According to the US Constitution, free speech is still protected in this country. Last week hundreds of students at Berkeley (U of CA) disagreed and rioted to block a scheduled visit by a conservative who they considered to be a purveyor of ‘offensive’ speech. Ironically, over 50 years ago students at the same institution initiated […]
A report from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) Blamed an increase in hate speech and racist violence against Muslims in the UK on the press. The European Union bureaucrats demanded that the British government clamp down on freedom of the press and force the UK media to refrain from identifying terrorists as […]
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks and protest marches in Paris, the debates continue this week in America and the West over the true character of Islam with concerns about escalating ‘Islamophobia.‘ Meanwhile the reactions in Muslim dominated countries are quite different: In Lahore, Pakistan a mob of over 300 in front of the […]
Oxford University Press to Censor References to Pigs (Peppa Pig) We all saw the huge marches on TV in Paris where the hundreds of thousands of folks showed up to support free speech and demonstrate against the terrorists. In the process the French Prime Minister even declared war on radical Islam. Meanwhile there are also […]
With all of the Valentine celebrations going on in the West, an important anniversary came and went with very little acknowledgement. On February 14, 1989 Ayatollah Khomeini, the ruler of Iran issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his supposed anti Muhammad novel –The Satanic Verses. Khomeini called for the killing and execution of Rushdie […]
(Fox News Channel: Wikipedia) The founding fathers considered a free press to be essential in retaining freedom. They took care to guarantee free speech and freedom of the press right at the beginning of the Bill of Rights. It is doubtful that they would have ever expected that in a future generation the press […]
A firestorm of controversy raged for over a week when FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai in a Wall Street Journal article revealed that an agency study suggested that the FFC put monitors in every major newsroom across America. Now the Commissioner makes it plain that he opposes the idea. From Breitbart: Pai dismissed the merits of […]
(President Obama: Wikipedia) US Drops to 46th in Press Freedom There was a time when America was a bastion of freedom and represented truth and justice, through a free press but not so much anymore. In the “2014 World Press Freedom Index” the United States now ranks a dismal 46th out of the 180 […]
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Today is Memorial Day in the USA. A day in which we acknowledge the ultimate sacrifice made by many over the years to preserve our country and our freedoms. With that in mind it is totally unacceptable that veterans that did survive their military service to our country may now be […]
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry: “This isn’t about me wanting to take your kids, and this isn’t even about whether children are property. This is about whether we as a society, expressing our collective will through our public institutions, including our government, have a right to impinge on individual freedoms in order to advance a common good. […]
