Posts by James Dunne
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Hard News: We need to talk about Len, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
I love this idea so much I want Parliament to pass an Act of Attainder against everyone opposed to it.
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Legal Beagle: Think it possible that you…, in reply to Mark Hubbard,
Yes, the plan was literally to push the advertisers into having Willie and JT killed. Or at the very least to have their tongues taken out.
That's what you're saying, right? Because nobody could be so obtuse as to seriously claim that "not getting a radio show" is the same as "lost their freedom of speech", surely.
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If I go across to TV3 and ask them to give me a job as a television presenter hosting the Holocaust Denial Power Hour and they tell me to go away, is this:
(a) A reasonable decision by a broadcaster who does not want to broadcast the Holocaust Denial Power Hour because nobody would watch it, nobody would advertise during it, and they don't want to be associated with vile and reprehensible views;
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(b) A alarming infringement on my right to say whatever I want on whatever platform I see fit?
Answers on a postcard to...etc
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I'm afraid I don't see that 'freedom of expression' includes the right to be continue to be employed as a talkback radio host. Nor does it include, for that matter, the right to have my books stocked in bookstores or my films screened in theatres. Willie and JT haven't been silenced - they have lost their jobs, which is not at all the same thing.
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Somebody will probably put it to the test sooner or later: there is an argument that the wording of section 9 of the Psychoactive Substances Act leaves space for a controlled drug analogue that is not one of the analogues specifically set out in the schedules to the Act to be approved.
And if you could convince the Authority to approve it would become an approved product which would be very definitely not a controlled drug for the reasons set out above.
But it would be fiendishly difficult in the interim since you'd have to comply with the licensing requirements under the Psychoactive Substances Act _and_ the Misuse of Drugs Act to deal with the stuff, assuming licenses were forthcoming.
One suspects that the simpler course, given the wide world of pharmacology, might just be to pick something else.