“Journalists, commentators, activists, artists, performers and all those who cherish our tradition of freedom of speech and support peaceful, lawful change have nothing to fear from the existing law, nor from this legislation.”

Surely, fears come from applying the law rather than legislating the causes.

David Boaz and I are agreed on some issues, and disagree on others, but as I see in this particular forum, he turns enemies into friends with his overriding love of humanity, and belief in God, which he and I agree on. I AM NOT A SUPPOTER OF xxx PORN, however I am also not a supporter of restrictive laws, and thus whilst I not condone XXX I support the freedom of people to have access to it, or most other interests in life. If you don't believe in God's law, David and I certainly are not able to force you to. I am a radical Christian, whilst David is more conservative, I don't always agree with David's opinion, but one thing noone can attack him on is his sincerety, and compassion. Some people on this site seem to believe that people of different faiths, circumstances and opinions cannot possibly be friendly to each other, David has proven this philosophy to be untrue. Christians tend to help others, and understand the point of view of others, even if they don't agree. I have never been so informed since I joined this forum, and read so many differing opinions, if anyone follows David Boaz from issue to issue, as I have, you may not agree with him all the time, but you have to have respect for the man that he is, you are a good man David Boaz.

Just another politician yelling into the void. l think most people understand that talk is cheap and when it comes to politicians talk is positively worthless. Their actions speak for themselves.

Thanks Pol. E. Tician for keeping yourself busy and earning your pay packet. Gotta be seen to be doing something. More words and wax seals for people to ignore. Long live civil disobedience. PC has taught people how to fly below the radar and keep their opinions to themselves... and deeply ingraining those opinions. Actually, thank god for the internet, where you can say whatever you want with fear of retribution from the contrl freaky thought police... as long as you use proxies, firewalls and various other means to cover your internet arse.

Cheers big ears.

By the way, you cant protect something that is already dead.

trade 215, How beautifully said, I agree wholeheartedly, and without firewalls and such to protect me, we lost free speech long, long ago.

Free speech? A free cheese in a mouse tap only.