Showing posts with label silencing voices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label silencing voices. Show all posts

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Anti-Trump Derangement Disorder

Violating freedom of expression:

Saturday, August 27, 2016

Dr. Drew's Show Canceled. Why?

The Clinton Machine strikes again?  You decide.

First, here is what Dr. Drew (board-certified internist, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, former Medical Director for the Department of Chemical Dependency Services at Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, California, staff member at Huntington Memorial Hospital, and a private practitioner), said about Hillary Clinton's health:


Excerpt from this article in the Conservative Tribune:
CNN spin-off HLN announced this week the cancellation of Dr. Drew Pinsky’s eponymous program, and some suspected that Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had orchestrated this sudden removal of the board-certified medicine specialist and TV personality from the public sphere.

“Dr. Drew and I have mutually agreed to air the final episode his show on September 22,” CNN vice president Ken Jautz, who managed HLN, explained in a statement.

The network vice president went on to praise Pinsky for his “creative shows,” “hard work” and “distinctive programming,” but stopped short of revealing the exact reason for the show’s cancellation....

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Criticism Of Islam Will Not Be Tolerated

Eagles of Death Metal Dropped From Music Festivals Over Lead Singer's Comments About Muslims

The band Eagles of Death Metal, whose concert was attacked by ISIS extremists during the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, has been dropped from two French music festivals after lead singer Jesse Hughes said that he saw Muslims celebrating following the massacre.

The band was scheduled to play at the Rock en Seine and Cabaret Vert festivals later this summer....
Read the rest HERE.

Those who push back against the narrative of "Islam means peace" will be punished.

Friday, April 04, 2014

CAIR Sues Center For Security Policy For Documentary "Muslim Mafia - Judge Approves Lawsuit, Sends It To Trial

CAIR Helps Define Jihad

From American Freedom Law Center:


Late last week, Federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, sitting in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, denied the Council on American-Islamic Relation’s (CAIR) motion for partial summary judgment in a lawsuit CAIR filed against the Center for Security Policy (CSP) and several of its employees, thereby setting the stage for the case to go to a jury trial.
CAIR, which bills itself as “America’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization,” sued CSP – a national security policy think tank – and its employees for working on a documentary designed to expose CAIR’s Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas ties and other illegal activities.
While dealing a blow to CAIR, the court granted most of CSP’s motion for summary judgment, sending a few of the surviving issues to trial on the presentation of the slimmest of evidence by CAIR.  Based on this “evidence,” the court concluded that there were factual disputes that had to be resolved by a jury.
With regard to six of the claims advanced by CAIR, the court had these harsh words to say:
The Court finds that Plaintiffs [i.e., CAIR] have thus far been frustratingly unclear as to the injuries at issue for each of the claims.  In addition, Plaintiffs have not specified which injury, if any, corresponds to which of the Plaintiffs, and have made little effort to explain the proximate cause linking the alleged tortious conduct to the injuries at issue.  Instead, Plaintiffs speak in broad generalizations, asserting injuries and damages and proximate cause across multiple counts and multiple Plaintiffs.  As a result, the Court has received only opaque and largely unhelpful briefing. . . .  Plaintiffs are not specific as to these issues, making resolution of the threshold questions of injury and proximate cause next to impossible for the Court.
Robert Muise, Co-Founder and Senior Counsel of the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), which is representing CSP and its employees, commented:
“While we believe that the court incorrectly went to great lengths to find scant ‘evidence’ to conclude that there are material issues of fact to be resolved by a jury, CAIR is nonetheless in trouble not only with its few surviving claims, but also with the possibility of a public trial that will most certainly expose CAIR for what it is – a sharia-ist front group.”
AFLC is planning to file a motion for reconsideration, arguing that the court misconstrued both the law and the facts with regard to the few surviving claims.
David Yerushalmi, AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel, commented:
“We are certainly disappointed that the court did not rule entirely in favor of our clients, especially because CAIR manifestly abused the legal process in this litigation and because the facts uncovered clearly demonstrate that the documentary was undertaken legally and quite properly.  However, we are eager to prove in court what the documentary sought to prove in the public square: that CAIR is a Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas front group.”
In 2008, Dave Gaubatz, an experienced federal investigator, was hired as an independent contractor to put together a team of field researchers to assist in the documentary.  As part of the field research, Dave Gaubatz trained his son, Chris Gaubatz, to work undercover as an intern with CAIR, which required Chris to wear an audio-video recorder on his clothing to obtain recordings of the routine activities of a CAIR intern.  During this internship, it became clear that both a major fraud occurred within the organization and that CAIR officials were attempting to cover it up.  (AFLC represents five former CAIR victims in a federal lawsuit in the same court alleging fraud and a cover-up by CAIR.  AFLC has filed a motion for summary judgment in that lawsuit as well and is expecting a ruling from the court very soon.)
After the field research for the documentary was completed, Dave Gaubatz published a book entitled,Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America, which was an exposé on CAIR.  Shortly after the book was published, CAIR filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C., against Dave and Chris Gaubatz.  CAIR then amended its lawsuit to add CSP and several of its employees who were involved in the production of the documentary.  CAIR’s lawsuit alleges violations of various federal wiretap and hacking statutes as well as several common law torts, such as breach of fiduciary duty and trespass, among others.
The case has been ongoing for nearly four years.  At various times throughout the litigation, the court criticized CAIR and its in-house legal counsel for their inability to both efficiently manage the case and to comply with court procedures.  Furthermore, the court scolded CAIR’s in-house lawyers for filing untimely and substantively deficient motions.
CAIR, a self-described Muslim public interest law firm, was previously named as an unindicted co-conspirator and Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas front group by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the successful prosecution of a terrorist funding cell organized around one of the largest Muslim charities, the Holy Land Foundation (HLF).  HLF raised funds for violent jihad on behalf of Hamas, and top CAIR officials were part of the conspiracy.  As a result, the FBI publicly terminated its outreach activities with CAIR.

Sunday, March 09, 2014

Recent Court Ruling: "anonymity does not mean immunity under defamation law"


Read the article "Philadelphia Judge Issues Ruling That Could Give Anonymous Online Commenters Second Thoughts" HERE. Note this paragraph:
“I think the court is sending a strong message to those who abuse the internet by defaming others and think they can get away with it by acting anonymously,” he told KYWnewsradio.

“The court is strongly saying that anonymity does not mean immunity under defamation law.”

Podraza says the ruling should provide protection from defamation for all citizens.
Think of the range of possibilities.

The word citizens could be interpreted in a global fashion and could include the idea that insulting someone is defamation per se.

After all, we live in an Orwellian World.

Sunday, November 03, 2013

FCC Monitoring


From the Daily Caller (hat tip to Bunkerville):
FCC to police news media, question reporters in wide-ranging content survey

The Federal Communications Commission is planning a broad probe of political speech across media platforms, an unprecedented move that raises serious First Amendment concerns.

The FCC’s proposed “Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs,” which is set to begin a field test in a single market with an eye toward a comprehensive study in 2014, would collect a remarkably wide range of information on demographics, point of view, news topic selection, management style and other factors in news organizations both in and out of the FCC’s traditional purview.

The airwaves regulator would also subject news producers in all media to invasive questioning about their work and content.

[...]

Among the questions federal contractors will be asking of private media companies:

For media owners:

“What is the news philosophy of the station?”

For editors, producers and managers:

“Have you ever suggested coverage of what you consider a story with critical information for your customers (viewers, listeners, readers) that was rejected by management?” (Followup questions ask the reporter to speculate on why a particular story was spiked.)

[...]

“In this study, the FCC will delve into the editorial discretion of newspapers, web sites and radio and TV stations,” Hudson Institute Fellow Robert McDowell, who served as an FCC commissioner from 2009 to 2013, told The Daily Caller. “This starts sticking the government’s nose into what has traditionally been privileged and protected ground. Regardless of one’s political stripes, one should be concerned.”
Can scrutiny of the blogosphere be far behind?

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Silencing Voices

(hat tip to Jihad Watch)

CAIR/ISNA spokeswoman:
Media in the US is very gullible...If you have something to say, especially as a Muslim, they'll come running to you. Take advantage of that!
Video, which includes a panel with two anti-Islamist Muslims:

Sunday, October 13, 2013

A Prediction

What might be coming down the road soon as a direct result of Robinson's departure from and repudiation of the EDL...

Any counter-jihadists (aka Islamophobes) who don't partner with "moderate Muslim groups" (Would CAIR be deemed one?) will be labeled as haters and far right extremists? Not partnering with "moderate Muslim groups" will result in labeling counter-jihadists as potential Breiviks.

I could be wrong with the above prediction, but it's something that I've been mulling over the past few days.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Digital Censorship At Amazon

Surreal, but not totally unexpected (hat tip to Bloviating Zeppelin):
Amazon Secretly Removes “1984” From the Kindle

Thousands of people last week discovered that Amazon had quietly removed electronic copies of George Orwell's 1984 from their Kindle e-book readers. In the process, Amazon revealed how easy censorship will be in the Kindle age.

In this case, the mass e-book removals were motivated by copyright . A company called MobileReference, who did not own the copyrights to the books 1984 and Animal Farm, uploaded both books to the Kindle store and started selling them. When the rights owner heard about this, they contacted Amazon and asked that the e-books be removed. And Amazon decided to erase them not just from the store, but from all the Kindles where they'd been downloaded. Amazon operators used the Kindle wireless network, called WhisperNet, to quietly delete the books from people's devices and refund them the money they'd paid.

[...]

Regardless of whether you believe Amazon's promise to leave your Kindle alone, the company has tipped its hand and shown us the dark side of a culture where books are only available in electronic form. If the WhisperNet service from Kindle allows the company to delete books silently from your device, what other information might they have access to? Can the company monitor what you're reading and when - and then hand that over to law enforcement? Can it replace a book file with a different file whose content is changed?

Perhaps more than anything else, this mass deletion of 1984 has made it clear that collecting e-books is going to require some technical know-how. No e-book is truly yours unless you can get it off your Kindle and onto your computer - hopefully a computer that isn't connected to the internet
Forewarned is forearmed.

Monday, June 10, 2013

Remember The Internet Kill Switch?


Something to keep in mind right now.

The kill switch was implemented by executive order almost a year ago:
...The Executive Order appeared in the Federal Register and there were 30 days for comment. There was little if any concern, and we bloggers were simply tin foil hat folks.

[...]

...The wording for the executive order is of course lengthy and uses politician language, but the part worth pointing out is in section 5.2.It is in this section that the order states that Homeland Security will be able to monitor and control all non-military forms of communications in times of extreme measures, which is essentially giving the White House the on/off switch to the internet, according to some critics....
Orwellian times, folks.

Saturday, June 01, 2013

Islamic Supremacism On Campus

May 30, 2013 (from Gateway Pundit):


Graduates from the homeschool group with which I work have told me this term that Mohammedans and Islamophiles on campuses all over America are getting pushier and pushier.

It's getting increasingly ugly out there, Infidels!

Friday, May 31, 2013

Obama's DOJ and Islamophilia: "Social Media Posts" (that means Blogs, Facebook, etc.) Telling the Truth About Islam May Violate Civil Rights

BUMPED TO THE TOP FOR NOW - SCROLL DOWN FOR NEWER POSTS

This is not a surprise, but it is a clear and present danger to our freedom (dated May 30, 2013):
DOJ: Social Media Posts Trashing Muslims May Violate Civil Rights

In its latest effort to protect followers of Islam in the U.S. the Obama Justice Department warns against using social media to spread information considered inflammatory against Muslims, threatening that it could constitute a violation of civil rights....

[...]

The area’s top federal prosecutor, Bill Killian, will address a topic that most Americans are likely unfamiliar with, even those well versed on the Constitution; that federal civil rights laws can actually be violated by those who post inflammatory documents aimed at Muslims on social media. “This is an educational effort with civil rights laws as they play into freedom of religion and exercising freedom of religion,” Killian says in the local news story. “This is also to inform the public what federal laws are in effect and what the consequences are.”

The DOJ political appointee adds in the article that the upcoming presentation will also focus on Muslim culture with a special emphasis on the fact that the religion is no different from others, even though some in the faith have committed terrorist acts, Christians have done the same....
Go read the rest HERE. Now.

So, what are we to do about this, an issue of supreme importance. What the DOJ is trying to do strikes at the heart of Freedom of Speech!

Ace of Spades asks, "Has Obama Repealed the Clear and Present Danger Doctrine"?

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Jihad Watch Wins CPAC Award, Barred From Receiving It


Robert Spencer writes:
I was surprised and honored that Jihad Watch was among the nominees for the People's Choice Blog Award, sponsored by Right Wing News and TheTeaParty.net, to be awarded at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2013.

... Jihad Watch won decisively, getting over 50% of the vote in a field of fifteen....

But as time went by and no announcement was made of this victory, and the voting continued despite my having been told that it officially ended last Friday night and that I had won, and the promised links and other placement promised to the winning blog didn't materialize, I started to wonder. So I contacted the organizer who had written me telling me I won and asked him what was going on.

He told me that there was a slight problem: the Tea Party group, which co-sponsored this People's Choice Blog Award, didn't want to allow me to receive it at CPAC next week unless I promised not to criticize Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan as I accepted the award.

I told the organizer that I couldn't agree to that.
He asked me if I had planned to talk about Grover and Suhail. I said no, I hadn't, but I had to now.

So that's that. The People's Choice Blog Award is now the Grover's Choice Blog Award. I will not be going to CPAC and will not be receiving this award.

And since I will not be allowed to receive this award at CPAC, I will talk about Norquist and Khan here....
Read the rest HERE.

Pamela Geller has also been shut out of CPAC 2013.

We're back to the 9/10 mindset — and not only inside the Obama administration.

We are witnessing the further marginalization of the anti-jihad movement.

Prepare for the reaping of the whirlwind.

Friday, February 15, 2013

Meanwhile, Over At Jihad Watch

Major problems, says Robert Spencer:
I really don't have all that much to report, but I wanted to let you know I'm working on it. The situation is very much the same: the comments feature is still not working, it is still very difficult to post articles at all, and other features of the site are non-functional..

Several tech experts are working on the problem. Some malicious code has been found, which makes it likely that the site was hacked, although this hacking was not a conventional one: no eradication of the main page and its replacement by a taunting message, as is the usual practice. In fact, the malicious code is apparently (if I understand the explanation correctly, which is chancy at best, since I'm no techie) slow-acting, unfolding over time. We are looking into how it got there, and who planted it.

In any case, all I can say now is that we're working on it and will have the site fully operational as soon as possible. This kind of action just shows yet again how desperately insecure and thuggish the enemies of freedom are -- they can't refute us, so they try to shut us down. And how many Leftist and Islamic supremacist sites do you ever hear about getting hacked?

Finally, thank you all very much for your many, many emails of concern and support.
Posted by Robert on February 14, 2013 8:39 AM
These problems have been ongoing for days now.

Sunday, January 06, 2013

OIC Horrified

(hat tip to Bare Naked Islam)

As usual, when freedom of expression is involved, Islamomaniacs are offended.

This time, the OIC is horrified by the latest Charles Hebdo comic book mocking MTP.  From Arab News:
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has slammed caricatures of the Prophet (peace be upon him), published in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, saying it incites hatred and intolerance against Muslims.

OIC Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu expressed concern at the publication of the comic book series on the life of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).

Ihsanoglu said the publication went against the norms of responsible journalism and was tantamount to abuse of the right to freedom of expression. He added that incitement and advocacy of hatred and intolerance on religious grounds signified by this publication was in contravention of international human rights laws and instruments.

He called on the magazine to abide by the provisions, particularly those in the European Union (EU) context, on incitement to hatred and violence. He urged the authorities in France to take appropriate action against the magazine....
SSDD.

Islamomaniacs have zero sense of humor, zero sense that anyone should disagree with them.

MTP himself probably found his own reflection blasphemous:

Friday, November 23, 2012

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Muslims Target Any And All Who Support Israel

Even Kim Kardashian.

From Creeping Sharia:
Kim Kardashian has received death threats after posting a pro-Israel message on Twitter.

The reality star wrote, “Praying for everyone in Israel” after Hamas militants launched a rocket attack on Jerusalem.

But the 31-year-old beauty was forced to delete the words of support after a barrage of criticism from her 17 million followers.


“You are a disgrace to your people and your ancestors,” a follower tweeted, referring to her Armenian origin.

Another wrote: “People like you are the reason I want to die *Palestine.”

Others tweeted, “Die in Hell” and “Kill yourself” – terrifying the star into a hasty follow-up tweet reading: “And praying for everyone in Palestine and across the world.”
Kim Kardashian has apologized for her Tweet:
Clearly shaken by the hate messages, Kim then deleted both tweets and released a statement via her own website.

She wrote: “I want to own up to and explain that earlier today I sent out two tweets about saying prayers for the people in Palestine and Israel and after hearing from my followers, I decided to take down the tweets because I realised that some people were offended and hurt by what I said, and for that I apologize.”

She added: “I should have pointed out my intentions behind these tweets when I posted them.

“The fact is that regardless of religion and political beliefs, there are countless innocent people involved who didn’t choose this, and I pray for all of them and also for a resolution.

“I also pray for all the other people around the world who are caught in similar crossfires.”
So, the Islamic freaks win again.

You can't even send out an innocuous Tweet without Islamic freaks getting all riled up!

You had better believe it....Islamic freaks want to censor prayer, particularly any kind of public prayer that doesn't honor their filthy god.  

Islamic freaks have moved from condemning any perceived insult their filthy god to condemning anything and threatening everyone that doesn't honor their filthy god.

Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Film: Silent Conquest

The end of freedom of expression in the West

Excerpt from the press release:
New York: On September 25, 2012, President Obama astonished many Americans by declaring, "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam." This is a sentiment espoused by radical Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Taliban and al Qaeda. Worse yet, his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, revealed the lengths to which the Obama administration is prepared to go to enforce this view when she told the family of a former SEAL killed last month in Benghazi that the producer of a video she falsely claimed precipitated that attack would be "arrested and prosecuted." He was subsequently taken into custody and remains in jail.

Now, a powerful documentary entitled "Silent Conquest" explains why these affronts to the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of freedom of speech are not isolated incidents. Rather, they are part of an ominous pattern of Team Obama's submission to the stealthy Islamist effort to enforce in this country the supremacist doctrine known as shariah and its prohibition of any expression that "offends" Islam or its god, prophet or followers.

The film features interviews with U.S. and foreign legislators, journalists, national security and other experts and Muslim, former Muslim and non-Muslim activists including:

Best-selling author Mark Steyn
Allen West, Member of Congress
Geert Wilders, Member of the Dutch Parliament
Baroness Caroline Cox, Member of the British House of Lords
ACT! for America founder Brigitte Gabriel
Middle East scholar and author Daniel Pipes
American Islamic Leadership Council founder Zuhdi Jasser MD
Former Muslim and author Nonie Darwish
Former Defense Department official Frank Gaffney
Lord Malcolm Pearson, Member of the British House of Lords
Naser Kader, Member of the Danish Parliament
Author and financial terrorism expert Rachel Ehrenfeld
Author Pastor Mark Durie

"Silent Conquest" offers a frightening insight into the extent to which Europe, Canada and the United Nations have already succumbed to the restrictions of shariah blasphemy laws. Its stark warning about the Obama administration's substantial efforts to accommodate them here, as well, is a wake-up call for every American.
Watch the film HERE for a limited time.  83 minutes long.

Sunday, October 07, 2012

Interior Minister Of Pakistan Steals Obama's Thunder

He takes credit for the arrest of the filmmaker of Innocence of Muslims. Malik said:
“I don’t claim entire credit, but it is a credit for the Muslim Ummah, the credit goes to my government. In fact, it is our government and the entire world which took up this derogatory documentary film at all international forums,” Malik told a news conference at Pakistan’s Embassy in Washington on Saturday.

When pressed on the point that Nakoula had been arrested for violating terms of his bail in a separate case, Malik said, “I pointed out that he is a fugitive of law, I did have information. And perhaps that voice reached the right quarters, and he was arrested, it is not me who has made the arrest, but I became instrumental in appealing to the United States.”

About his meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the State Department, Malik said he thanked Clinton and President Barack Obama for condemning the anti-Islam film.
You can't make up this crap.

Monday, August 20, 2012

The Obama Administration Is Killing The Internet

From Breitbart's Big Government, dated August 20, 2012:
Bad policy after bad policy. Often illegally imposed. As a result, the Tech Sector – 1/6 of our nation’s economy, as big as health care – is hemorrhaging jobs. Tech Layoffs Hit 3-year High in First Half of 2012

And our Internet service would be better, faster and cheaper were it not for this Administration.

The damage done by taxes and regulations is often unseen. The money wasted - either sent to government or spent complying with ridiculous over-regulation - could have instead been invested in improving and expanding existing service, nd hiring people to make it all happen.

The worst gig-and-progress-killing Administration Internet power grab of all was the December 2010 illegal imposition of Network Neutrality [video]. Net Neutrality eviscerates private sector investment in the infrastructure necessary to maintain and continue building the World Wide Web – exactly as ObamaCare does to private sector health care....
Read it all HERE. This is important!

Without the Internet, our vulnerability to tyranny increases astronomically!