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Free speech under threat: a case study in double standards : Comments
By Graham Preston, published 25/9/2014What would you think if police were to arrest a person who was peacefully standing on a public footpath in Australia while holding a sign quoting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
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In English common law, incitement and harassment are illegal.
Your group and you wish to have protection for your harassment of women who are going to an abortion facility. Harassment is an offense even if you call it free speech. You have many avenues to express your opposition to abortion. Your article that I am commenting on is one of the ways. Free speech is not absolute. If your expression becomes harassment then your expression is a criminal offense under common law. What you want is not free speech but the right to harass women.