Comments on: Changing planes in U.S.? II http://overlawyered.com/2006/07/changing-planes-in-us-ii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=changing-planes-in-us-ii Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 27 May 2012 02:23:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Julian Haley http://overlawyered.com/2006/07/changing-planes-in-us-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-3518 Julian Haley Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:14:15 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3731#comment-3518 I don't think people realize what a chilling effect this could have on the free speech we talk for granted. Here is an example... An American religious leader makes the usual right-wing Christian condemnation of gays and lesbians and it’s caught on video. If that video is broadcast by a US television station and viewed by even one Canadian, or the video is posted on the internet and downloaded by a single person in Canada, that religious leader could be arrested, convicted and even imprisoned under Canada's restrictive hate speech laws if he/she crossed into Canada or even visits a country having an extradition treaty with Canada. The US government should respect the laws of foreign governments and be more concerned with crimes that actually occur within its boarders. I don’t think people realize what a chilling effect this could have on the free speech we talk for granted.

Here is an example…

An American religious leader makes the usual right-wing Christian condemnation of gays and lesbians and it’s caught on video. If that video is broadcast by a US television station and viewed by even one Canadian, or the video is posted on the internet and downloaded by a single person in Canada, that religious leader could be arrested, convicted and even imprisoned under Canada’s restrictive hate speech laws if he/she crossed into Canada or even visits a country having an extradition treaty with Canada.

The US government should respect the laws of foreign governments and be more concerned with crimes that actually occur within its boarders.

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