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Occasionally I stop by & check to see what my ole friends here at the DnD have been up to. Today, I looked for the ole man of Orange.....RJHowie......We were usually at each other in verbal fisticuffs.....me being an IRA man & he being a Northern Ireland Orange supporter.
That said, all in all, despite our major differences, I still respected RJ as more than a formidable battler, but as friends here who just didn't see it the same way......we respectfully agreed to disagree.
I did a search on a few related bits of information I knew about him, & I came up with some new information that, sad as it is, it is the reason I'm here to share with you all today.
Robert (Bob) Howie
Published on 27/05/2022
HOWIE - Robert (Bob) Peacefully, at The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital on Wednesday 18th May 2022. Bob, loved and loving husband of the late Christine, much loved Dad of Susan and Jill and a wonderful adored grandpa to Debbie, Laura, Sophie and Lewis. Funeral service will be held at Linn Crematorium, Wednesday 15th June 2022 at 11am. Family flowers only please. Donations, in lieu, to The Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice.
RJ, you will be missed ............. May You Rest in Peace
https://www.heraldscotland.com/memorials/death-notices/death/20169661.robert-bob-howie/
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[glow=black,2,300]Scot Govt: Hate speech ~ In Homes ~
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Source: https://www.christian.org.uk/news/scot-govt-hate-speech-in-homes-must-be-prosecuted/
Scotland’s Justice Minister says he intends to clamp down on hate speech inside the home under his sinister new hate crime Bill.
Free speech campaigners have warned that the Bill leaves out a crucial defence included in other UK hate crime legislation, which protects conversations in the home from police intervention.
However, Humza Yousaf is refusing to provide a “dwelling defence”, insisting that ‘hateful speech’ in the home deserves to be criminalised.
Well-founded concern
The Minister made the comments earlier this week in response to questioning from the Justice Committee, which is tasked with scrutinising the legislation.
Lord Bracadale, the judge whose recommendations led to the Bill, later advised MSPs that they should think carefully about allowing a public order offence to extend into the private sphere.
The Committee’s Convenor asked if the judge would say from his “experience of the operation of criminal law”, that Parliament should “be alert to some danger in that”.
Bracadale responded: “I think that your concern is well-founded”.
Free speech threatened
Last month, the Scottish Government agreed to raise the threshold of the ‘stirring up’ offences from behaviour ‘likely to stir up hatred’ to behaviour ‘intended to stir up hatred’.
The Christian Institute welcomed the Justice Secretary’s willingness to compromise on one of the most controversial parts of the Bill, but warned that many more changes are still required.
This is what happens when there are no affirmed & protected Inalienable "Natural Rights" of the People respected by government.
"Natural Rights" bestowed on all human beings, not by any government, but by their Creator way before governments of man were ever imagined or contemplated by mere mortal beings.
All Speech, even Hate Speech, must be protected.....
Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful.....but, even the thoughts that we hate must be protected, otherwise the phrase "Freedom of Speech" becomes totally meaningless, & if speech of this sort is not permissible, Freedom & Liberty will surely follow.
To even suggest that expressions of thought within the privacy of one's home.....one's castle.....is nothing short of tyrannical....totalitarian.....lest I say.....fascist!
What sez you? 
