Last week the California State Senate held the second committee hearing in two weeks on "hate speech" couched as "Violent Protests and Police Response." Democrats were once again seeking approval for legislation on thought crimes. This is a dangerous path as countries without a First Amendment have demonstrated. Writer Andrew Sullivan says, "writers and speakers are now routinely hauled into court for hurting someone's feelings or violating some new PC edict. In Canada, it is now a crime to use pronouns that have served the English language well enough for centuries, if you are not careful." This subjective PC speech policing is what California Democrats are also seeking, and particularly those Democrats from Berkeley. Sen. Nancy Skinner, a former Democrat Assemblywoman from Berkeley well-known for her love of gun control laws, now a State Senator, said she wanted to discuss charging much higher fees for those "controversial" speakers who have been invited to speak at UC Berkeley. Sen. Skinner--never one to let the U.S. Constitution to get in the way of her agenda--needs to read up on the First Amendment.

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