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Justice Dept. Asks For Indymedia Visitor Logs

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Free Speech in the USA [a sort of humorous story.]

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The Man Who Beat Glenn Beck

The controversial cable titan was so angry over a Web site parodying his show that he... more

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E.P.A. Censors Employees on YouTube

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Iraq: Violent Crackdown on Reporters

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DR. PAUL L. WILLIAMS TO ADDRESS INTERNATIONAL FREE SPEECH CONFERENCE IN D.C.

What part of “Congress shall make NO LAW” do these congress critters NOT get?... more

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Radio Free Catholic

WCUA is Catholic University of America's student-run internet radio station. "Radio... more

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Obama's Aim to End Free Speech in America?

Shut Up, America! The End of Free Speech shines the light on a dark mission of the... more

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CALIFORNIA BECOMES SECOND STATE TO PROTECT AMERICANS FROM FOREIGN LIBEL LAWS

The governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, signed a law yesterday that will... more

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Obama is a “Long Legged Mack Daddy” Report!

Haters of America love Obama!

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AMERICANS SHOULD NOT BE STRIPPED OF THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES

I am a United States citizen on trial in Canada for exposing a situation at McMaster... more

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Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (or, the Privatization of the English Language)

I find it unbelievable that a common phrase (that was used way before it was the title... more

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AMERICAN JOURNALISTS SILENCED IN FOREIGN LANDS

American investigative journalist, and author, Dr. Paul L. Williams, will begin his... more

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Lawyer sues to end Dallas group's 'threat' prayers, Free speech brought into question

A former military lawyer who served in the Reagan White House and worked for Ross Perot is suing a Dallas-based religious organization in a case that could test the limits of free speech and prayer.

Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, said he wants Gordon Klingenschmitt, a former U.S. Navy chaplain, to "stop asking Jesus to plunder my fields ... seize my assets, kill me and my family then wipe away our descendants for 10 generations."

The suit also asks the court to stop the defendants – Klingenschmitt and Jim Ammerman, the founder of the Dallas-based Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches – from "encouraging, soliciting, directing, abetting or attempting to induce others to engage in similar conduct."

Weinstein, 54, said his family has received death threats, had a swastika emblazoned on their home in New Mexico, animal carcasses left on their doorstep and feces thrown at the house.

Weinstein, who is Jewish, said the harassment started several years ago when he began protesting Christian proselytizing at his alma mater, the Air Force Academy. Weinstein started his foundation shortly after that to battle the influence of extremist evangelical Christians in the armed forces.

"I morphed from being a lawyer and a businessman to this thing called a civil rights activist," he says. He is an unlikely activist, Weinstein said: a Jewish Republican from a long line of military members.

Klingenschmitt, 41, said in a phone interview that he has "never incited anybody" to hurt Weinstein.

"I never prayed for anyone's death," he said. "I never prayed for anyone's violence. All I did was quote the Scriptures." His prayers are available on his Web site and for radio broadcast.

Ammerman, an 84-year-old retired Army chaplain, declined an interview, but said in a prepared statement he "believes the allegations are unfounded."

Weinstein said he also hopes to cripple the Chaplaincy financially and to have the organization stripped of its status with the Department of Defense.

more at link...A former military lawyer who served in the Reagan White House and worked for Ross... more

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Dr. Paul Williams Goes on Trial in Canadian Court

Next week, investigative journalist and author Dr. Paul L. Williams will be tried in a... more

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It’s about time, dude!

Wanna see some TRUE social justice?

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Do video game companies own you?

Should video games be protected under the first amendment? If so. How protected... more

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FCC 'Net Neutrality' Rules Expected to Advance on Vote

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Greed and fear trump American companies' commitment to free speech. Surprised?

Item 1: When it appears in the coming months, look carefully through Yale University Press' new book The Cartoons That Shook the World. It is a scholarly account of the controversy that surrounded a Danish newspaper's 2005 publication of 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. The author, Jytte Klausen, argues, among other things, that the controversy was manipulated by Danish imams who showed their followers false, sexually offensive depictions of Mohammed alongside the real ones, which were not inherently offensive. She consulted with several Muslim scholars, who agreed. Nevertheless, you will not find the cartoons themselves printed in the finished book.

Item 2: Pick up a copy of the U.S. edition of September's GQ. Buried deep inside, you will find an article titled "Vladimir Putin's Dark Rise to Power," by Scott Anderson. The article, based on extensive reporting, argues that Russian security services helped create a series of bomb explosions in Moscow in 2000—explosions that were blamed on Chechen terrorists at the time. Read it carefully, for you will not find this article in GQ's Russian edition. As of this writing, you will not find this article on GQ's Web site, either: Condé Nast, the media company that owns GQ, has ordered all its magazines and affiliates around the world to refrain from mentioning or promoting this article in any way.

Item 3: If your knowledge of written Chinese characters is up to it, type the word Tiananmen into Google.cn. I am reliably informed (not knowing Chinese myself) that your search will retrieve little or no useful information on this subject, nor will it tell you much about Taiwan or Tibet or democracy. This is not an accident: In 2006, Google agreed to a modicum of censorship in China, in exchange for being allowed to operate there at all.

These three incidents are not identical. Yale's press refused to print the cartoons because the university fears retaliatory violence on its campus. Condé Nast refused to promote an article on the Russian secret service because it fears loss of Russian advertisers. Google refuses to let its Chinese users search for Tiananmen and other taboo subjects because Google wants to compete against Chinese search engines for a share of the huge Chinese market. All three companies exhibit greatly varying degrees of remorse, from Condé Nast (none) to Yale's press (a lot) to Google (ambivalent: Google founder Sergey Brin initially argued that the company would at least bring more information to China, if not complete information).

Nevertheless, the three stories lead to one conclusion: In different ways, the Russian government, the Chinese government, and unnamed Islamic terrorists are now capable of placing de facto controls on American companies—something that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. In a world that seems more dangerous and less profitable than it did in the past, greed or fear proved stronger than these companies' commitment to free speech.

More to the article at the link.Item 1: When it appears in the coming months, look carefully through Yale University... more

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Clashes as Iranians Hold Demonstrations

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Justice Dept. Asks For Indymedia Visitor Logs

Free Speech in the USA [a sort of humorous story.]

The Man Who Beat Glenn Beck

E.P.A. Censors Employees on YouTube

Iraq: Violent Crackdown on Reporters

DR. PAUL L. WILLIAMS TO ADDRESS INTERNATIONAL FREE SPEECH CONFERENCE IN D.C.

Radio Free Catholic

Obama's Aim to End Free Speech in America?

CALIFORNIA BECOMES SECOND STATE TO PROTECT AMERICANS FROM FOREIGN LIBEL LAWS

Obama is a “Long Legged Mack Daddy” Report!

AMERICANS SHOULD NOT BE STRIPPED OF THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (or, the Privatization of the English Language)

AMERICAN JOURNALISTS SILENCED IN FOREIGN LANDS

Lawyer sues to end Dallas group's 'threat' prayers, Free speech brought into question

Dr. Paul Williams Goes on Trial in Canadian Court

It’s about time, dude!

Do video game companies own you?

FCC 'Net Neutrality' Rules Expected to Advance on Vote

Greed and fear trump American companies' commitment to free speech. Surprised?

Clashes as Iranians Hold Demonstrations

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