tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post9196010153870322222..comments2023-12-28T06:30:48.808-05:00Comments on The Rule of Reason: Come and Get It, HillaryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-28703769765764958162012-09-22T13:50:55.018-04:002012-09-22T13:50:55.018-04:00Some free speech on the subject:
http://www.youtu...Some free speech on the subject:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCXHPKhRCVg<br /><br />Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06198703192380634595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-24583602004996942982012-09-15T22:29:19.439-04:002012-09-15T22:29:19.439-04:00And speaking of "possible domestic backlashes...And speaking of "possible domestic backlashes" (as I did, in my comment above), there is this:<br /><br />http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Calif-filmmaker-I-won-t-return-to-besieged-home-3867557.php<br /><br />From which, I quote:<br /><br />'The Riverside County man who was a script adviser to the film [Innocence of Muslims] and who has a long history of anti-Islamic activism told the Press-Enterprise newspaper that he has received multiple death threats.<br /><br />' "I'm really tired," Steven Klein said when he answered the door of his home in Hemet, Calif., Friday with a pistol in his hand and clad only in a pair of white shorts stained with what appeared to be ink spots.<br /><br />'The newspaper said Klein, a Vietnam veteran, appeared agitated. While waving the gun, he told the newspaper he was standing up for his First Amendment rights in helping with the film and said he is prepared to die for those rights.'<br /><br />And he's quite right, to so "prepare".<br /><br />Now picture 1,000--or 100,000--Steven Kleins. There's your backlash. jayeldeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08300130228450096823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-44403865433336135072012-09-14T20:27:00.048-04:002012-09-14T20:27:00.048-04:00lThanks for this, Edward. Conscientious, rational,...lThanks for this, Edward. Conscientious, rational, free-thinkers of all races and nationalities must stand up to primitive, violent Islam. It isn't enough to agree, silently, with the cautious, appeasing "moderates" of the sundry political parties, talking-head news networks and kowtowing bloggers. Individuals must state, publicly, and in no uncertain terms, that they are not afraid of a 7th-century ghost and his modern-day slaves, slaveholders and bomb-throwers.<br /><br />I wrote a little tune called "The Mohammed Song" in 2006, at the height of the Jyllands-Posten cartoon controversy, and uploaded the video to YouTube. In addition to the few-thousand views it received, a hundred or so Islamist crazies, spewing comical, hysterical, primitive English, threatened in the comments to hunt me down, cut off my head, rape my mother, rape my sister, rape my sheep, burn down my house and, incidentally, to annihilate America and all her filthy infidels. I laughed and laughed. Did I take them seriously? Nope. Did they succeed in raping and murdering me and my family and my livestock? Negative. Is America still here? Yup.<br /><br />I hope Americans of conscience and backbone (and all civilized people of the world) will speak out against violent religions of all stripes, nationalities and deities. If anyone reading this wishes to see my most recent and updated--but, probably, not the last--version of "The Mohammed Song," just click my name and follow the webpage link.<br /><br />Thanks again, Edward. Who's afraid of the big, bad Mo? Not you, and not me.<br /><br />Ed<br />Only Ed and The AlmostEdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06188622297744653212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-47624549257244646362012-09-13T11:27:41.774-04:002012-09-13T11:27:41.774-04:00“Many observers, columnists and pundits have been ...“Many observers, columnists and pundits have been wondering for months just what the Obama administration was planning as a reelection-salvaging event. Most hypothesized that it would [be] a Syrian intervention. <br /><br />”Surprise. It is a doubling down on the ‘necessity’ of censorship to prevent more ‘violence.’ “<br /><br />Possible, but it seems improbable—that is, as a “salvaging” ploy. If the administration is involved in this (and nothing would surprise me), it would seem more likely that the motive is to set the stage for some dramatic swashbuckling; like, you know, moving battleships around, and dispatching some marines thither and yon, and stuff like that—and then, to pull off a few “dramatic” drone strikes, a bit closer to Election Day.<br /><br />I think the full scale assault on free speech--the stage for which is now being set, as you’ve amply demonstrated--is more likely to occur during a second term, when the cost of a possible domestic backlash (well, one can hope, can’t one?) would be vastly reduced: that is, with no reelection at stake. Which is a very good reason (should we need another) to jettison this bunch, and bring in Whatsisname, and HIS bunch.<br />jayeldeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08300130228450096823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-79684117940946364242012-09-13T10:32:44.101-04:002012-09-13T10:32:44.101-04:00In my most pessimisstic moods I hope Israel will a...In my most pessimisstic moods I hope Israel will at least wait for the day of the presidential election to strike Iran, and or report a strike, so no pretense whatsoever can be used for a possible emergency suspension of elections.Tad M Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07937682418709703549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-48370023444095938992012-09-13T01:52:17.293-04:002012-09-13T01:52:17.293-04:00Thanks for doing the work of journalism that so ma...Thanks for doing the work of journalism that so many American reporters just won't do, along with excellent analysis. You shed needed light on the seemingly "spontaneous" outpourings of hatred, savagery and destruction in Libya and Egypt. I don't think they'll win in the end, but as we saw yesterday, a lot of collateral damage can occur in the meantime.Roxannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03435540465525163551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-16453582339144510762012-09-12T21:03:03.191-04:002012-09-12T21:03:03.191-04:00The past day and a half has been like watching the...The past day and a half has been like watching the pieces of a steel trap slam inexorably into place. You just dropped in the last, key, piece: the OIC's "extraordinary" -- and I just bet it was! -- Islamic Summit Conference barely a month ago, focused on the eradication of "Islam phobia". <br /><br />The trap is already being sprung, with the grotesque spectacle of the Joint Chief of Staff strong-arming a bible-thumping Florida preacher who, if he resists the pressure, will display a kind of courage of which the general is no longer capable:<br /><br />http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49011703<br /><br />So yes, bring it on. The worst mistake they can make is springing that trap and imposing outright censorship. Because now any of us who still harbored the hope that we were being paranoid about this will know that it is real, and what we must do.<br /><br />And just a thought, but it's easier to try to shut us up when you know where to find us...revereridesagainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13443013401059011056noreply@blogger.com