Let’s talk about freedom of speech
There’s been some things on my mind concerning freedom of speech and censorship lately. I’ve decided to write about after some very recent events. Let’s look at a few things.
Ok, so I saw a post over at Atlas Shrugs (one of the most bodacious babes of the blogosphere) about the censorship on You Tube. It concerned one of her excellent vlogs (video blogs) and the Democrats. Seems some people complained to You Tube and the took the video offline. They don’t say exactly why but they refer her to the terms of service. Having seen the vlog and read the terms of service a few times I can’t see why other then You Tubes continued left leaning.
Today I also see, over at Michelle Malkin’s site (another bodacious babe of the blogospere), posted about the U.S. Military’s crackdown on the military blogs (milblogs). Seems they don’t like some of the things being said from the front line.
The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops’ online activities since the start of the Iraq war. And it could mean the end of military blogs, observers say.
Some are saying that this is because of what some of those brave men and women are saying about the Democratic leadership right now. Remember the military, as a force, is supposed to be non-partisan.
Finally, there was this article about Don Imus. I haven’t written about Imus and what he said, on purpose. It’s been dissected across the net by much better writers then I. However, when taken in the context of the bigger picture here in America I would be remiss not to talk about it.
Imus has hired Martin Garbus, a New York-based attorney at the law firm Davis & Gilbert who is widely recognized as one of the country’s most able First Amendment lawyers. Time Magazine, for one, has called him “legendary, one of the best trial lawyers in the country.” He’s successfully represented the comedian Lenny Bruce against criminal charges on First Amendment grounds, and the writer Robert Sam Anson in a lawsuit filed by Walt Disney trying to halt the publication of a book critical of the media giant.
Rosie O’Donnel goes on the nationally syndicated TV Show “The View” and consistently calls for Bush’s impeachment and claims that the government was responsible for the deaths of 2996 innocent Americans among other vile slanderous things towards the conservatives in this country. She gets offered another contract but turns it down because it wasn’t enough money. Speculation is rampant she will get a show of her own again soon.
Now let’s look at this. Atlas has a post banned from You Tube where she blasts the democrats, the military bloggers are censored for decrying Harry Reid and the democrats quitting on the war against terror, and Imus gets fired for picking on a group that made the largest voting base of the democrats angry and Rosie ODonnel claiming our President is a murderer. Combine this with the conservative view that the liberal left owns the main stream media and you get a fair idea of where this censorship is all coming from. This is especially important in the months leading up to the 2008 presidential election. Consider this the opening salvos or a testing of the lefts media might before the showdown. Still doubt?
Consider a few things, right now there are a bunch of videos on You Tube of US soliders being burned in effigy, islamic snipers killing american soldiers, and people claiming that Bush and co. killed 2996 American citizens in some plot to go after Iraq. You have Dick “we ran from Somalia, lets run from Iraq” Murtha calling General Petraeus a “political hack”, and finally the NY Post reports that Roseanne Barr is the front runner to replace Rosie Odonnel who is an even bigger leftard nut job then Odonnel.
I think the zionists made a huge mistake when they factioned the left in germany. They ended up trading jewish lives for land, instead of standing together with the socialist factions that opposed hitler. Zionism was the last nail in the casket of European jewry. The arab’s protection is the only reason any holy site remains in israel. The jews line up to stone women who try to access those sites. I saw it with my own eyes. The arabs do not invade other countries. The israelis do. I am sick of israel and I am sick of zionists. They are propped up by evangelical christians who cannot wait for the arabs to kill them so that their genocidal war god whom they misname jesus can come back.
There is a saying “evil wins when good people stand by and do nothing”. While many on the right are railing against things like this, too many are ignorant of what is going on. These things are really just the testing of media power by the left. Checking to see what they can get away with and what the American masses will ignore. It doesn’t bode well for those of us who love this country. Comments very very welcome.
