Chapter 4 In practice, by positing that the current political discourse threatens the existence of Ghana's democratic dispensation, political elites, being the securitizing actors, have the responsibility to adopt extraordinary measures to protect and consolidate the survival of the present democratic process. The 19 20 use of Section 207 and 208(1) of Ghana's 2003 Criminal Code (Amendment), Act 646, to prosecute persons found culpable of using insults and language that denigrates others could be one of the major ways in which speech could be securitized to sanitize the political discourse and prevent politicians from inciting their followers to violent acts. Also, since there is no clear-cut legislation for hate speech, vitriolic language and politics of insult, in the long term parliament must focus on enacting laws to deal specifically with the issue. When offenders are prosecuted, the issue of politics of insults, for instance, can be moved from the arena of ordinary politicking into the purview of 'crisis' politics where it can be dealt with quickly with exceptional political measures. Incidentally, political elites and governments have an overwhelming influence on other actors when it comes to the execution of extraordinary measures in dealing with a language that has the propensity to incite violence(Columba and Vaughan-Williams, 2010). The question then is, how does one prevent every issue from becoming a security issue? Emmers(2007) posits that the Copenhagen School 21 provides a whole spectrum along which issues within society could be outlined. He further states that an issue could be non-politicized, 19 The section states that“Any person who in any public place or at any public meeting uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to provoke a breach of peace or where-by a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour”. 20 The section states“that any person who publishes or reproduces any statement, rumour or report which is likely to cause fear and alarm to the public or disturb the public peace, knowing or having reason to believe that the statement, rumour or report is false is guilty of a misdemeanour”. 21 The Copenhagen School of is an academic school of thought that highlights the social aspects of security studies and is championed by international relations theorists such as Barry Buzan, Ole Wæver and Jaap de Wilde 105