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by Alan M. Dershowitz
• December 28, 2014 at 1:30 am
As I watched, with tears in my eyes, the funeral of police officer
Rafael Ramos who was ambushed along with fellow officer, Wenjian Liu, in
revenge for the deaths of two black young men who were killed by
policemen, I could not help thinking of the following horrible words
tweeted by a bigoted young woman named Khadijah Lynch, on the day the
police officers were murdered in cold blood, and the day after:
"i have no sympathy for the nypd officers who were murdered
today." (December 20, 2014)
"lmao, all i just really dont have sympathy for the cops who
were shot. i hate this racist f...ing country."(December 21, 2014)
Khadijah Lynch is a Brandeis University junior who at the time she
wrote the tweet was the undergraduate representative in the Brandeis
African and Afro-American studies department.
by Alan M. Dershowitz
• December 27, 2014 at 11:00 pm
North
Korea's actions emulate those of hard-left feminists, radical Muslims,
university administrations, and others who seek to prevent the
publication or distribution of material they deem offensive.
This
alleged "right" to be free from being offended, is, of course,
in direct conflict with the most basic of rights in any democracy: the
right to express views deemed offensive by some, and the corollary right
to hear or see such views.
Citizen
A should not be able to prevent Citizen B from seeing or reading
something that would offend Citizen A if he were required to read or see
it.
We
should begin at home by delegitimizing the efforts of our own citizens to
censor material that they find offensive.
Nobody should be surprised that the dictatorial ruler of North Korea
would want to censor a film that offended him, or even that he would feel
entitled to break the law by threatening reprisals against the offenders.
His actions emulate those of hard-left feminists, radical Muslims,
university administrators, and others who seek to prevent the publication
or distribution of material they deem offensive.
I recall an incident several years ago when radical feminists fired
bullets through the windows of a Harvard Square bookstore to protest its
sale of Playboy Magazine. I also recall being physically threatened by a
group called "Dykes on Bikes" -- a feminist motorcycle gang --
for providing legal representation to alleged pornographers.
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