/try him. I had to read what he said, as well as the law, a few times in order to understand why what he said wasn't considered "hate speech" under the law.

I'm a member of the alleged "victim group" of Ahenekaw's rantings. I do not think it was O.K. to charge him with anything other than gross stupidity.

[ToadBrother]

I agree that it was right to charge/try him. I had to read what he said, as well as the law, a few times in order to understand why what he said wasn't considered "hate speech" under the law.

It's hard for me to approve of charging a man for speaking, even when the words are ugly and evil, and yet feel that I live in a free society. I find the idea of hate speech laws to be an anathema in any society where free speech is a valued liberty. He was a hateful old man, which seems to me to be a much greater punishment than anything the judiciary could level at him.