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first-name | support | top-reason | message |
|---|---|---|---|
Petronella | No I do not | penalties or orders | All the above money making schemes |
Rista-Mari | No I do not | the offence of hate speech | |
Martin | No I do not | the offence of hate speech | |
Juliana | No I do not | the offence of hate crime | |
Michiel | No I do not | the offence of hate speech | |
Carole | No I do not | Other | |
Frances | No I do not | definitions | What is hate speech???? Define it before you introduce anything. Freedom of speech is my constitutional right. I want to speak freely within the bounds of my religion and not be jailed because of woke agendas. |
Frederick TR | No I do not | Other | I oppose the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill [B9B – 2018], for the following reasons: From a religious perspective I am concerned that the Bill violates our constitutional rights as religious persons simply exercising our rights to be Christian without fear of punishment or persecution (section 15, read with section 16). Just expressing our beliefs as we read it in the bible is becoming unacceptable or politically incorrect. The free expression of being able to practice your beliefs as a Christian are already impinged upon in schools and in many other areas within society. The non-specific nature of definitions such as “harm” (in Clause 1); and “hatred” (in Clause 1), and the definition of, purported crime of “hate speech” (in Clause 4). I am concerned that much of this could result in good well meaning actions being construed as crimes for which harsh and unreasonable sentence is proposed. There is already enough contained within our constitution and regulations to avoid this over reaching action that would unnecessarily criminalise people and just lead to further and greater harms than they supposedly intend to reduce. This could never be policed fairly or even at all. There is more than enough that we have in place to prevent this. We should much rather be looking at helping our people change behaviour through positive programmes like mentoring and role models. This law only raises the spectre of further conflict and hate and potential for misuse. It is totally unnecessary and there are many more positive avenues to achieve better outcomes. There are already sufficient existing laws dealing with “hate speech”. For all of the above reasons, I strongly oppose this Bill which I believe to be unconstitutional and unnecessary. We could and there are many of us who would be happy to help institute programmes that would have a far more positive and far reaching outcome than this punitive process. Always been proven to be a poor approach to solving a supposed problem. |
gulzar | No I do not | Other | |
Jill | No I do not | schedule to the Bill, |