Posts Tagged ‘Free Speech’

Libraries Are Banning Books Regarding Homosexuality

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

The mandate of most schools is to provide the most information available on a topic to their students, so as to provide a wide range of ideas on any given subject, to ensure the student receives a well rounded and full education (or at least it should be).  In practice however this usually never the case as political correctness, and liberal emotional sensibilities usually get in the way.  This is even more so true when it comes to Leftist pet-projects like Homosexuality.

With the increasing influx of new information, and personal stories, emerging on the reality of homosexuality which goes against the conditioned general understandings, Leftists are finding effective ways of shutting down all debate on the subject, and further ensuring that only their emotional understanding on the concept of homosexuality can be taught or held.  To ensure that no actual debate takes place, and the students aren’t allowed to have a differing opinion on this subject, they are banning books.

Visit most public school libraries and you’ll find an array of books that address the subject of homosexuality. Many include sexually explicit content, and some even include graphic images.

But if you’re looking for a book that refers to the possibility that homosexuality can be “reversed,” a Chicago-based group says your best bet is the banned books list.

Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX) says there’s an entire community of people across the world who say that their sexual orientation changed from gay to straight. But they’re not getting their message out, the group says, because libraries across the country refuse to carry literature that describes these experiences or any studies that support them.

{The Article}

Despite the Left’s claim of being “liberals”, and the vanguard of a liaise fair attitude toward lifestyle choices, and free speech this is rarely the case in reality – especially when it comes to one of their pet racial, class, or gender groups.

Although only the “right-wing Christian Conservatives” get the negative press, and thus bad reputation for “attempting to control society”, and banish any “sin” from the commonplace of ideas it is often the Left who most resembles what the “right-wing” is accused of.  This is simply just another example!

The same Leftists that are so set against a personal story from an actual “ex-homosexual”, have absolutely no problem with providing explicit sexual books to these same students.  Even further exposing the hypocrisy of the Left, it isn’t hard to imagine what the response of the crusaders of political correctness would be if instead the situation was flipped and it was the Right which was attempting to ban books for this explicit sexual nature.

Click Here To See List of Banned Books

So much for intellectual freedom – political correctness is paramount!

Why conservatives should care about the campaign finance reform issue

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

So hot it sizzles. (Well, ok, maybe not….)

I’ve discussed before the fact that the Left is basically a knowledge-control cult. The Left hates the free flow of information. This is why they want to kill talk radio. It’s why they want to hand control of the internet to Obama and some Czar that he gets to appoint without the advice and consent of Congress. This is why they cooked up the idiotic idea of having an email address that the leftist ground troops could use to “snitch” on people who aren’t on board with the Democrats’ efforts to destroy our health care system. Campaign finance reform is just another link in that chain. If the government gets to control the flow of money to political parties, then the government gets to control the flow and direction of political discourse. Wrong ideas? No money.

Ironically, this would serve to actually make the government less responsive to the will of the people, not more so. Think about what it would be like it there was no credible political opposition to the government because it has been defunded, and any independent attempts to get the word out via any type of media are criminalized. Consider where we’d be if the Left got its way, and there was no outlet for the millions of Americans who, for instance, oppose the attempt to impose health care “reform” onto us. You’d have the government “doing something,” but the will of the people — as has been repeatedly expressed through everything from polls to town halls — would be completely shut out. That’s what the Left would like to see happen. That’s why the Democrats and their activist groups are so incensed that conservative groups are allowed to publicly debunk all the lies that the leftists are telling us about their health care plans. With the sort of campaign finance scheme they’d like to see put into place, they’d have free run of the marketplace of ideas by default. However, it would no longer be a marketplace, but an echo chamber. In short, the leftists who want public control of election financing are really angling to see a one-party system established — by their party — if it were possible. And consider how responsive to the will of the people one-party systems usually are, which is to say, not at all.

Some thoughts on restrictions on free speech that might help to explain the psychology of cult leaders like etihwelppA selrahC?

Obama Advocacy Site Calls People Who Oppose Obama “Domestic Terrorists”

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Another day, another new low by the kook-wacko Left.  This time around, a “call for action” issued on the advocacy site Organizing for America, started at the behest of Barack Obama, urges people to “fight back” against our “right-wing domestic terrorists”,

President Obama’s grassroots advocacy group is coming under fire for a supporter who pulled the Sept. 11 attacks into the health care debate. 

The controversy stems from a notice on the Organizing for America Web site urging reform advocates to use the anniversary of the terror attacks to call on lawmakers to pass health care reform. 

“All 50 states are coordinating in this — as we fight back against our own Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists who are subverting the American Democratic process, whipped to a frenzy by their Fox Propaganda Network ceaselessly re-seizing power for their treacherous leaders,” the notice said in part. It has since been scrubbed from the Organizing for America site. 

Following criticism from the conservative Heritage Foundation, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee told FOX News in a statement that anyone can post on the site and condemned the language. 

“We certainly don’t agree with these comments, nor do we condone them, just as I’m sure the Heritage Foundation or FOX don’t agree or condone some of the things posted in sections of their Web site,” the statement said. 

But the Heritage Foundation’s Rory Cooper said the call to action was actively distributed

This was distributed to people in Illinois, Michigan and North Carolina. So yeah, the original posting was just an independent person who went too far. But when Organizing for America took the next step and invited people to the event, they became complicit in the language,” Cooper said. 

Cooper criticized Obama for pushing his message through both the official White House Web site and Organizing for America’s BarackObama.com

It’s interesting, really, to see just how insane the Left becomes when they are challenged.  It sort of puts the gulags and unaccountable “administrative courts” of the Soviet Union into perspective.  That’s the way the Left views things – dissent it patriotic when they do, but its subversive and terrorism when somebody else does it.  Retirees showing up at town halls and giving their ELECTED representatives the business are worse than al-Qaeda.  It’s rather scary that we have an administration willing to allow its name to be put on this kind of rubbish.  It’s rather scary that this administration’s “Green Jobs” Czar is a racist buffoon who thinks 9-11 was a Republican campaign ad.  It’s rather scary that this administration apparent thought it was acceptable to set up a website so people could “snitch” on their neighbours for holding the wrong political viewpoints, 1938-style.  It’s rather scary that this administration has an Attorney General who thinks our own CIA is more of a threat to us than Islamofascist terrorists.  It’s rather scary that we have an administration that is dead set on developing any more energy resources in America, but freely hands out billions to Brazil to develop theirs.  It’s rather scary that we have an administration that is setting up a system for harvesting personal data from social networking sites. 

The crazy is strong with this administration, no doubt about it.

Conservative Kiosk Shut Down at Concord, N.C. Mall

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

This is nothing new to most of us since we already know the only free speech the libs like is when it parrots their socialist positions.

CONCORD, N.C. — “Impeach Obama.”

“Al Qaeda’s favorite days: 9/11/01 and 11/04/08.”

“Work Harder. Obama needs the money.”

The bumper stickers and posters sold at “Free Market Warrior” at Concord Mills are meant to be “biting,” the kiosk’s owner Loren Spivack said.

At least one passerby found them racist and bigoted, and took time to tell the mall in a letter and a letter to the editor of the Charlotte Observer.

Whatever your opinion, the fact is this:  At the end of July, Free Market Warrior will not be allowed at Concord Mills Mall. The kiosk chain’s owner shared e-mail correspondence with NewsChannel 36 that explains that the mall management has decided that the items sold are not “neutral” enough. The lease will be allowed to expire July 31, 2009 without an option to renew.

Spivack, who first leased the space this spring, says the decision came as a shock to him. He says mall management seemed pleased with the kiosk just a few weeks ago.

“Nobody in that mall is selling anything from a conservative perspective. Plenty of people are selling things with a liberal perspective, with a pro-Obama perspective,” he said. “Given that we are in America and not North Korea, we probably should have some stuff on the other side.”

Spivack says he is careful not to sell things that personally attack a politician and wants a fair exchange of ideas. “The material that I sell is about politics and ideas,” he told Newschannel 36. “It’s all legitimate criticism.”

Concord Mills, owned by Simon Property Group, would not comment for this story, cited a policy against talking about tenant and landlord situations.

“I find it appalling that Concord Mills, North Carolina’s #1 visitor attraction, would condone such a message to be portrayed by their vendors and can’t imagine how the outside visitors’ perceptions of North Carolinians have been skewed by such an establishment.

“It’s hard to stay open-minded when such uncivilized and outdated ideas are endorsed on a daily basis. It’s 2009; please, let’s at least try to put this type of bigotry to an end.”

Ibanez told NewsChannel 36 she was so offended, she wrote the mall as well. She says a friend of hers also wrote in. Both threatened not to return to Concord Mills.

The owner of the mall group, Mel Simon, has been a generous contributor to Democratic causes and politicians, including Barack Obama. Spivack thinks the decision about his lease is political.

Read the rest here

The Voice Of The Enemy Within

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Know Your Enemy

(Pacifica Radio – The Mouthpiece Of The Anti-American Alliance)

Pacifica Radio Network




On April 15, 5, 1949. Lew Hill and a staff of four other useful idiots launched the first openly traitorous radio station in the world from (of course) a makeshift Berkeley studio to, among other things, protest U.S. involvement in WW2.

KPFA, Berkeley CA

From their, this resource of propaganda grew as four more cities gained the lies, and exaggerations of Pacifica when local residents created new Pacifica stations around the country:  KPFK in Los Angeles, WBAI in New York City, KPFT in Houston, and WPFW in Washington DC.

Including affiliates,  the Pacifica Network, today, includes approximately 150 stations, that collaborate daily to bring Anti-West radio and subversive media to American citizens.  For approximately 60 years now Pacifica Radio has provided a haven and training ground for Socialist activists and Leftist journalists.   Pacifica has been the vanguard of Nazi, then Socialist, and now Islamist propaganda providing every dictator, terrorist, traitor, and subversize voice a soap box.  Daily this mouthpiece for despotism spreads horribly spun news, and cherry picked historical and political analysis across the United States (and the World).

Pacifica Radio is the encaptulation of everything we complain about here, and everything we fear from the Left.  On every issue, they make sure to come to one conclusion: it is the U.S.’s fault.  At every opportunity possible they work to support those that would weaken, and destroy the United States and the West.  Including providing support for cop killers,  fanning the flames of Anti-Americanism by repeating lies abaout our military and Abu Gharab, spreading propaganda regarding Venezuala, attacking our troops, promoting those who wish to weaken the U.S., attacking American traditions (while supporting America’s enemies), supporting the most extreme cases of Abortion, openly supporting Communism, advocate on behalf of terrorist organizations, are rabidly Anti-Israel, support groups such as the I.S.M., and A.N.S.W.E.R, rail against so-called “US Imperialism“, and act as the mouthpiece for C.A.I.R.

Shockingly, the aforementioned is just an incomplete short list.  I personally listen to Pacifica Radio almost daily and can atest to the fact that what actually takes place on their airwaves is worse than what they document on their websites.  (Every good traitor knows to hide their real intentions when possible).

I have personally heard them call for the destruction of Israel, claim Jews run the media, Government, etc., give support for Terrorists Gaza/Judea Samaria, Venezuela, England, Lebanon, Haiti, and Syria, actively promote a Communist overthrow of the United States, encourage anti American political activity, and blame 9/11 on “the Zionists” and/or Bush etc.  At every step, and at every opportunity, Pacifica works to hamper the safety and security of the United States, and actively gives comfort and assistance to our enemies.  (great link to their programs here)

The treasonous 5th column in the United States has a very active mouthpiece – it is called Pacifica Radio…….and they continue to broadcast across the U.S. as we blog.

(as always I recommend that you don’t just take my word for it, but use the links provided and go to the source and make up your own mind)



Democrats Refuse to Allow Climate Change Skeptic to Testify Alongside Gore At Congressional Hearing

Friday, April 24th, 2009

It seems that the so-called protectors of free speech, open mindedness, difference of opinion, equality, and scientific competition are once again showing their true colors by shamelessly shutting down debate on what they consider the most pressing issue of our time: global warming…eh, I mean Climate Change.

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Washington, DC – UK’s Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, claimed House Democrats have refused to allow him to appear alongside former Vice President Al Gore at a high profile global warming hearing on Friday April 24, 2009 at 10am in Washington. Monckton told Climate Depot that the Democrats rescinded his scheduled joint appearance at the House Energy and Commerce hearing on Friday. Monckton said he was informed that he would not be allowed to testify alongside Gore when his plane landed from England Thursday afternoon.


“The House Democrats don’t want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face,” Monckton told Climate Depot in an exclusive interview. “They are cowards.”


According to Monckton, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), Ranking Member on the Energy & Commerce Committee, had invited him to go head to head with Gore and testify at the hearing on Capitol Hill Friday. But Monckton now says that when his airplane from London landed in the U.S. on Thursday, he was informed that the former Vice-President had “chickened out” and there would be no joint appearance. Gore is scheduled to testify on Friday to the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment’s fourth day of hearings on the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. The hearing will be held in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building.


According to Monckton, House Democrats told the Republican committee staff earlier this week that they would be putting forward an unnamed ‘celebrity’ as their star witness Friday at a multi-panel climate hearing examining the House global warming bill. The “celebrity” witness turned out to be Gore. Monckton said the GOP replied they would respond to the Democrats’ “celebrity” with an unnamed “celebrity” of their own. But Monckton claims that when the Democrats were told who the GOP witness would be, they refused to allow him to testify alongside Gore.


“The Democrats have a lot to learn about the right of free speech under the US Constitution. Congress Henry Waxman’s (D-CA) refusal to expose Al Gore’s sci-fi comedy-horror testimony to proper, independent scrutiny by the House minority reeks of naked fear,” Monckton said from the airport Thursday evening

{The Rest of The Article}

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Related Links:

- 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims
- 35 Inconvenient Truths: The errors in Al Gore’s movie
- Al Gore Challenged to International TV Debate on Global Warming

Muslim fit over ‘Fitna’

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Return To Reason
Ilana Mercer

Muslim fit over ‘Fitna’

For an American politician to address the subject of the national identity and the future of liberal institutions under the current immigration laissez faire is to risk being labeled The Worst Person in the World by MSNBC Doberman, Keith Olbermann.

Prosecution may well follow persecution. As part of his platform, Barack Hussein Obama has also promised to expand the so-called hate crimes statutes, which could result in the criminalization of speech and the prosecution of people for naturally licit actions – for speaking their minds.

Across the pond, in the Netherlands, the sizeable Muslim population (6 percent and growing) has forced the national question to the forefront. The champion of freedom of speech, who regularly storms the ramparts of a decaying, liberal, political establishment, is lawmaker Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom.

The Dutch want to hear Wilders’ message. According to Dutch pollster Maurice de Hond, Wilders “has the most loyal following of all political parties in the Lower House.” The Party for Freedom is the fifth-largest party in the Dutch Parliament, and the third-largest opposition party.

As Wilders knows too well, one of the defining issues of our times is speaking and publishing under the threat of death – death by Muslim migrants. A vexation the West has invited. Those who’ve been following the latest installment in the saga know that Wilders released a film: “Fitna.”

“Fitna” is unremarkable; it’s your basic primer to Islam. The Quran commands the faithful to kill the kafir. Wilders excerpts these Quranic commandments, and shows Muslim believers articulating and acting on them.

Wilders could have easily been neutralized had Muslims across the West, and their puppy-dog proxies, allowed the screening of “Fitna,” and adopted a Western, live-and-let-live stance toward this tradition of benign protest.

But no: Predictably, at least from a cursory reading of the Quran, Muslims went berserk. By so doing, they proved Wilders right: Islam and its fervent adherents are a danger to men and women yearning to breathe free.

Read the rest.

*listens for the sound of exploding lizards*
(thanks Escovado!)

TV crew kicked out of UN free speech event

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

TV crew kicked out of U.N. free speech event

GENEVA – A television production crew was expelled Thursday from a United Nations meeting discussing freedom of expression and defamation of religions.

Two journalists from the French-German cultural channel ARTE were asked to leave a meeting room at the UN’s European headquarters during a public session of a human rights body preparing for a racism conference in South Africa later this year.

The journalists were working on a documentary on how the issue of human rights is debated at the United Nations.

According to a diplomatic source, the expulsion announced by the chairman of the session, Russian representative Yuri Boychenko, was requested by the Organisation of Islamic Conference and by the African group of states.

“It is regrettable that he was not informed of the procedures that allow a public session to become a private one,” Marie Heuze, chief spokeswoman at the UN in Geneva said.

The expulsion took place when the debate was raging on freedom of expression and the defamation of religions, two issues which are proving particularly sensitive in a proposed declaration for the conference in Durban, South Africa.

According to Muslim participants, human rights should take into account defamation of religions, while the Europeans are opposed to its inclusion.

A British delegate said any mention of this concept in the resolution “damages the prospects” of a successful conference in Durban.

According to a diplomatic source, at least three European countries — Britain, Denmark and the Netherlands, have threatened to boycott the conference if the resolution is accepted.

The United States, Canada and Israel have already said they would not attend the event, which is scheduled to take place April 20 to 24.

The earlier 2001 Durban conference on racism, held just a few days before the September 11 attacks on the United States and against the backdrop of the second Palestinian intifada, ended in acrimony amid accusations of anti-Semitism.

Charles throws Geert Wilders under the Bus

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Charles wrote an email to Geert Wilders a while back asking him about his planned alliance with the Vlaams Belang. He hasn’t answered. Now with the Dutch charging him with hate speech, Charles kicks him.

Geert Wilders to Be Charged with Hate Speech in Netherlands

Wilders, however, has called for the Koran to be outlawed. In other words, Wilders wants to ban books with which he doesn’t agree. If there’s one thing we should have learned from history, it’s that book-banning never turns out well—and it’s anathema to the American ideals of free speech and free choice of religion.

This prosecution is disgusting and wrong, but it’s difficult to cast Wilders as an icon of free speech when he explicitly advocates taking away the rights of others.

Charles has now turned on Geert. All becausehe never recieved an answer to his email. This shows Charles isn’t serious about Jihad and is fake. But it gets better! Kilgore and Sharmuta have their say as well!

Sharmuta 1/21/09 10:34:35 am reply quote

I’m also having a hard time being sympathetic if he’s going to run with neo-fascists and their sympathizers. But I guess that’s the price one pays for the company they keep.

45 Killgore Trout 1/21/09 10:37:49 am

But is agenda to ban the Quran and make Islam illegal is reprehensible. The laws used to prosecute him for free speech are equally awful. He would have a much better moral standing and would be a much better advocate for freedom of speech if he also advocated freedom for others.

Killgore’s Pro-Islamic colors are showing and Sharmuta is just following Charles. This is sick and pathetic. LGF is increasing isolated and irrelevant.

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Update by Arwyn

Online Petition in support of Geert Wilders (thanks, DJM)

Charles trying to keep up with Kos:

tricycle-triathalon

(thanks, BuddyG!)

When Truth Hurts

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Prosecute.

A Dutch court has ordered prosecutors to put a right-wing politician on trial for making anti-Islamic statements.

Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders made a controversial film last year equating Islam with violence and has likened the Koran to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

“In a democratic system, hate speech is considered so serious that it is in the general interest to… draw a clear line,” the court in Amsterdam said.

“…to draw a clear line…”

Between what? Free speech and hate speech? Or between unpopular truth and popular fantasy? Between intolerant hatred and bigotry hidden under the guise of religion?

There is more on the line here than Freedom of speech. It is one thing to limit free speech by prosecuting inciting and hateful comments. But the real danger is to limit free speech that expresses truth.

(Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit)

Below the fold, a short video on the difference between Hate Speech and Religious Right:

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