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Obama Campaign Stifles Free Speech At University Rally
2008-10-01 05:33:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The candidate of change, the shining proponent of a “new way” in national politics, says that you aren’t allowed to bring a sign to his rally. So much for the right of free political speech. To add insult to injury, this rally was held at the publicly funded University of Mary Washington ...
By: Publius Forum
Free Speech Denied to Protestors in Minneapolis-St. Paul During RNC Convent
2008-09-01 00:50:00 Normal 0 false false false /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;- mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} First Amendment right to free speech guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution? Wait a second??Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamned piece of paper!? after all, according to President George W. Bush. But does he speak for the Republican party? News has been leaked via independent media that planned peaceful protests during the Republican Convention this week are being shut down ahead of time, with absurd claims by the police of "violations of fire code,...
By: Tumerica
NOT The ?Shocker? Most Americans Would Believe: Barack Obama Receives Six T
2008-08-15 01:40:00 Shocked, America? If So, The Reason You Are Is Solely Due To To The Fact Political Free Speech In The Military Is Limited To Vocally Supporting The Policies Of The Current... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the latest rantings of a gun toting liberal with a chip on his shoulder... harsh views, comments expressed.
Memphis, Police, and (Not So) Free Speech
2008-07-31 14:00:00 Thanks to Serr8d at TennesseeFree.com. I thought this was pretty interesting. Apparently the Memphis police aren't so big on bloggers, free speech, and criticism. Check it out. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.__________________It seems the ivory tower-dwelling administrators on the 12th floor of the Memphis Police Department have some anonymous (but obviously well-informed) blogger critics. Bloggers who are so actively critical of the upper echelon that they?ve attracted lawyers. These critics have annoyed Police Director Larry Godwin and the city of Memphis so much that they are slap-suing AOL to find out their identities. So they then can take action against them for their critical posts and comments, doubtless by using jack-booted thuggery (and?waterboarding!) . The blog, MPD Enforcer 2.0 is operated by ?Dirk Diggler? (a pseudonym probably covering several co-blogging individuals). MPD Enforcer 2.0 has been up and running since March. Most of the commenters are polic...
In Liberal-Speak, is Some Gay Marriage Advocacy Wingnuttery?
2008-07-17 12:55:00 On Monday, left-wing blogger Joe.My.God labeled it “wingnuttery” when the Campaign for Children and Families urged its supports to boycott McDonald’s because of the corporation’s “support of homosexual ‘marriages’.”- Let’s see a group with a political agenda urges its supporters to boycott a corporation which supports a cause it opposes. Is that wingnuttery or the ...
By: GayPatriot
Free Speech via Journalism Equals Democracy
2008-07-12 19:33:00 Bill Moyers, in his speech to the audience at the National Conference on Media Reform,"Democracy without honest information creates the illusion of popular consent at the same time that it enhances the power of the state and the privileged interests that the state protects. And nothing characterizes corporate media today more than its disdain toward the fragile nature of modern life and its indifference toward the complex social debate required of a free and self-governing people."Journalism can make or break a democracy.In the swirl surrounding the events of September 11, 2001, was there any debate, or simply a lying down and a dogged acceptance of the established line, spoon-fed from the current administration?We desperately need media reform, as some outing of the truth from the perpe-traitors.For more on media reform, see StopBigMedia.com
By: Tumerica
George Carlin - Saving The Planet
2008-06-26 06:25:00 Dan and I both agree this is a fitting GayPatriot tribute to the passing of George Carlin. We are so self-important…. everyone is going to “save” something. The greatest arrogance of all: “Save The Planet”! <…> I’m getting tired of that sh–. I’m tired of f–ing Earth Day. I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists; these white bourgeous liberals ...
By: GayPatriot
Canadian Pastor Punished for Criticizing Gays
2008-06-11 01:06:00 Welcome Ezra Levant Readers! We support your man’s standing up to the Canadian thought police! But, don’t know that I’d call myself a “gay activist.” In the update to my post on the politically correct investigation of an Irish politician’s wife for her intemperate remarks on homosexuality, I linked Mark ...
By: GayPatriot
Ignorant Anti-Gay Ramblings are a Hate Crime?
2008-06-10 02:48:00 While checking pinknews, a European gay news service, I chanced upon a story exposing the Orwellian nature of some Hate Crimes legislation. Just like in Canada, it seems that all it takes for a crime to take place in the United Kingdom is for some person to be offended by someone else’s remarks. ...
By: GayPatriot
Canadian Freethought Group Stands Up For Free Speech of Pro-Life Group
2008-06-08 00:00:00 York University's Freethought/Nontheist group - Freethinkers, Skeptics, and Atheists at York (FreeSAY) - is standing up for the free speech and free assembly rights of Pro-Lifers at the university, following the university's recent banning of pro-life groups. The university is banning these groups because they are anti-choice. Greetings, This is an official ...
Ezra Levant Eats Ian Fine?s Liver For Lunch and Dinner
2008-06-05 14:02:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0q7dCBZ8yEo [Discuss Ezra Levant or other great topics with Right Girl...]
By: Webloggin
Not that France ever had free speech as we understand it?.
2008-06-03 22:21:00 . . . but this is sad: Brigitte Bardot was convicted Tuesday of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France. A Paris court also handed down a $23,325 fine against the former screen siren and animal rights campaigner. The court also ordered Bardot to pay $1,555 in damages to MRAP. Bardot?s lawyer, Francois-Xavier ...
By: Webloggin
Poll: 11% Believe Obama Is Muslim
2008-05-27 06:46:00 I don’t use NewsMax as a source too often, maybe I need to start since all us EVIL Conservatives get our news from NewsMax, FOX and WorldNet Daily… A new Newsweek poll out this weekend shows Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may face serious obstacles in the upcoming general election. Many Americans aren’t even sure of ...
By: TexasFred's
When Free Speech DoesnÂ’t Come Free
2008-05-23 10:41:00 by Remi Kanazi Free speech is not without consequence. In the United States, for example, criticism of Israel is tantamount to heresy. Former US President Jimmy Carter felt a societal backlash last year after the release of his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, which condemned IsraelÂ’s apartheid-style policies in the occupied Palestinian territories. Consequently, and without foundation, Carter was branded by many in the American press as a one-sided, anti-Semitic propagandist. Similarly, Harvard professor Stephen Walt and University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer were lambasted for a paper the two co-authored that discussed the power of the Israel lobby and its adverse effect on American policy. Additionally, Norman Finkelstein, an esteemed professor at Depaul University and author of the bestselling book, The Holocaust Industry, witnessed a McCarthyite-style campaign mounted against him when he came up for tenure. Finkelstein, the son of Holocaus...
YouTube for Democracy
2008-05-23 00:52:00 Its tempting to post my own ‘free speech‘ rant but… “Senator Lieberman stated his belief, in a letter sent today, that all videos mentioning or featuring these groups should be removed from YouTube — even legal nonviolent or non-hate speech videos,” YouTube’s blog post states. “While we respect and understand his views, YouTube encourages free speech ...
Teen Facing Prosecution For Calling Church of Scientology ?Cult?
2008-05-20 20:46:00 Americans do not have any idea how lucky they are to live in a land where freedom of speech is enshrined in the Constitution. More than that, they should resist every ?soft? effort to make speech out of bounds on the grounds that it can hurt someone?s feelings. Absent this constant vigilance to protect our ...
By: Webloggin
On Crystal Dixon & the Problem of ENDA
2008-05-15 07:30:00 Reading the thread to my second post on Crystal Dixon, the University of Toledo administrator fired for saying some un-PC things about gay rights on her own time as well as e-mails from readers who had followed the story solidified my opposition to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), indeed to most legislation which would prevent ...
By: GayPatriot
Outspoken un-PC University Administrator Fired
2008-05-14 01:20:00 Had I not been in a rush yesterday when I posted on Crystal Dixon, the University of Toledo Administrator suspended for saying some politically incorrect things (and expressing some downright crazy notions), I might have learned that she has since been fired for speaking her mind. Last Friday, she “received verbal notification from the University of ...
By: GayPatriot
University Suspends Administrator for Op-Ed on Gay Rights
2008-05-13 02:35:00 Shortly after Crystal Dixon’s Op-Ed taking “great umbrage at the notion that those choosing the homosexual lifestyle are ‘civil rights victims’” appeared in the Toledo Free Press, her employer, the University of Toledo, suspended her with pay from her position as associate vice president of human resources. When the Ohio daily published her opinion piece, ...
By: GayPatriot
International free speech is in jeopardy
2008-05-11 11:34:00 Says the cultural editor of Jyllands-Posten, Flemming Rose, and he is of course quite correct: "These insult laws—blasphemy laws that are intended to protect religious symbols or religious sensibilities—in fact are being used to silence critical voices around the world. I think we have to remove them. I think the only laws that are needed to be kept on the books when it comes to speech are laws that criminalizes incitement to violence." Source Adam Gorlick, "Editor behind Muhammad cartoons says international free speech in jeopardy," Stanford Report, May 14, 2008
By: Bad Thinking
Olympic Committee Grants Free Speech To Athletes
2008-05-10 09:09:00 The Autstralian Olympic Committee has backed down from its previous decision that would prevent its athletes from freely expressing their views at the Olympic Games. The new agreement with athletes states: “Accredited persons at the Games may of course express their opinions on human rights and other such issues…Such expression of opinions and the conduct ...
Good news on free speech
2008-05-09 06:47:00 From The Christian Institute, "The free speech amendment has again been backed by the House of Lords. It will go on the statute book later today.In last night's debate Lord Waddington gave a commanding speech. Labour Peer Lord Clarke spoke powerfully in favour of the amendment as did Lord Armstrong, the former Cabinet Secretary.There was also strong support from Viscount Bledisloe QC and senior Judge, Baroness Butler-Sloss, peers who have both strongly supported gay rights in the past. Lady Falkner of Margravine, a backbench Lib Dem, voiced grave concerns about free speech, although she abstained in the vote.Both the Government and the Liberal Democrat front bench strongly opposed the free speech amendment. All the more astonishing therefore that in the division peers backed the amendment by 178 votes to 164. Some 13 Labour peers defied the Labour Whip. The Bishops of Norwich and Chichester also supported us. It is clear that the Government could not get their own supporters...
By: Christian Quoter
Support Embattled Canadian Blogress Divas!
2008-05-02 19:41:00 Yesterday, Glenn Reynolds encouraged his readers to support a variety of bloggers (instead of himself), notably Michael Yon and Michael Totten who are doing yeoman’s work covering the War against Islamofascism, going to battlefields many in the MSM won’t dare visit or may not even know about. He also recommended supporting embattled Canadian bloggers whom serial ...
By: GayPatriot
Student Republicans Move To Oppose Code Pink
2008-05-01 07:20:00 The plot in Berkeley continues to thicken. The Daily Californian is reporting that a group of students are trying to get the same permits that “Code Pink” currently has. This should be interesting to watch. The Berkeley College Republicans are looking to get the same permit privileges that anti-war group Code Pink use to protest outside the Marine recruiting center in Downtown Berkeley. Working with Councilmember Kriss Worthington, the group is asking for sound waiver permits and a parking spot reservation outside the center on Wednesdays from 12 to 4 p.m., the same time Code Pink protests outside the center, said Kimberly Wagner, activism chair for the Berkeley College Republicans. “(Code Pink’s) claim is that they’re protecting free speech,” she said. “I kind of don’t feel they are, they are inhibiting the recruitment center in general. It’s important that they are not unopposed, that there are people willing to fight them. E...
Hispanic Caucus Tries To Shut Down Lou Dobbs Free Speech Using Threats To C
2008-04-29 06:30:00 The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is furious at CNN for having Lou Dobbs on their network. They are so mad that they are now targeting all of CNN claiming that they are anti-immigrant and following in Dobbs footsteps. It is quite...
By: Diggers Realm
Limits of Free Speech
2008-04-28 20:00:00 I would like to describe an American perspective on free speech in today?s article. In US legal terms, ?freedom of speech? is actually broader than it sounds, really extending to a freedom that applies to all forms of expression. For example, the US Supreme Court has held that laws forbidding burning the US flag are ...
Free Speech Issue In Turkey
2008-04-24 16:41:00 The ongoing debate within Turkey regarding rights of free speech continued with the conviction in a Turkish court of a politician who was accused of inciting hatred and violence. Hilmi Aydogdu as found guilty of threatening public safety after hewarned Turkey against taking any action in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in Iraq. Aydogu, ...
Susan Payne's Free Speech Shut Down Against Casa De Maryland For Sombrero P
2008-04-23 21:21:00 Something is rotten in Maryland and it goes by the name of Delegate Joseph Vallario Jr. Vallario is a supporter of Casa De Maryland a group that supports illegal aliens. Susan Payne is the founder of the Maryland Coalition for...
By: Diggers Realm
The First Martyr For Free Speech
2008-04-20 19:11:00 The Death Of Socrates “The trial and execution of of Socrates in Athens in 399 B.C.E. puzzles historians. Why, in a society enjoying more freedom and democracy than any the world had ever seen, would a seventy-year-old philosopher be put to death for what he was teaching? The puzzle is all the greater because Socrates had ...
By: Bannaga
Rep. Melissa Bean, Another Democrat AGAINST Free Speech
2008-04-18 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston In the devastated country of Zimbabwe the tyrant that runs the place, Robert Mugabe, has an iron fist on the political process. He often won?t allow members of the opposition party to leave their homes much less to go out and campaign for office. When political ...
By: Publius Forum
Enslaved FLDS mothers appeal to Texas governor to help kidnapped children
2008-04-14 14:57:00 "SAN ANGELO, Texas ? The mothers of children removed [kidnapped] from a West Texas polygamist sect's ranch after an abuse allegation are appealing to Gov. Rick Perry for help." And this comment sums the situation up nicely: Tubal wrote: Wow. Baptist ministers* rape teen girls too. Let's go take all the Baptist kids and lock them up. Then when their mothers want to come see them, lets tell them no. Then when the mothers that they rounded up too want to call their loved ones to tell them what's happening, lets take away their cell phones. read more
Schism: A Muslim?s video response to Geert Wilders? anti-Qur?an film Fitna
2008-04-14 06:01:00 Barry Duke of The Freethinker writes: “IT had to happen ? a Saudi man has hit back at films criticising Islam in a Fitna-style video which portrays Christianity as a religion of violence. The film, entitled Schism, was made by Raed al-Saeed. It splices together Bible verses and Iraq war images - including British soldiers beating civilians. Other ...
Kurdish Politician In Turkey Jailed In Free Speech Case
2008-04-11 16:03:00 A court in the city of Diyarbakir sentenced Kurdish poltician Leyla Zana to two years in jail for praising Abduallah Ocalan, jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party(PKK). She was sentecned under a law that penalizes “propaganda of a terrorist organization.” Zana has already spent nearly a generation for working with the PKK. ...
Only In America
2008-04-11 01:00:00 Certainly not in Canada, where we have Human Rights Commissions and Richard Warman suing anyone who invokes him. U.S. free-speech advocates on Tuesday gave their annual ?muzzle? awards to violators including police who charged a woman for swearing at her overflowing toilet, and a motor vehicles department that deemed a ?GETOSAMA? license plate offensive. The Thomas Jefferson ...
By: Webloggin
Office Doors and Free Speech
2008-04-10 15:13:00 There are two types of college professors: those who post cartoons and slogans on their office doors, and those who do not. I fall into the latter category, though I generally have no problem with my colleagues who decorate their academic portals with pithy observations from "Dilbert" or "Ziggy" or even some hack editorial cartoonist. I simply prefer not to have my students know too much about me, other than what I choose to present in class. More important, I don’t want to have crowds milling around my office chattering and otherwise interrupting my deep intellectual reveries ("Why did I draft Pedro MartĂnez when Daisuke was still on the board?").For the most part, office decorations fall safely into First Amendment territory. I say this guardedly, however, since I believe that a college campus is not the equivalent of the public square and that office doors are state property (we're assuming non-private institutions here, since the argument is constitutional). I think it is po...
Turkey?s Article 301 Fails Test Of Free Speech
2008-04-10 09:20:00 Turkey has been attempting to meet demands from the European Union that its constitution respects the right of free speech. A particular source of friction between the EU and the Turish government revolves around the infamous Aricle 301 of the Turkish constitution which makes it a crime to insult “Turkishness.” The government is proposing to ...
US, Europeans say Islamic countries want to limit free speech at the UN
2008-04-09 23:14:00 Finally someone speaks up… GENEVA - The United States, Canada and some European countries said Tuesday that Islamic nations were trying to limit freedom of speech at the UN by trying to make an independent rights expert scrutinize individuals instead of dictatorial regimes. The amendment passed by the UN Human Rights Council in its rush to adjourn ...
Judge Rules Wilders Has Free Speech Rights After All
2008-04-08 03:16:00 Good news for Geert Wilders (via Hot Air) Anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders? comments about the Koran and the prophet Mohammed do not incite hatred or violence against Muslims, a court in Rotterdam ruled on Monday. The judge rejected a case brought the Islamic federation (NIF) saying that Wilders? comments were provocative but did not break the law. ?A ...
By: Pirate's Cove
'Gripe Site' Is Protected Free Speech, Not Defamation
2008-04-02 01:49:00 (an article regarding 'disclaimers' about the type of site - exposure - EOPC is)"The contents of a New Jersey man's "gripe site" -- a 45-page Web site dedicated to the perceived misdeeds of his car insurer -- were protected free speech that did not constitute defamation, a Manhattan judge has ruled."...alleged that Ronald DiGiovanni's site made eight libelous statements about its business, including that it is a "blatantly dishonest company" that has been "running scams," "committing fraud on a grand scale," and "ripping off its contract holders for quite a while..."The court holds that the cause of action for libel ... should be dismissed because the challenged speech is merely a statement of defendant's personal opinion..."...his statements reflect his personal opinion based upon his personal dealings with plaintiff. They're subjective expressions of consumer dissatisfaction [and] are not actionable because they are defendant's personal opinion."(Stick to the truth and be s...
*America Has Only One Free Speech Zone by george Phillies
2008-04-01 11:09:00 George Phillies for President 2008FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*America Has Only One Free Speech Zone*Worcester, Mass, March 31: Libertarian Presidential candidate GeorgePhillies today condemned the use of 'free speech zones' that hidedemonstrators from the press. "The United States has only one freezone, Phillies said. "Our free speech zone is called America. It starts atthe Pacific, crosses shining hills and amber waves of grain to the Atlantic,and extends to wherever Old Glory flies or American citizens stand. Thosewho say otherwise are speaking against our country."In recent years, Presidential candidates have used Federal secret policebodyguards to herd demonstrators away from the press intoso-called 'freespeech zones.' Many of those zones have been cages surrounded by fencing orbarbed wire. Once demonstrators are locked up, candidates can pretend noone disagrees with them, because opponents are out of sight."A candidate who hides from his critics behind lines of barbed wire is acr...
Fitna: Freedom of expression or freedom to insult?
2008-03-29 15:33:00 Calls from countries with a largely Muslim population to ban Geert Wilders film Fitna have fallen on deaf ears in the Netherlands, where freedom of expression is seen as an unassailable right.
Islam and Free Speech
2008-03-26 15:09:00 The Netherlands is bracing for a new round of violence at home and against its embassies in the Middle East. The storm would be caused by “Fitna,” a short film that is scheduled to be released this week. The film, which reportedly includes images of a Quran being burned, was produced by Geert Wilders, a ...
By: 1913 Intel
Europe Struggles to Reconcile Free Speech, Muslim Sensibilities
2008-03-26 10:42:00 France, like the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, is struggling to accommodate its growing Muslim minority without sacrificing principles such as separation of church and state and free speech, which form the heart of a cultural identity forged by Voltaire and other 18th-century philosophers.
Moving My Domains Off of Islamic Censors at Network Solutions
2008-03-25 19:00:00 I was so busy yesterday that I missed the dust up over Network Solutions decision to cave in to the interests of disgruntled Muslims and block the domain that Geert Wilders was planning on using for a 15 minute mini-documentary protesting radical Islam. Thankfully I am a “VIP” customer of Network Solutions and will rectify that ...
By: Webloggin
Some Liberals Will Politicize Any Occasion
2008-03-25 00:41:00 I was delighted that my Friday post, Booing & Shouting: Standard Liberal Discourse? inspired such a spirited discussion though sometimes I wish that those who defended my points would use less colorful language in taking on those who disagreed with me. More often than not, they make some very sound arguments whose points are sometimes obscured ...
By: GayPatriot
130 Dead in Tibet Protests, Leftists in America Still Pine for Communism
2008-03-24 13:35:00 While the leftists in America see fascist and totalitarian boogeymen behind every badge a cop wears, they still call for socialism and communism to take root in America. There is no doubt that the anti-war movement is run by communist sympathizers.
Booing & Shouting: Standard Liberal Discourse?
2008-03-22 01:07:00 In her comment to my post on Michael Lucas, Leah noted that, according to her son at Stanford, when the iconoclastic porn star “spoke at Stanford earlier this year, [he] as booed and shouted down.” Such behavior, booing and shouting down, seems pretty standard behavior for some left-of-center students when speakers come to their campuses (campi?) ...
By: GayPatriot
Russian Protestant and Muslim groups want cartoon channel shutdown for airi
2008-03-19 05:37:00 CBC reports that Russian Protestant and Muslim groups are calling for the shutting down of a Russian cartoon channel, 2X2, for airing programs such as South Park, which these groups have deemed to be anti-religious and to promote homosexuality. 2X2 is standing its ground. A spokesperson responded to the demands by pointing out that Russia is a secular ...
Log Cabin Gets Free Speech Wrong
2008-03-19 04:19:00 In Log Cabin’s release calling on Oklahoma legislator Sally Kern to resign because of her recent remarks, its president Patrick Sammon said, “Free speech doesn’t mean the right to compare law-abiding, tax-paying citizens to terrorists.” Um, Patrick, actually, it does. That’s why it’s called free speech. People are free to say whatever they want, no matter how stupid. And alas, no matter how hateful. Free speech protects the rights of misguided, narrow-minded individuals like Ms. Kern to say whatever she wants even if it makes as little sense as her latest remarks. Just as it protects your right to call on her to resign. Or Rev. Wright’s freedom to spew hateful bile about white Americans. It even protects Andrew Sullivan’s right to call himself a conservative as he verbally swoons over the most liberal member of the United States Senate and backs his candidacy for president of the United States. I agree with Patrick that “O...
By: GayPatriot
Politicizing the Internet ? why net neutrality is not about free speech
2008-03-18 00:00:00 -By Scott Cleland Politicizing the Internet Fabricating a Free Speech Threat to Justify Regulating the Internet and An "Information Commons" American ISPs are facilitating an unprecedented explosion of free speech. More people use the Internet in the U.S. than any other country: ~211 million, per World Internet Stats. The number of blogs is exploding ...
By: Publius Forum
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