On the free speech front:
The liberals in congress want to take that away too. Keep the masses uneducated about them and they’ll keep swallowing the MSMs bullshit hook, line and sinker. They just proved it in this last election. As long as the media is in the Democrat tank, the Democrats will own the country. No dissent, no opposite view point, perpetual dynasty.
You fuckers that vote Democrat better wake the fuck up. They are your rights as well that these morons are after.
Be Like Mike: Defend Free Expression
by Diana West
This week’s column is an open letter to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Dear Mayor Bloomberg,
Last week, in the presence of Dutch dignitaries visiting New York City to mark the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s remarkable first voyage on behalf of the Dutch East India Co. to “Nieu Amsterdam” (New York), you spoke of the need to safeguard freedom of expression. “Of course, I do not appreciate everything I hear,” you said, according to a translated report from the Amsterdam newspaper De Telegraaf. “But when you start restricting that, you step on a slippery slope. Before you know it, you can no longer say what you want.”
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You can sign a petition against the “Fairness Doctrine” over at WND as well:
PETITION TO BLOCK CONGRESSIONAL
ATTACKS ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND PRESS
Stimulus to ban religious worship
‘This isn’t like a convenient oversight, this is intentional’
President Obama’s proposed economic stimulus plan makes a deliberate – and unconstitutional – attempt to censor religious speech and worship on school campuses across the nation, according to a lawyer who argued related cases before the U.S. Supreme Court 20 years ago and won them all.
“This isn’t like a convenient oversight. This is intentional. This legislation pokes its finger in the eyes of people who hold religious beliefs,” Jay Sekulow, chief of the American Center for Law and Justice, told WND today.
His was the organization that decades ago argued on behalf of speech freedom on school campuses, winning repeatedly at the U.S. Supreme Court. Since then, the 2001 Good News Club v. Milford Central School District decision was added, clarifying that restricting religious speech within the context of public shared-use facilities is unconstitutional.
The problem in the proposed stimulus bill comes from a provision that states: “PROHIBITED USES OF FUNDS. – No funds awarded under this section may be used for – (C) modernization, renovation, or repair of facilities – (i) used for sectarian instruction, religious worship, or a school or department of divinity; or (ii) in which a substantial portion of the functions of the facilities are subsumed in a religious mission.”
The wording that specifically targets religious speech already has been approved by the majority Democrats in the U.S. House – all GOP members opposed it. In the Senate, Jim DeMint, R-S.C., proposed an amendment to eliminate it, but again majority Democrats decided to keep the provision targeting religious instruction and activities.
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