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| Articles about Free Speech |
| The Obama War On Free Speech: And Truth | | 2008-08-29 12:12:00 | | It looks as if the Obamassiah minions, as well as Obama himself, are not happy when the truth about his associations are revealed. We saw his wonderful little dance when the issues about Rev. Wright were brought up. We saw the nifty little jig when the Rezko's name was made public. But it's going to require one hell of a "Dancing with the Stars" moment to make this one go away.The thing is, it's not smear. It's not lies. It's nothing but honesty. Truth. And, as the saying goes, "the truth sometimes hurts."I'm speaking of the American Issues Project's latest ad questioning the link between the domestic terrorist group Weather Underground member William Ayers with Obama. Ayers and his little groupies were responsible for the bombing of the Capitol Building in D.C., as well as the Pentagon and other Govt. buildings about 30 some-odd years ago. To this day, Ayers has openly claimed responsibility for the bombing and has stated, "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough."The... | | By: Hoopy Frood Dude | | |
| | Federation for American Immigration Reform Against Free Speech! | | 2008-08-09 23:12:21 | | SO MUCH FOR THE 1ST AMENDMENT!There are more than a few of us who have been waiting for FAIR to finally take a mis-step. Maybe they have and maybe they haven't. In a recent press release, The Federation for American Immigration Reform is now calling on the prosecution of a member of Congress for saying something FAIR doesn't like. (From the Stein Report).Once upon a time the United States was a Republic. We had a little piece of paper called the Bill of Rights. We had a Constitution and specific amendments to said Constitution. We cherished ...... | | By: The Pink Flamingo | | |
| | Limiting Free Speech (5): Pornography | | 2008-07-25 03:27:20 | |
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First of all, whatever we think of pornography, we should admit that it is a kind of speech, just as cross-burning, flag-burning, hate speech etc., and hence it is at least possible that it falls under the protection of the right to free speech. The US Supreme Court has at different occasions decided that pornography [...]... | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Limiting Free Speech (4): Derogatory Speech | | 2008-07-24 07:49:31 | | In this series, I examine the possibility of limiting certain kinds of speech, and especially the possibility of legal limits. As stated in the introductory post in this series, such limits are possible but should be exceptional given the importance of the freedom of speech.
So far, I have looked at two examples: holocaust denial and [...]... | | By: PAP Blog | | |
| | Limiting Free Speech (3): Hate Speech | | 2008-07-23 08:21:29 | | (source)
Hate speech (or antilocution, or fighting words) is speech that incites other people to hate a certain group in society defined by common characteristics (race, gender, religion etc.). It usually also incites to commit violence and discrimination based on hatred.
The most famous case is that of the Danish Muhammad cartoons. These cartoons led to worldwide [...]... | | By: PAP Blog | | |
| | Limiting Free Speech (2): Holocaust Denial | | 2008-07-22 08:30:09 | | (source)
In the introductory post of this series, I summarized the dangers of limiting free speech while at the same time granting that such limits are necessary in some cases. One case is Holocaust denial, or Holocaust revisionism as it is referred to by its supporters.
What is Holocaust denial?
Holocaust deniers only rarely claim that the Holocaust [...]... | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Limiting Free Speech (1): Introduction | | 2008-07-22 04:21:07 | | (source)
I’m a strong defender of human rights in general and of free speech in particular. But I’m also convinced that the system of human rights is not a harmonious whole and that some rights can conflict; some rights may harm other rights, in which case one right has to be limited for the sake of [...]... | | By: PAP Blog | | |
| | Is Larry Sinclair’s Appearance at the NPC Free Speech? | | 2008-06-12 18:22:15 | | IF HE WERE EXPOSING A REPUBLICAN...?If Larry SInclair was in the process of exposing John McCain would The Daily Kos, Fire Dog Lake and the usual Soros smear machine be complaining and trying to prevent him from speaking? Or, would they be hosting the event?The usual minions of the left are suddenly circling around the interesting character of Larry Sinclair once again. On the 18th, Sinclair is going to be making an appearance at the National Press Club. If he is simply a “troll” why not just ignore him and let him fade back into the woodwork? ...... | | By: The Pink Flamingo | | |
| | Bloggers Unite: Human Rights includes Free Speech | | 2008-05-18 08:41:33 | | BLOGGERS UNITE is an initiative designed to harness the power of the blogosphere to make the world a better place. By challenging bloggers to blog about a particular social cause on a single day, a single voice can be joined with thousands of others to help make a real positive difference. Today e-mail allows groups to grow from a dozen friends to a hundred hobbyists to a huge, national organization. Meanwhile, blogging is transforming journalism, and websites like Wikipedia and the Internet Archive are part of a new Library of Alexandria being built online.In countless ways, the Internet is radically enhancing our access to information and empowering us to share ideas with the entire world. Free speech thrives online, freed of limitations inherent in other media and created by traditional gatekeepers.Preserving the Internet's open architecture is critical to sustaining free speech. But this technological capacity means little without sufficient legal protections. If laws can censor yo... | | By: Tails of Terror from the Black Lagoon! | | |
| | Free (As In Speech) Beer, V2.0 | | 2008-05-13 11:28:00 | | From Slashdot:
Three years ago we discussed an open source brewing project in which a Danish brewer made his beer recipes available for public consumption and alteration. The concept has taken off, first with the 'Free Beer Project' in Denmark and now with Flying Dog's 'Collabor... | | By: CR4: The Engineer's Place for Discussion & New | | |
| | Free Speech For Chaplains: Executive Order Needed | | 2008-04-29 11:52:00 | | So, for about the last four years or so, Military Chaplains have been taking heat over invoking the name Jesus in their prayers. Slowly at first. But now becoming commonplace. About a year and a half ago, it was supposed that this issue was being dealt with. Apparently, it didn't happen after all.I delved into this issue a bit earlier on, back in October 2007. You can skim through that article HERE whilst also addressing a similar but separate topic; http://hoopyfrooddude.blogspot.com/2007/10/freedom-of-speech-not-for-military.htmlNow, spearheading a campaign to preserve the First Amendment, in the form of free speech for military chaplains, the ACLJ along with Congressman Walter Jones of North Carolina are calling for an Executive Order from the President. A petition is being circulated to allow and protect a military chaplains right to pray as their faith dictates.HERE is the ACLJ page regarding this issue; http://www.aclj.org/TrialNotebook/Read.aspx?id=612Whatever an individual thin... | | By: Hoopy Frood Dude | | |
| | No Free Speech For Students On The Web | | 2008-03-05 20:03:11 | | UPDATE:Apparently the student in question attempted to publicly apologize to the principal for the comments, but the principal wasn't adult enough to accept.While I await Blogger's response to the template problems I figured I might as well still keep the site somewhat updated. The following story should never have gotten so far as to be discussed, because it is nothing short of ludicrous.This story conjures up memories of the school that banned their students from going to Myspace ... while at home. Yep, you heard me. A school banned their students from any Myspace activity at school, or at home. The truly sad part is how some parents supported the school being able to tell their kids what they could, and could not, do in their own homes. That was clearly an abuse of authority on the school's part, and severely crossed the line.As hard as it might be to believe, I think this latest story goes even further in illustrating just how far schools will go to seize control of your child... | | By: Needs Of The Many | | |
| | Karen Armstrong on free speech and contraditions in western values | Europe's anxieties about Islam | | 2008-02-14 21:07:24 | | In Guardian, prominent author and religious scholar Karen Armstrong wrote on the issue free speech in the context of Danish Cartoon back in July 2007. She is also the author of two biographies of the Prophet, Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet and Muhammad: A Prophet of Our Time.Quoted below is from her article: An inability to tolerate Islam contradicts western values:"In the 17th century, when some Iranian mullahs were trying to limit freedom of expression, Mulla Sadra, the great mystical philosopher of Isfahan, insisted that all Muslims were perfectly capable of thinking for themselves and that any religiosity based on intellectual repression and inquisitorial coercion was "polluted". Mulla Sadra exerted a profound influence on generations of Iranians, but it is ironic that his most famous disciple was probably Ayatollah Khomeini, author of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie.This type of contradiction is becoming increasingly frequent in our polarised world (...)(...) the cartoonis... | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
| | | Now, I'm all in favour of free speech (advice) | | 2007-10-11 03:30:14 | | Free booklet 'How to Make Effective Presentations' with today's IndependentThis year has seen some excellent newspaper give-aways which have been very useful for anyone interested in public speaking. In April/May, the Guardian gave away 14 booklets and a CD of Great Speeches of the Twentieth Century. These were very nicely produced and contained overviews from historians as well as the content of speeches from JFK, Churchill, Mandela, MacMillan, FDR, Khrushchev, Emmeline Pankhurst, Martin Luther King, de Gaulle, Thatcher, Nehru, Aneurin Bevan, Virginia Woolf and Earl Spencer. With a line-up like that, I can even forgive them for never sending the free storage box that I saved up all those tokens for!Throughout July, the Daily Mail gave away DVDs of the superb documentary series The World at War. Not only did this give me the opportunity to see a brilliant work that I never appreciated as a child in the 1970s but it also contains footage of historic speeches and relaxed, fluent interview clips from 30 years later.The Independent is currently giving away free pamphlets each day containing extracts from business titles (the same sort of idea as the condensed books that come with the Anthony Robbins Power Talk recordings).They're part of a series called Success at Work and today's is How to Make Effective Presentations. Discounting adverts and title pages, this comprises 15 pages of extracts from Brilliant Presentations by Richard Hall and Effective Presentation by Ros and Antony ('Yes Minister') Jay. Hall fills most of his 6 pages with tips about conquering nerves, backed up with some fascinating facts about panic attacks.The Jays give a highly detailed analysis of the structure of a sales presentation.These extracts make both books look very appealing but this pamphlet alone contains a remarkable amount of concise, indispensable information and all it will cost is 80p for today's Independent! Now what could be better value than that (well, apart from a blog wh... | | By: Nick R Thomas - A Public Speaker's Blog | | |
| | SCOTUS Free Speech Rulings | | 2007-06-26 01:32:15 | | From SCOTUSBlogThe fourth ruling, written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., over three full dissents and one partial dissent, declared that public school officials do not violate a student's free speech rights by punishing the student for words or actions that promote a drug message. The ruling in Morse v. Frederick (06-278) also should count as a 5-4 decision because Justice Stephen G. Breyer would have decided the case on qualified immunity grounds, and not reach the First Amendment issue. The Court issued its fifth ruling of the day, concluding that a Wisconsin abortion rights group had a First Amendment right to aid during election season campaign ads that named a candidate running for the Senate. Three of the five Justices in the majority urged the Court to overturn the part of a 2003 ruling that upheld the constitutionality of the federal law restricting such radio and TV ads close to elections. The Chief Justice's main opinion, joined fully by Justice Alito, said the cas... | | By: Dyre Portents | | |
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