NSA Tries to Shut Down Criticism of Government?
September 2, 2013
Via Mark Steyn, this is pretty interesting (and so unconstitutional): Someone creates a shirt making fun of the NSA, and puts it up for sale on Zazzle; it quickly gets yanked. Salon has the story: “The parody shirt the NSA doesn’t want you to wear”
Two days after the world learned the National Security Agency logs practically every American phone call, the agency had started cracking down on entrepreneurs who made fun of it.
Freedom of the Press under Threat in UK
March 20, 2013
A deal has been reached by all three major political parties in the United Kingdom to impose severe restrictions on the freedom of the press, apparently including the Internet. Details are still unclear,* but it seems to include an Orwellian ministry of truth that would have the power to order newspapers to issue “corrections”, letting the government replace what a paper reported with what the government says is true.
Some of the Britons or ex-Britons at National Review Online explain.
- “1771–2013: The Era of the Free Press in Britain”, John O’Sullivan
Muslim Culture Still Not Compatible with Liberty, West: U. S. Embassy and Consulate in Egypt and Libya Attacked
September 12, 2012
Yesterday, on the 11th anniversary of September 11th, “Egyptian protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy . . . , tore down the American flag and burned it” (Reuters) and “U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens was killed when Libyan militants stormed the U.S. consulate” (ABC News). (Apparently three others were also killed.) The first, and perhaps the second, was apparently prompted by the making of an independent film about Mohammed. ABC:
The attack on the consulate in Benghazi came shortly after protesters in Cairo, Egypt, scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy and tore down the American flag in an angry demonstration against a movie about the life of the Prophet Muhammad, depicting the founder of Islam as a fraud and a womanizer.
Everybody Blog about Brett Kimberlin Day
May 25, 2012
Today is Everybody Blog about Brett Kimberlin Day.
Who is Brett Kimberlin? You might begin with this review of his history from Breitbart.com.
Even if They Fail to Silence You, Leftist Intimidation Tactics Can Ruin Your Life: Brett Kimberlin Is on the Loose
May 23, 2012
So apparently this guy Brett Kimberlin has quite a criminal record, and when people publicly report on it, he gets them fired, or worse:
