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Freedom of Speech is Settling In for a
Long, Bleak Winter
Michael Dorstewitz
NEWSMAX
January 14, 2021
Now that Democrats have secured, by fair
means or foul, the White House and both
chambers of Congress, they’re calling on
social media platforms to silence
conservative thought.
The public square is no longer a soap box
placed in a park — it’s gone digital. And
for all intents and purposes, Facebook and
Twitter have a monopoly of who may set
their personal soapbox on their platform,
as well as tell them what they may or may
not say.
Shortly after the brief takeover and
violence on Capitol Hill Wednesday,
Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat blocked
the president of the United States —
Donald Trump — as though he were
personally responsible for the mayhem.
This wasn’t the first time Trump was
silenced by social media. In August
Twitter temporarily blocked his campaign
account for posting a video of the
president stating during an interview that
children are "virtually immune" from
getting COVID-19.
Charges Dropped Against Christian
Pastor Arrested at Mall of America
By Anthony
Gockowski The Minnesota Sun March 9, 2019
Ramin Parsa, a Christian pastor who was
arrested at the Mall of America in August
and charged with trespassing, was cleared
of all charges during a court hearing
Thursday.
“Praise the Lord! The prosecution is
suspended, no more criminal charges,
pleaded not guilty. Thank you so much for
your prayers. We have resolved the
criminal case and the city is not going to
prosecute me further, so the city is out
of it,” Parsa wrote on Facebook.
As The Minnesota Sun reported, Parsa runs
Redemptive Love Ministries in Los Angeles,
but visited Minnesota in August. While in
the state, he took a trip to the Mall of
America and ended up in what he has called
a “random” conversation with two Somali
women.
As an ex-Muslim, he spoke with the two
about his conversion to the Christian
faith, and was reported to mall security
by a passersby. He was subsequently
arrested, taken to the basement of the
Mall of America, and charged with
trespassing.
Please read the article in its entirety
at: http://theminnesotasun.com/2019/03/09/charges-dropped-against-christian-pastor-arrested-at-mall-of-america/ https://youtu.be/m6s-JFnw15Q
This ^ ten minute youtube video is
an aid in your understanding, as a
westerner and American, of ISIL, radical
Islam, an enemy of freedom, through the
words of a British Islamist, Anjem
Choudary. His view of Islam upholds the
totalitarian notion that those non-Muslims
and apostates who do not agree with, and
bow to the tenets of his religion should
be killed, and the entire world should be
under the rule of sharia (Muslim) law. He
repeatedly proclaims that the killing of
non-Muslims, is legitimate.
On 6 September 2016, Choudary was
sentenced to five years and six months in
prison for his support for a proscribed
organization ISIS.
Several quotes from that trial:
The judge: “The jury were sure that you
knowingly crossed the line between the
legitimate expression of your own views
and the criminal act of inviting support
for an organisation which was at the time
engaged in appalling acts of terrorism.”
The judge said both men (he and his
acolyte Mohammed Rahman, 33) justified
Isis’s most appalling acts and expressed
contempt for democracy. They had
“encouraged your audience ... to believe
that no one who failed to support the
caliphate established by Isis could be a
true Muslim,” the judge said.
Pam Geller does a fine job (when she has a
chance to speak) of defending the Western
notion that the Lord God created people as
free beings rather than robots, an
inconvenient truth for tyrants and
despots.
To allude to a comic strip, Pogo, from the
1950s to 1970s, We have met the enemy and
this time it isn't us.
When will FCC's recent so
called "net neutrality" regulations
"come home to roost" in your
pocketbook?
Two of the FCC commissioners had a chat
with TechFreedom about the recent long
sought "transparent"
regulations...
According to two
FCC commissioners, those new
regulations are bad all around
By Brad
Matthews Watchdog.org March 4, 2015
The Obama administration and
proponents of the FCC’s version of net
neutrality may be ecstatic at the
passing of regulations that make the
Internet a public utility on Feb.
26th, but not all FCC members are so
sunny in their outlook for the future.
TechFreedom held a fireside chat on
Feb. 27th with two FCC commissioners,
Ajit Pai and Mike O’Rielly, and the
two of them concurred that the new
regulations are far-reaching, largely
unchecked and pose a threat to
consumer bills and to innovation in
the industry. Click
here to read more of article
Houston Subpoenas Pastors’ Sermons in
Gay Rights Ordinance Case
By Sarah Pulliam
Bailey Religion News Service October 15, 2014
Evangelical
leaders are angry after city officials
in Houston subpoenaed sermons given by
local pastors who oppose an equal rights
ordinance that provides protections to
the LGBT community....
An Arizona-based religious liberty
group, Alliance Defending Freedom, has
filed a motion on behalf of the pastors
seeking to halt the subpoenas. The
ministers call the subpoenas “overbroad,
unduly burdensome, harassing, and
vexatious.” Click
here to read more.
Top Senate
Democrat: DOJ action against AP
‘inexcusable’
By Chris Moody,
Yahoo News, Tue, May 14, 2013
While the White House remains quiet
about whether the Justice Department was
right to seize the phone records of
Associated Press reporters, on Capitol
Hill the top Democrat in the Senate was
unequivocal about his opposition.
When
the government demands silence -- the
ugliness of the Patriot Act
By
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
Published
March
21, 2013
FoxNews.com
In 1798, when John Adams was president
of the United States,
the feds enacted four pieces of
legislation called the Alien and
Sedition Acts. One of these laws made it
a federal crime to publish any false,
scandalous or malicious writing -- even
if true -- about the president or the
federal government, notwithstanding the
guarantee of free speech in the First
Amendment.
The feds used these laws to torment
their adversaries in the press and even
successfully prosecuted a congressman
who heavily criticized the president.
Then-Vice President Thomas Jefferson
vowed that if he became president, these
abominable laws would expire. He did,
and they did, but this became a lesson
for future generations: The guarantees
of personal freedom in the Constitution
are only as valuable and reliable as is
the fidelity to the Constitution of
those to whom we have entrusted it for
safekeeping.
Canada
law would forbid homeschoolers to
teach the Bible
by Joel McDurmon on
Feb 28, 2012
For those who would like a snapshot of
where liberalism and Statism lead, they
need only look to our northern neighbor
Canada.
LifeSiteNews.com reports on Alberta’s
new proposed law forbidding even
homeschoolers from teaching what the
Bible plainly says:
Under Alberta’s new Education Act,
homeschoolers and faith-based schools
will not be permitted to teach that
homosexual acts are sinful as part of
their academic program, says the
spokesperson for Education Minister
Thomas Lukaszuk.
“Whatever the nature of schooling –
homeschool, private school, Catholic
school – we do not tolerate disrespect
for differences,” Donna McColl,
Lukaszuk’s assistant director of
communications, told LifeSiteNews on
Wednesday evening.
“You can affirm the family’s ideology
in your family life, you just can’t do
it as part of your educational study and
instruction,” she added.
WND Exclusive Verdict! Christians
convict pastor for 'giving out Bibles'
$300 fine, 1
year probation, ordered to stay 1,000
feet away from scene of his 'offense'
Posted: September 01,
2011
By Bob Unruh
The pastor of a Wichita, Kan., church
who has spoken on public streets against
homosexuality, the influence of abortion
interests in his state and other
biblical issues says he has been
convicted on charges related to his
decision to hand out Bibles at a Muslim
mosque – in a courtroom staffed and
filled with Christians.
The counts against Pastor Mark Holick
of Spirit One Christian Center, known as
the church "without walls," technically
were two counts of loitering and one
count of disrupting a business.
Officials
in Winchester, Va., will alter their
noise ordinance and adjust its
enforcement following a First Amendment
lawsuit against city procedures that
censored speech that might annoy some
people, according to a legal team
fighting the battle.
The
city agreed to revise the challenged
provisions, halt enforcement until the
changes are made and pay undisclosed
monetary damages and attorney's fees,
according to today's announcement from
the Rutherford Institute.
It is
still legal to tell the truth in the
Netherlands: Geert Wilders has
been cleared. Wilders is the
leader of the third-largest party in
that country, and the protagonist in the
largest Islamic challenge yet to the
Western notion of the freedom of
speech. He made a number of
statements about Islam that, while
entirely true and accurate, got him
hauled into court on charges of
“inciting hatred,” and the Netherlands
came quite close to criminalizing the
speaking of unpleasant truths. But
Wilders was acquitted last week, and
this bullet was dodged. Challenges
to the freedom of speech, however, are
still very much with us, and will only
grow more virulent. Click here to
read more of this article
By Bill
Vidonic PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, June 21,
2011
The solicitor for Pittsburgh Public
Schools says a U.S. Supreme Court ruling
that a former eastern Pennsylvania
police chief couldn't claim free speech
in a private employment matter was a
sound one.
"I think it represents a common-sense
distinction between getting up at a
public meeting and saying, 'I'm an
employee, I live here, and taxes are too
high,' which are matters of general
concern, and work-related speech," Ira
Weiss said of the decision Monday.
An attorney for the British government
has reaffirmed the United Kingdom's
decision to ban leading talk-radio host
Michael Savage from entry.
WND reported last July the new
Conservative-Party-led government of
Prime Minister David Cameron informed
the popular nationally syndicated host
it would continue the ban initiated by
the previous administration unless he
repudiated statements made on his
broadcasts that were deemed a threat to
public security. The U.K., however, has
never specified which statements it
thought were so dangerous.
As WND reported in May 2009,
then–British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith
announced that Savage was on a list of
16 people banned from entry because the
government believed their views might
provoke violence. Smith said it was
"important that people understand the
sorts of values and sorts of standards
that we have here, the fact that it's a
privilege to come and the sort of things
that mean you won't be welcome in this
country."
In the latest communiqué from the
British government, Michael Atkins,
writing on behalf of the U.K.'s treasury
solicitor, told Savage's London-based
attorney, "Your client has not provided
any evidence to show that he did not
commit the unacceptable behaviour" that
prompted the "decision to exclude him,
nor has your client provided any
acceptable evidence to show his
repudiation of those unacceptable
behaviours."
Atkins said Savage can do nothing at
the moment to affect his status and must
wait until December, when the decision
is scheduled for review.
Responding to the lastest
development, Savage pointed to Cameron
and President Obama, during his current
trip to the U.K., comparing themselves
with President Reagan and Prime Minister
Thatcher, "blathering about 'democracy'
in the Arab world."
"How about democracy in the
U.K.?" asked Savage, referring to his
case. "The freedom to a trial? The
freedom of appeal? The freedom to set
the record straight?
"Why does the Cameron government
protect Muslim terrorists and Muslim
hate-preachers who espouse the overthrow
of the British government, democracy
itself, while banning Michael Savage
from entering the land of their better
forefathers?" he asked.
Savage has received support from Reps.
Allen West, R-Fla., and John Culberson,
R-Texas, who sent letters to Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton, urging her to
review Britain's ban.
As WND reported, West's letter pointed
out Savage was put on the U.K.'s
banned-entry list with "ruthless
criminals," including a Hamas terrorist
and Russian skinhead.
West argued there is no basis for the
action.
"For a nation who believes in freedom
of speech and press," he wrote, "I have
a hard time understanding why such a
high level, government department would
release this statement when there has
not been one incident recorded in the
United States regarding Dr. Savage
instigating violence, let alone serious
criminal acts."
Culberson, the assistant Republican
whip, urged Clinton to use her position
to press the U.K. to grant Savage a
travel visa immediately.
Official U.K. government correspondence
shows Savage was put on the list to
provide "balance," because it contained
so many Muslim extremists.
"Those who
would give up essential Liberty, to
purchase a little temporary Safety,
deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."(Benjamin
Franklin)
Oh, but it’s only the freedom of
speech. Shame on our British cousins!
And woe to those in our government who
follow closely behind them. This article
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