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Man wants ‘No Place for Hate’ sign to come down.
WATERTOWN, MA —
When Ralph Filicchia came across a “No Place for Hate” sign on a pole outside Town Hall, he was, to put it in his own words “offended.”
On Tuesday, he came before the council with a message and a plea to take down the sign and rescind a Town Council proclamation honoring Watertown as a “No Place for Hate” community.
“The proclamation is discriminatory and a violation and infringement upon my civil rights as an American citizen,” he said. “I want the right to speak out without being guilty of a hate crime.”
Within 30 days he wants the sign gone, and the proclamation taken back.
And if it doesn’t happen?
“We might have a problem,” he told the council.
According to Filicchia, a retired Bellevue Road resident and freelance writer, the “No Place for Hate Committee” is a “radical organization” that decides for the town what to do and say when it comes to encouraging diversity and promoting multiculturalism.
“That’s just not going to happen,” he said. “…As far as I’m concerned, I wouldn’t care if 75 percent of the residents in Watertown were red-headed Irishmen named O’Toole. However, it seems that the diversity police might have trouble with that … To me, that’s high-class racism.”
Originally posted by JJay55
Post one of those signs outside every single mosque in the US.
Originally posted by Southern Guardian
Originally posted by JJay55
Post one of those signs outside every single mosque in the US.
Why? Because every muslim american supposedly hates and acts extreme? We should listen to your own generalization which is part of the ignorance in this nation and do the same? I would not want that sign to be posted in front of every christian church in america because I know many christians who are respectful and tolerant.
SG
Originally posted by FortAnthem
My problem is that "hate" can be very broadly defined.
Originally posted by james420
i really didnt know that people who were going to commit "hate speech" and racism would be stopped with a sign..
oh well, at least we know what we can say and where if we were thinking about it.
Originally posted by JJay55
Until incidents like Ft Hood, Detroit imam shooting and killing an FBI agent, busts in Boston, NYC, Denver all at mosques then maybe there is hate being preached inside along with plans to kill Americans.
I don't think churches make plans inside to go out and kill people, do they?
Originally posted by JJay55
I don't think churches make plans inside to go out and kill people, do they?
Realistically, hate that results in violence needs to stop and there have been more than a handful of incidents involving Islamic mosques in the US.
Originally posted by JJay55
Originally posted by FortAnthem
My problem is that "hate" can be very broadly defined.
from wiki
"Hate crimes (also known as bias-motivated crimes) occur when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her perceived membership in a certain social group, usually defined by racial group, religion, sexual orientation, disability, class, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender, gender identity, or political affiliation.
"Hate crime" generally refers to criminal acts which are seen to have been motivated by hatred of one or more of the listed conditions. Incidents may involve physical assault, damage to property, bullying, harassment, verbal abuse or insults, or offensive graffiti or letters."
Originally posted by FortAnthem
That seems like a pretty broad definition to me; "harassment, verbal abuse or insults" are a crime! C'mon people grow a thick skin. People are too quick to find offence from another's words.
What ever happened to "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me?"