The Legal Project's Snyder Speaks in Denmark; Turner Speaks on Ezra Levant's The Source

Please take a moment to visit and log in at the subscriber area, and submit your city & country location. We will use this information in future to invite you to any events that we organize in your area. LP FELLOW ANN SNYDER SPEAKS AT CONFERENCE IN DENMARK: FREE SPEECH IN EUROPE AND AMERICA: CAN WE LEARN ANYTHING FROM THE AMERICANS? COPENHAGEN, DENMARK NOVEMBER 5, 2011 The event was organized by The Free Press Society and moderated by Lars Hedegaard, historian, journalist, and founder of The Free Press Society. Speakers at the event were: Douglas Murray (Associate Director, The Henry Jackson Society), whose characteristically witty presentation explored, among other issues, the politically-driven and uneven application of laws punishing speech in Europe; Morten Messerschmidt (Member of the European Parliament), who offered a thoughtful comparison of approaches to free speech protection in Europe and the United States; and Ann Snyder (Fellow at the Legal Project), who offered an American perspective and presented an overview of the First Amendment and free speech in the United States. She explored specifically the state of the law as it pertains to "incitement" and offensive expressive acts to illustrate the United States' especially speech-protective approach and to contrast it to the approach taken in Europe under so-called "hate-speech" provisions. Snyder urged the adoption of stronger protections for free speech in Europe and cautioned that any perceived dangers from opening the doors to free expression were overshadowed by the obvious threat to free society posed by allowing governments to encroach upon an essential human right like freedom of speech. Watch video from the event here. LP STAFF COUNSEL ADAM TURNER APPEARS ON EZRA LEVANT'S THE SOURCE THE SOURCE, SUN TELEVISION CANADA OCTOBER 7, 2011 Legal Project Staff Counsel Adam Turner appeared on Ezra Levant's television program, The Source, on Canada's Sun TV News Channel. In their seven minute discussion segment, titled "No Laughing Matter," the two discussed the threats of physical violence against David Letterman and South Park by Islamist radicals who objected to their (Letterman's and South Park's) speech. Ezra Levant is strong proponent of free speech, who has been hauled into Canadian courts and Canadian Human Rights Tribunals multiple times for his speech. Once, it was for republishing the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten's Muhammad cartoons. He has never been punished for any speech violation, however. Watch the full video here.

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