This from House of Dumb is short, sweet and to the point.

Personally, I think ‘hate speech’ is a ludicrous concept – and, yes, some speech can encourage crazy people to do crazy things, but the operative word here is crazy! Some people think God is speaking to them via the weather forecast, that’s not an argument for censoring the Met Office.

Well said there. There are lots of people out there who are a bit ‘not all there’ who will do stupid things or believe that the cans of peas on the supermarket shelf are out to get them and telling them to do stupid things. But that doesn’t mean we should have our lives and freedoms curtailed just because of a few crazies.