In America, there is no such thing as ‘hate speech.’
We have an unalienable right to free expression.
Tyrants aim to stifle disagreeable voices and advance their own agendas.
That is precisely what occurred in Switzerland.
A Swiss court condemned a writer and pundit to jail for 60 days for referring to a journalist as a “fat lesbian.”
The LGBTQ+ community celebrates the court’s decision.
“French-Swiss polemicist Alain Bonnet, who goes by Alain Soral, was sentenced by the Lausanne court for the crimes of defamation, discrimination and incitement to hatred after he criticized Catherine Macherel, a journalist for Swiss newspapers Tribune de Geneve and 24 Heures,” Fox News reports.
A contentious Facebook video from two years ago has resurfaced, allegedly containing Soral’s “hateful” sentiments.
According to Fox News:
“This court decision is an important moment for justice and rights of LGBTQI people in Switzerland,” said Murial Waeger, co-director of a lesbian activist group. “The conviction of Alain Soral is a strong signal that homophobic hatred cannot be tolerated in our society.”
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Soral was not only sentenced to prison, but he was also ordered to pay thousands of Swiss francs in legal fees and fines.
According to Swiss broadcaster RTS, Soral was convicted for calling Macherel a “fat lesbian” and disparaging her work as a “queer activist,” as well as accusing her of being “unhinged” in a video uploaded on social media.
Pascal Junod, a lawyer, openly condemned the conviction for a “crime of opinion” in a caustic email to The Associated Press. He claimed that the case was an attempt to determine whether someone had violated the rigorous beliefs of conformity.
Americans are fearful that the court’s decision would lead to the employment of authoritarian tactics in the United States.
Their first objective is to silence the opposition.
The authoritarians will take a mile if we give them an inch.
The fight to safeguard our inalienable rights never stops.
NBC News went on to say:
Soral’s lawyer wants to file an appeal with the Swiss federal court and, if necessary, with the European Court of Human Rights.
According to Waeger, Switzerland’s trailblazing move to criminalize discrimination based on sexual orientation has reached a historic milestone. This decision is a big step forward in implementing the measure, which Swiss voters adopted in 2020.
Soral was convicted and sentenced to prison in France in 2019 for denying the Holocaust, which is a criminal in France.
