Just when Mother Nature pulled the earthquake in Haiti and puts the world to task to help the millions in need, bin Laden makes a speech warning there will be more attacks on the USA. We find that issues that were raised during the election about ACORN being doing bad things, were made up by a new Watergate-type group. Our Fox media outlet allows its talking heads to promote violence when the Revolutionists are just waiting in the wings to take action.
Posted by Joshua Holland at 3:20 pm January 25, 2010
ACORN Smear Journalist Arrested for Alleged Attempt to Bug Sen. Mary Landrieu’s Office
"James O’Keefe, the young right-wing activist who posed as a pimp to “break” the ACORN “scandal,” has been arrested by the FBI, along with three alleged accomplices, for attempting to bug the New Orleans offices of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)." Read the whole article here. Modern technology has made violating personal phones and security easy. However, this atrocious act was so stupidly done, the perpetrators got caught. One has to wonder how many smarter criminals do the same and don't get caught.
Posted by allisonkilkenny at 7:14 am January 26, 2010 Schlock Jock Glenn Beck’s Hate Media She writes: "Hysterical demagogue Glenn Beck continued his verbal assault against Progressives this week by calling them “a virus” that feeds “on the host of the Republic, and in this case, the Democratic Party.”
Of course, this isn’t the first time Beck has used this hate speech against Progressives. Media Matters has done an excellent job documenting the venom consistently spewed by Fox’s newest ratings darling." for the whole article, click here.
Our citizens endure poverty, joblessness, hunger, lack of medical care...and the list could go on. We have the presumed news channels fostering hate mongering and violence. What is wrong with our people who enjoy this kind of hate from Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck...primarily on one network!!!??? This says nothing about radio which isn't commented on too much on TV.
Is this really what the Free Speech Amendment was meant to allow? The First Amendment was adopted on 12/15/1791. Like the Bible, that was a world that could not conceive of the issues of 2010. Even little used books get revised. Isn't it time we tried to bring the world functioning up to date and stop allowing those who resist change to stop movement forward?
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There have been periods throughout this country's history where First Amendment rights have been curtailed. During most of these periods, it was the Progressives who most championed the cause of free speech. And with good reason: most of these attempts to circumvent our speech rights did serious harm to the progressive movement.
The Comstock Act was passed to prevent rude, offensive speech. Among the people jailed for violating this act were early feminists such as Moses Harman and Margaret and William Sanger. The Espionage Act of 1917, passed with the urging of the "progressive" president Woodrow Wilson, was supposed to halt extreme anti-war speech. One of the most famous people imprisoned for violating this act was progressive heroes Eugene V. Debs (for advocating non-violent resistance to the World War) and poet E. E. Cummings (for expressing his lack of hatred for the Germans).
The reason why these censorship movements tend to focus on the reformers is obvious: their speech is more likely to make the establishment uncomfortable. And if we give the establishment the power to silence, the temptation to use that power becomes irresistible.
Thus, progressives wishing to jettison the first amendment should be careful what they wish for. Any government with the power to silence Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly also has the power to silence Michael Moore and Noam Chomshky.
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