Will Internet Free Speech Crackdowns Come to America?
We don’t hear much about “the Anglosphere” anymore. The term was coined after 9/11 to distinguish freedom-loving Western allies from those nations sympathetic or indifferent to Islamic jihad.
Sadly, the Anglosphere’s cheerleaders have since learned that the West isn’t always a reliable champion of liberty, either. Two “Anglospheric” nations in particular — Australia and Canada — have revealed a troubling urge to stifle free speech, especially on the Internet.
Recently, for example, Canada’s ruling Conservative government introduced the Investigative Powers for the 21st Century (IP21C) Act.
The act, observes Dr. Michael Geist, “is pretty much exactly what law enforcement has been demanding and privacy groups have been fearing.”
Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa and an internationally recognized expert on technology law. He warns that the act “will embed broad new surveillance capabilities in the Canadian Internet.”
First, IP21C would force Internet service providers (ISPs) to install expensive surveillance systems on their networks, supposedly to combat child pornographers.
“This feels a bit like a surveillance stimulus package,” remarks Geist, “with ISPs making big new investments” and the government promising the inevitable raft of grants and other goodies to ensure their compliance. Naturally, taxpayers will foot the bill.
Smaller ISPs will be exempt from this onerous requirement for three years, but as Geist says, that exemption “undermines the claims that [the act] is an effective solution to online crime”; criminals will simply continue doing “business” through those smaller ISPs, while developing ways to get around the new surveillance systems.
Equally troubling, the act also gives Canadian police wide-ranging new powers. ISPs will be obliged to surrender customer names, addresses, IP addresses, and email addresses on demand, without a warrant. “Preservation orders” will require ISPs to refrain from deleting subscriber information, while “tracking warrants” will let police “remotely activate tracking devices that are found in certain types of technologies such as cell phones.”
Canada’s Ezra Levant has become the nation’s most high-profile critic of any clampdowns on the free flow of information. After publishing the notorious “Danish Mohammed” cartoons in his now-defunct magazine, Levant’s battles against the country’s so-called human rights commissions made him the bane of government censors, do-gooders, and busybodies.
Now ever-attuned to threats to free speech around the world, Levant quickly weighed in when another Commonwealth country announced its own ham-fisted attempts to police the web.
Thank you for this information!
I am concerned about speech online, but I do have to say that “destructive falsehoods” are a real problem – no less than Virgil showed how Rumor could get out of control and seal a city’s fate from within; Machiavelli routinely recommends the outright killing of those who put forth calumny, as they almost always make class warfare and conspiracy theories the issue when a republic is trying to go about its business.
None of this is to say we shouldn’t be concerned about free speech. But there is such a thing as “free speech absolutism,” and a milder example of defending the right in-and-of itself yielded Fahrenheit 9/11, which honestly should have gotten Michael Moore thrown in jail in any civilized society for libel. That’s the mild version: the more destructive uses of “free speech” allow Hamas and known terrorist groups to propagate and fundraise. A particularly insidious example had to do with Iran some time ago: Was the Iranian President speaking at Columbia University free speech?
The attacks on our freedom will likely be subtle. Few bloggers possess the financial resources to handle a government “investigation.” Even a minor confrontation could be economically devastating. We must yell loud and clear and make sure our elected officials don’t cave in to these censors. The odds are on our side—as long as we are willing to invest a most amount of effort.
You’d think that this would be ONE thing the Libs would object to, but I suppose they’re all going to sit around thinking “oh good, now nobody who thinks differently from me will get to talk anymore.”
Obama can have my computer, modem, and copies of the Constitution and Bill of Rights when he pries them from my cold, dead, hands.
There is another point I should add. The leftist censors realize that they don’t have to persecute seventy to eighty of the “reactionaries” to be effective. A mere one third of one percent is all that is required. Consider the blogger of limited financial means—which probably describes the vast majority. You will be intimidated even if your hear that only once every few months a single blogger has been financially damaged by an “investigation.”
Scary, scary stuff, folks. The boa constrictor is (not so) slowly strangling us and the masses are still staring at it, dreamy-eyed.
Wake up!!!
How quickly a left-leaning government wants to forget that the first amendment is there – which covers what’s said and written on the Internet. It’s extremely difficult to “nudge” a populace into doing what they want as long as there is true freedom of speech and press.
But it’s laws like these and the Fairness Doctrine that the left really need in order for their own lies to be perpetuated with impunity. As long as places like PajamasMedia exist, the government has nowhere to lie. To which I am grateful.
Sunstein’s definition of “falsehood” has always been “anything who disagrees with the ‘progressive’ agenda”. He also holds that the “truths” of same are so self-evident that they do not require proof,and that requesting same shows that the one doing so simply is too stupid to pay attention to.
In essence, Sunstein is a priest, and “Progressivism” is his religion. Which raises interesting questions about the concept of the separation of church and state, IMHO.
(This remark to be deleted immediately upon Sunstein becoming Pope of the Church of Internet Truth, of course.)
clear ether
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The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.
Sunstein’s ideas and plans are cfar worse than mere censorship. He is in fact advocating government run mind control (read as: brainwashing). The government will decide the “proper” mix of information content that people should see and the State will enforce this by using content filters to block information deemed by presumably Sunstein as “inappropriate for the people”. See http://www.bostonreview.net/BR26.3/sunstein.html. At first glance one might think he is being reasonable, but that is WRONG!. It is the beginning of total government information control. When the State controls what you can read, it also controls what you cannot read. When you read the words “libertarian paternalism”, we need to understand that is is simply newspeek for tyranny. Some will say, “So what? It is a good thing to get other points of view.” Those people need to understand that when there is no government control, anyone can get as many points of view as they choose in the time available. When there is government control, such as through Sunstein’s proposed “information filters”, the people get the news the government deems relevant. While the filters will likely be fairly loose at first, they must eventually be tightened to push information that supports only the controller’s views. Some will say that there will be ways to work around filters. That may be true, but first, are you willing to bet your freedom on it? That is exactly what you will be doing if the State is allowed to implement these controls. Second, the penalties for beating the filters will have to be severe. When the government says they will control information, they cannot allow dissent, otherwise the State loses control, and the State cannot allow that to happen.
I am not laughting. An attack against the web and talk radio are sure to come. This is high on the O-adminstration’s to-do list. Obama wants to shut down opposition and even discussion. His values and principles are not American values and principles. Values have consequences.
@11 progressivewatch: I totally agree. I think if Obambi’s health care initiative goes down the drain (like it should), that the “fairness” doctrine will be his next major endeavor. Additionally, look for the mind control police here in the forums and government reeducation centers near you.
God help us all.
Watch: Beat me to the punch. Great points.
All totalitarian governments seek to control what is thought, spoken and written in order to control the people. Take a look at each of the progressives most valued idols and states: Lenin to N.Korea, Pol Pot to Cuba.
Orwell predicted as much.
The distribution of internet kiddie porn is a crime that is probably underprosecuted, yet the laws currently on the books are sufficient for prosecuting it.
The only reason for creating any legislation like this is for policing opinion on the internet and eliminating those opinions that are judged by the regime to be “falsehoods.”
Unfortunately, politicians of both parties will find it easier to just vote for an anti-political-speech monstrosity disguised as an anti-kiddie-porn initiative than to read the bill and find out what’s really in it and have to do the hard work of explaining to the public what the consequences of passing it are.
The problem with the ideas put forth by Professor Sunstein is this. Who would determine what a “falsehood” is? In a country where government beaurocrats prosecute falsehood, a falseshood will be any statement that runs counter to the perceived interests of government whether true or false.
That is exactly the case in totalitarian states like China, Iran and Venezuela. If a citizen of one of those countries says something to contradict government policy, at best they will get tossed into a gulag, at worst they will get a bullet in the brain.
This debate highlights the purpose of the First Amendment. If one were to give to government the authority to define truth and to muzzle speech that they subsequently were to define as a “falsehood”, then our Republic would be lost and the experiment begun in 1776 would be over.
This administration is beginning to look more and more like another tired Marxist experiment and less and less like the moderate populism that was sold to the American people.
“libertarian paternalism” is another cogent example of leftists hijacking words and ideas that are anathema to them and twisting them around to trick the ignorant and the stupid.
I am not surprised, only distressed. As someone who considers himself a “realist”, and not prone to conspiracy theories, I still cannot help but to believe that this current administration is operating with a not-so-hidden agenda. Obama’s choices for various cabinet posts reflects more about his ideology than most will publicly admit. Taken in aggregate, the litany of leftist, socialist, eugenic and other radical notions these people hold is endless. After reading Johah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism” I was amazed at how obvious were the tactics of this administration and Congress. It is happening before our very eyes and most of us, like myself, can do little but point at the Emporer and make muted cries while the transformation goes inexorably on…
Everything Old is New again:
20 years ago, Web rising,
rejoicing over free info,
but the older/wiser knew
better; The only way for
a free people to retain
their right to speak is
to say NO to the State.
The time to worry is when
encrypted traffic is banned,
on the excuse that it might
be criminal or terrorist in
nature; After all, if you
have nothing to hide….
What do you mean “Will….”?
Check out what’s happening in Philadelphia now, today, and you will have your answer.
#15 Chris:
The problem with the ideas put forth by Professor Sunstein is this. Who would determine what a “falsehood” is?
Why “Falsehood” czar Prof. Sunstein, and/or the Dear Leader Himself, of course.
And you’re absolutely right on with your point about the hijacking of the language by people like Sunstein (with the media’s cooperation, of course). First, left-wing totalitarians co-opted “liberal.” Now, incredibly, they’re trying to get away with doing the same thing with “libertarian.”
Post 9/11 we already had this installed in the USA. All internet traffic thru the main pipes was split off to be monitored by the NSA.
The list of freedom given up post 9/11 is staggering.
This comment contains destructive falsehoods and has been deleted.
Ironically, has anyone read “The Onion” this week after their takeover by a Chinese company? Perhaps those articles will look commonplace in the next few years.
Next thing you know, we won’t be able to argue with a cop in our own homes without getting arrested.
tom: list those freedoms then and cite your references.
Wow I just tried to post a comment and the server timed out and when I hit the back button to go back to what I had posted it was gone, have they started messing with this site already or was this just a glitch. It makes me wonder after reading the article and some of the posts here.
NSA monitoring is a never-mind;
They are not in the censorship
business; Their data are not
used as evidence in court,
to prove one guilty of
CrimeThink.
gee whiz….
I guess all those people I was laughing at were right after all. Here I though they had holes in their tin foil hats. Turns out they were far more accurate in their views and I was far too trusting of our “leaders”.
Freedom and individual liberties. You just can’t trust anybody but you to protect them. No one cares if you or your children have them but you. “They” will say and do anything to remove them from you because they are a hindrance to getting what “they” want, even if it’s only your money, or more of it. It seems pretty clear now that “they” want that and MUCH more.
My new standard it to match their words and actions to “MY” understanding of the Constitution and Bill of Rights and not “their’s”.
Follow this Dance Macabre
The man – and husband – is the Jewish Prof. Sunstein. According to his Bolshevik creed we must be silenced on way or another as his ancestors instructed him in writing.
The woman – and wife – Smantha Power is an Obama adviser who called for invading Israel; – proof:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw3m-kHYfHc
The moral depravity of these people who surround this Kenyan nobody is astounding and unique in the World’s history. Trashy individuals always existed in every government but this repulsive Kenyan keeps a herd of these lowlifes as his advisers. There is not one decent person in his entourage only the worst of the worst.
A good report, but it tends to fal linto the comforting “Libs” vs. “Cons” routine.
What is far more troubling, is that both liberals and conservatives, however defined, have at times supported the expansion of govenrment power and restriction of individual liberty.
The Patriot Act is a perfect example, as is the ability of the government to wiretap phones, read email, bank accounts, etc without a warrant. Add to this the ability of the government to imprison American citizens without charges or trial, (such as the Jose Padilla case) and you have a very troubling and frightening trend.
These were acts created by a Republican President, and now ratified by a Democrat.
Shamefully, neither the liberal or conservative movements have voiced a unified protest to this.
Every week, I get a laugh from someone who comes out and says he’s a new believer. They think we’re all nuts when we sound the alarm, but the seed is planted, then they begin to see the evidence when it is their ox being gored.
As for me, Obama/Pelosi/Reid are my new heroes. They are absolutely discrediting Liberalism/Progressivism, as we get to see them in all their inglory. Of course, the damage they do is immense, and will be very hard to undo.
The guy keeps lying and giving false statements (healthcare cheaper and better, no taxes on middle class, at no cost) and they’d like to remove falsehood off the internet. He should start with himself. Mission Impossible.
Obama has fretted that the courts haven’t been able to break free from the constitution. That’s what wise latinas are for. A few more of his wise guys, and the constitution will be a distant memory.
Grr.
Sunstein may be a mediocre intellect, but he’s a marketing genius. Libertarian paternalism reminds me of these guys: http://www.nazi.org/
It used to be funny thinking the liberal democrats wanted to take over free enterprise and turn the US into a nanny-state until they actually started to do it. It also used to be funny when Pelosi and others wanted to “even up” (censor) the playing field on the airwaves/internet. Not so funny anymore when they have their claws out (yet again).
Is there any liberal anywhere with a conscious or a desire to follow the Constitution? I’m sure there must be one stuffed in the Smithsonian basement somewhere ready to be put out on the endangered species display.
Anyone else see the humor in Obama’s use of his “free speech” privileges? Looks like Obama spoke “stupidly” and now regrets not “calibrating” his response better. LOL!
I cannot wait for the tape of the incident to be released to hear the good Professor demeaning the police officer’s mother. Of course, it’s okay for a black man to do that when it’s a white police officer right? We all know that no matter what the facts of the case are, if the person in question is black and the police officer is white….the officer is automatically guilty of racism right?
Welcome to the liberal vision of America! RELEASE THE 911 TAPE!!
Unlike those “constructive falsehoods” spread by the White House? In the old days when we were more miserly with our words, those “constructive falsehoods” were called propaganda.
As you all know, Obama is a constitutional lawyer. So be sure that he has looked in every corner to find a way to over throw it, change it, water it down, and do it with slight of hand and attach it to some bill they’re passing.
A recent example is the “hate crime” bill he attached to the defense bill that just passed. Our elected “elite” at work. Honestly until we elect better people, we will have crap to represent us and do us harm.
We need to find a way for candidates to stop trying to destroy the other with lies, and get better people to run for office.
Houdouras was a dry run for a move coming to our country in the near future. Control and dismanteling of America is where Obama and friends appear to be headed.
The answer to the question is an unequivocal
YES!!!
How can you possibly call yourself a Conservative & Pass this trash (IP21C)?
Its become apparent no one in Government cares a wit about free speech or listening to the “Plebs”.
Welcome to the world of Bureaucratic absolutism. Run by entitled elitists with their legions of drones.
There credo is now: We must! We must! Increase government growth at any cost.
Liberty is now just collateral damage. All to sate the power of the State to run our lives. To plant there lies.
JMO
Thanks Kathy. You can be sure that I would prefer to crawl on broken glass (as Don Newman has described Stephen Harper) rather than vote CPC.
They simply cannot stand it when plausible deniability is impossible. Hence, this approach.
Methinks that Greg Weston is proven right yet again in his warnings about the Accountability Act. It would simply bury the material under a mountain range. Put another way, the details of the Sponsorship scandal, under the Accountability
Act, would not have become public.
Here we goooooooooooo! The net has Odumb opposition on it so it has to be watched, cleansed, santitized, you know it has to be in the tank with him and his agenda just like the Zombie media that follow him everywhere with their drooling and fixed stares. If you are not Obamaized you will not speak! You will not write or text or even vote! Okay, you can vote but it will not count.
ChipD: “The Patriot Act is a perfect example, as is the ability of the government to wiretap phones, read email, bank accounts, etc without a warrant. Add to this the ability of the government to imprison American citizens without charges or trial, (such as the Jose Padilla case) and you have a very troubling and frightening trend.”
Count 1 Wrong! Count 2 Wrong! Count 3 Wrong! A federal judge was always in place to either agree or deny each legal act to protect the US. Never was there a case alleging any wrong doing-i.e., the ACLU never lodged a complaint. Padilla had his day in court.
Please do not come here without reviewing all the facts–not just those you get from Kos or HuffPo
“Will Internet Free Speech Crackdowns Come to America?”
Not as long as the Supreme Court holds fast on the 1st Amendment. That is the one protection we have that other countries, including other English speaking countries, don’t have. But, another far left appointment to the high court in addition to Sotomayor could change that. As to Cass Sunstein’s appointment, that is scary. Everyone knows that in Washington staff equals policy so yeah, we are forewarned.
This is a grave threat to free speech. Sounds like Iran and China. Not my America, whatever the purpose stated.
I remembered Ezra Levant being on “Red Eye” on Fox.
Here is the entry: http://ezralevant.com/2009/05/fox-news-channels-red-eye.html
“Because it is there” was the answer that mountaineer George Mallory gave to the question “why do you want to climb Mt. Everest”.
Now the State insults Mallory by hissing “because it is there” when asked “why do you want to regulate the internet”. In fact they want to regulate everything and everyone.
By flirting with regulation of the internet in Canada, Prime Minister Harper is betraying his principles. In the US, President Obama is simply following his life’s dream.
Either way our quality of life in North America will be devalued, unless common ingenuity finds ways to outsmart the government functionaries. It’s happened before you know(smile).
the day we elected Obama, we devalued our entire nation and began the march to socialism/marxism.
the changes will come attached to other things that if we do not pay attention, will pass and become law. Internet regulation will be small to start ….
Those who show contempt for the average person because of what is being proposed for the internet,
they are as dangerous as hot-heads who leave one country to fight in another one, but they don’t join the military of the first country.
Can’t they be exiled, and if they return, they face
much more than a slap on the wrist.
Why not?
Liberty and Diversity in Australia :State of Victoria Attorney General: Fascism at its best: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/we-must-tackle-discrimination-in-all-its-forms-20090725-dwug.html?page=-1
You are no longer entitled to associate with whom you like: unless you are gay
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25825943-5000117,00.html; even religious liberty can be trampled. The tyranny of the minority is no less oppressive than the tyranny of the majority.
Forebears of Cass Sunstein – during their reign in E. Europe – cataloged every single typewriter in order to be able to identify writings of “hostile elements”.
A famous German movie, “The lives of others” depicts the daily life in Communist Germany during the time of the Stasi (secret police) under the direction of Markus Wolf an ethnic relative of Prof. Sunstein.
I was a little child but I clearly remember the laws of that era: anything typed in more than 5 copies considered “illegal publishing” and investigation was launched against that person.
Then came into being the era of the Samizdat -individuals reproduced censored publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader, thus building a foundation for the successful resistance of the 1980s.
As a witness of history I am curious to learn what new tricks have been hatched by Axelrod, Dead Fish, Soros and other members of the clan to squelch the free speech in the Internet age. Don’t worry, they are inexhaustible at inventing restrictions on the people: since 1917. Bolshevik Revolution “control” is the essence of their existence.
- They won’t give it up when they just won the election!
blotto, you’ve got it right, and I wish these people who keep screaming, ranting and raving about the Patriot Act could present one case of an American citizen who had done nothing wrong was arrested, prosecuted and convicted. Anyone who thinks that George Bush was using the Patriot Act for political reasons is out of his or her mind. He was trying to protect the country. Obama is trying to destroy it. Nol rants, please, just verified examples if anyone can come up with one. And no crying about some Muslims that were apprehended right after 9-11, because we were too unprepared, had no knowledge of the Muslim names and probably a very few mistakes were made. Anyway, that was before the Patriot Act was even passed. George Bush is a patriot, Barack Obama is a traitor.
I’m an ex-pat, and in Israel, “free speech” is considerably more circumscribed than it is in the States. There is no constitution here, phones are tapped routinely, people are followed via their cell phones routinely, there is little privacy or protection of it. There is no writ of habeus corpus here – you can be held on remand virtually forever. There is no trial by jury. Law is not enforced equally among all parts of the populace. What is called dimokrátia yisraelít – Israeli democracy – is a bad joke that stinks like 6 day old fish.
But there is a certain freedom on the internet, and Israelis, for all of the circumscription of their freedoms, tend to ignore the thedakars of culture here, the Hebrew press. Only foreign correspondents take them seriously.
Nevertheless, I read this stuff and get nervous. America always was the “land of the free”, while Israel always was “the land of the fee”. How long will it be before the Israeli traitors on Government Hill mimic their American and European masters and start censoring the internet?
There is no doubt, that a government that ruthlessly seeks to have seniors cut their lives short, will ELIMINATE ALL OF OUR FREEDOMS.
U.S. HEALTHCARE: CUT YOUR LIFE SHORT
Obama promised HOPE and CHANGE. The media never asked what frightening changes Obama planned for Americans.
WORLDNETDAILY.COM
July 22, 2009
Obamacare for old folks: Just ‘cut your life short’
Health plan provision demands ‘end-of-life’ counseling
By Bob Unruh
The version of President Obama’s universal health care plan pending in the U.S. House would require “end-of-life” counseling for senior citizens, and the former lieutenant governor for the state of New York is warning people to “protect their parents” from the measure.
At issue is section 1233 of the legislative proposal that deals with a government requirement for an “Advance Care Planning Consultation.”
Betsy McCaughey, the former New York state officer, told former president candidate Fred Thompson during an interview on his radio program the “consultation” is no more or less than an attempt to convince seniors to die.
“One of the most shocking things is page 425, where the Congress would make it mandatory absolutely that every five years people in Medicare have a required counseling session,” she said. “They will tell [them] how to end their life sooner.”
McCaughey also said the Obama administration is suggesting that medical care be withheld from seniors based on the expected years they have left to live.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=104719
Obama’s Civilian National Security Force
Obama promised change. The End of America as we know it:
Obama: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwaAVJITx1Y
PRAVDA: America’s Descent into Marxism – Brief Video
http://www.solutionsfromscience.com/
#38 Sallie – Honduras PUNISHED for Being ANTI-COMMUNIST. Israel PUNISHED for Being JEWISH
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
US turns up pressure on Honduras coup government
By MARK STEVENSON (AP) – July 20, 2009
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called interim President Roberto Micheletti to say there would be serious consequences if his government ignores international mediation for Zelaya’s return.
Honduran business leaders, meanwhile, say U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens has called them into meetings to warn that Honduras — impoverished and highly dependent on exports to the United States — could face tough sanctions if the interim government continues to refuse Arias’ compromise proposal for Zelaya to return as head of a coalition government.
The European Union added to the pressure on Monday by announcing it was suspending $93.1 million (65.5 million euros) in aid to Honduras.
The United Nations and Organization of American States have called for the return of Zelaya, who was arrested and hustled out of the country by the army on June 28.
But Micheletti vowed not to stand down — and implied that the United States is betraying one of its staunchest allies. Honduras allowed its territory to be used as a staging area for U.S.-backed Contra rebels in Nicaragua during the 1980s, and more recently it sent troops to Iraq. One learns in life that people who seem to be friends are not really friends.
Zelaya has aligned himself with leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Adolfo Facusse, the head of Honduras’ National Association of Industries, was defiant:
“We prefer sanctions to Zelaya’s return,” which he said would bring the “loss of liberty, dictatorship, communism.”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jAkMGKIUDg_ngUiZboxQbYj5_DPwD99ICUP80
Honduras PUNISHED for Being ANTI-COMMUNIST. Israel PUNISHED for Being JEWISH
It is ominous that the U.S. and the nations, condemn and punish the freedom-loving people of Honduras for refusing to accept communism. Honduras, NEVER give up the fight for freedom!
Is this hostile act against tiny, courageous Honduras a prelude of what is planned for America and the nations? Is it planned that America and the nations will become communist?
GLOBAL JIHAD’S BIGGEST VICTORY – US/EU teamed up with Islamic nations – demand vulnerable little Israel surrender half her Holy Land to Muslims bent on Jewish genocide-70% of PA Muslims support savage suicide bombings of Jewish innocents.
The Free World is in a fight for her survival! Israel, stand strong! NEVER give up the fight for freedom! NEVER surrender to the global jihad onslaught! Not one inch of Land to barbaric, implacable enemies!
NEVER agree to vicious and evil ethnic Jew cleansing!
Rejected posts at http://lanl-the-rest-of-the-story.blogspot.com/:
(1) Far worse than Doug´s myth of correct grammar and good education (Doug´s blog, pre-LANS LANL), vs uncorrect grammar and bad education (Frank´s blog, today´s LANS LANL), is the naivite of the Obama administration that makes US more vulnerable.
From http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/07/obama-just-made-us-more-vulnerable/, July 8, 2009 Mike Rapkoch, Billings, Montana writes:
“Obama is simply acting, on a global scale, like the egalitarian he is. He and his leftist cohorts have, since the end of the 19th Century, sought to force every American down to the same size-leveling. I believe, was Edmund Burke´s term for this “philosophical” position. As Obama proceed with his pogrom in the domestic economy, he has turned similar attention to America´s place in the world.
Now Obama seeks to destroy our position as the world´s only superpower, a power traditionally used solely to protect the weak abroad and ensure our national security. Obama is giving away the Nation´s strength believing it best that the U.S. be “equal” to every other Nation.
Too bad for the dream kid; the Russians, Chinese, Muslim States, North Koreans (the list is long) will be happy to rise to the top, leaving the U.S., and every other nation he would mimick, at the mercy of the friendly folks who brought the world the Gulag and its various other manifastations. It is nauseating to see the President of the United States willingly humilated by the Russians, while at the same time remaing more than willing, even fawning over, Iran, China, etc. as the leaders of these nations OPENLY declare war on their own people.
Question: please name a single President, even Jimy Carter, so lacking in courage that these regimes would announce-without any attempt to obfuscate-their murderous intentions and actions? But is it because Obama is a coward or is it because he does not care given his desire to destroy the Nation he has sworn to defend in furtherance of egalitarianism?”
PS: I agree in the remarks by Mr. Mike Rapkoch, and the previous four documents that was rejected on this blog, “U.S. Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st Century: Getting it Riight,” “Our Decaying Nuclear Deterrent,” “Arms Control Amnesia,” and “Why We Don´t Want a Nulear-Free World.”
PPS: Doug “Grammar Boy” Roberts, why don´t you compete in the ´10 Scripps National Spelling Bee (http://www.spellingbee.com/) in DC? (I think you win – you must win.)
PPPS: Doug, Iran can soon become nuclear, can you spell the name of the Iranian president, and is the correct spelling of him relevant, for the threat towards Israel, US, and the world, if Iran becomes nuclear?!
PPPPS: The hierarchy of the US nuclear deterrence responsibility: (1) Pres. Obama, (2) Congress, (3) DoD, (4) NNSA, and (5) LANS.
(2) My post dealt with:
Doug´s blog vs Frank´s blog, a critique of the Obama administration, an argument for a strong US nuclear deterrence, a critique of Doug´s fixation with grammar, the Iranian nuclear threat, and the hierarchy of the US nuclear deterrence responsibility.
PS: Doug is Doug Roberts, Frank is Frank Young.
The internet is the arena of free speech.
Norman, thanks, that was my point. And I unfortunately forgot my last sentence:
Doug, you are a censor, coward, and a hypocrite.