>  Fine, refuse to believe that people are being sanctioned for simply
> expressing their opinion, with absolutely no violence involved.

I'm not refusing to believe it, I just think that in each case there is 
always something more than you are trying to say.  There is no way in this 
world any police officer would even look twice at me if I told him how bad I 
thought the goverment was.  However if I start telling him about how I don't 
believe in the holocaust, or how I want to try and convince everyone to 
become Nazis, or if I start making insulting comments about people or groups 
of people, or if I even swear at him while telling him how stupid I think he 
is, of course that is going to cause trouble and likely get me carted off to 
the police station.  There's a difference, and if you're too dumb to realise 
when you're going to cause trouble by expressing your opinion in such a way 
then that's your own stupid fault for getting arrested or whatever.  Normal 
people don't have this problem.

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