CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - 48-year-old Jason Brown was arrested Tuesday for violating state law when he hung banners with Nazi messaging off an I-4 overpass. As of Wednesday afternoon he remains in …
You don’t want law enforcement having access to arbitrary laws that they selectively enforce to achieve imprisonment, because they can selectively enforce them for their own agenda, which may not be to fight Nazis in the future.
We need laws to imprison hate speech specifically.
Yes, it matters why. Because if it’s arbitrary, they can arrest anyone they feel like at any time.
Sorry, let me be more clear: does it matter which crime he’s arrested for, as long as he’s put in jail for at least one of them?
Yes. It matters. That’s my point.
You don’t want law enforcement having access to arbitrary laws that they selectively enforce to achieve imprisonment, because they can selectively enforce them for their own agenda, which may not be to fight Nazis in the future.
We need laws to imprison hate speech specifically.
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