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This is the dawning of the Age of Mockery, apparently.

 Muslims protest 'age of mockery' as thousands descend on Google HQ - Telegraph.

I applaud the stance of Google and its subsidiary YouTube in response to the demands of the mob outside their offices in London yesterday. I worry that their stance might be less tough if they were headquartered anywhere but in the United States, where the constitution strongly protects free speech. Or for that matter if Google had not been founded by a Russian who knows from family experience what totalitarianism feels like. If Google were run by woolly-minded Old Etonians with more manners than ethics, who knows how it might have reacted?

Of course I respect the rights of primitive and backward people with no concept of the importance of free speech to call for films to be banned. All I ask from them in return is that they respect my right to call them primitive and backward for doing so, without whingeing about "hate speech" or (ludicrously) equating my stance with "terrorism." I can't help but be ashamed of them when they are my fellow citizens however. Nor can I help being even more ashamed of the fellow-member of the legal profession speaking for them. How did such a sorry creature ever obtain admission to the Bar?

Most of all though I am worried that my country's constitution does not protect such vital rights. They can be so easily lost at any time by politicians pandering to such people. Politicians, perhaps, with more manners - or more ideology - than ethics.

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Moggsy

I was curious when people started behaving crazy over that movie, So I googled it and watched it. I never saw a more badly acted lot of nonsense. It was so bad it was like a pathetic joke. I would have been deeply embarrassed to have made it, not because it might offend anyone, just because it was embarrassingly bad. Also the dialog sounded like it was written by someone on something and made as much sense.

I thought after, How could they have expected anyone to take it seriously? Why on earth are these people getting so upset? No one but a fool would take it seriously. I mean really.

It might even have made me more sympathetic to Islam… except for the way Moslems reacted to it all over does the opposite, especially once I knew what they were actually getting so excited by.

If someone were to make a movie like that about Jesus I can’t imagine anyone who was actually mentally stable would take it seriously, or give it much thought. I certainly can’t imagine anyone who had real faith and having it shaken. You have got to wonder about anyone who would get so fired up

I do really wonder how many of these people “protesting” and making threats can actually have watched it. It’s like… they don’t think for themselves.

I think the movie was pathetic .. and honestly, I can’t think any better of the protesters. Free speech, even garbage, needs to be allowed if we want any liberty and it needs to be protected against the likes of people who would get so affronted over something so pathetic.

Oh and BoratBrat... Why don't you make a movie about it? ^_^

Borat Brat

Mankind's abuse at the hand of the zionist filth goes back much farther than 1400 yrs. That lying filth and their fraud, usuary and weazeldom are finished? As is they tyranny of 'anti-semitic' control game and their quest to rule the world.

Just kiddin' ! LOLOL! wink, wink !!xoxoxo- tee hee ?!?!?

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JimS

We are led to believe that Jimmy Savile abused young girls for decades. It is claimed that he was physically too powerful and too well thought of by the good and great to be challenged at the time.

Isn't it time to break the 1400 years of abuse by and in the name of someone else too powerful to challenge?

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