Showing posts with label free speech in danger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free speech in danger. Show all posts

2008-01-30

Quod licet Jovi, non licet Bovi!


January 26, 2008
Editor -- THE GLOBE AND MAIL Toronto

Dear Sir,

Re: Protecting the Right to Freedom of Expression

Please excuse my cynicism, but where were the outraged Ezra Levant, Mark Steyn, Maclean's, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and a phalanx of commentators, now defending so vigorously our freedom of expression, when John Ross Taylor, Jim Keegstra, Malcolm Ross, Doug Collins, Ernst Zündel, Paul Fromm, Chief Ahenakiew and a host of lessor-known victims were viciously persecuted and impoverished for expressing their Politically Incorrect opinions? Evidently, in the hypocritical mainstream media and in Canadian politics, some citizens' rights are more worthy of protection than others, depending on whose ox is being gored, ignoring the fact that human rights, to be meaningful, must be available without fear or favor, and be enforced most conscientiously in the case of seemingly unpopular opinion, if truth and justice ultimately are to prevail.◘

▓ "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire

Ian V. Macdonald
455 Wilbrod Street, Ottawa K1N 6M7
613 241 5389

2007-07-15

Free speech on the butcher's block!



EMERGENCY ALERT!!!

HATE BILL MOVES FORWARD IN SENATE
By Rev. Ted Pike

Rev. Ted Pike is director of the National Prayer Network,

a Christian/conservative watch dog organization.

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Hoping to avoid detection from opponents in the religious right, Senators Edward Kennedy and Gordon Smith have quietly moved the federal hate crimes bill into the Senate. The Senate will vote, perhaps as early as this Tuesday on whether to include it as a "rider" on the huge federal defense bill, HR 1585. Now designated SA 2067, the new Senate hate bill is about half the length of the House version which passed the House earlier this year. But it gives its primary supporters, the Anti-Defamation League and the homosexual lobby, everything they need to end free speech in America, establishing a mammoth federal "thought crimes" bureaucracy as in Canada.

Lovers of free speech may have only one day, Monday, to persuade the Senate not to include the hate bill as a rider. If you value freedom for yourself and your children you must give top priority to calling your Senator first thing Monday morning!

►Call (1-877) 851-6437 toll free or (202) 225-3121 toll and tell your Senator: "Please don't attach Sen. Kennedy's hate crimes bill SA 2067 to the arms bill S 1585. Hate laws have taken away free speech in Canada and many European countries. If you do vote for the hate bill, I and my friends will do our best to defeat you in the next election!"

Call many other Senators! Come to www.truthtellers.org for lists of Senators who might be persuaded to vote against Kennedy and Smith's hate crimes amendment.

The hate bill needs 60 votes in order to be added to the arms bill. If we can pressure only a half dozen to vote against it, we can powerfully weaken the hate bills chance of passage. Yes, if the hate bill is defeated as an amendment, Kennedy and Smith may reintroduce it as "stand alone" legislation. Yet, having already suffered one rejection it would be much more difficult to pass. These conspirators want to move it through quickly, as "stealth" legislation. They are doing so over the weekend so that the religious right will not have time to fully mobilize on Monday. Let's not let them get away with it! -- Call, and call again, Monday morning. Take action as if your freedom and that of your children depended on it - as it surely does.

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►Let the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith teach you how they have saddled 45 states with hate laws capable of persecuting Christians: http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp.

Learn how ADL took away free speech in Canada and wants to steal it now in the U.S. Congress. Watch Rev. Ted Pike's Hate Laws: Making Criminals of Christians at video.google.com. Purchase this gripping documentary to show at church. Order online at www.truthtellers.org for $24.90, DVD or VHS, by calling 503-853-3688, or at the address below.

TALK SHOW HOSTS: Interview Rev. Ted Pike on this subject. Call (503) 631-3808.

NATIONAL PRAYER NETWORK, P.O. Box 828, Clackamas, OR 97015
www.truthtellers.org

2006-11-18

Get ready for the funeral of Free Speech

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Democrat Control Means Hate Bill Will Pass
By Rev. Ted Pike
11-15-6 -- A top Canadian "hate laws" senior policy advisor recently described the power of her country's "speech crime" tribunal courts:

"The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal is a quasi-judicial body. It can force a web to shut down or risk a $10,000 fine--$20,000 in extreme cases. If one ignores the Tribunal, one can be tried in federal court for contempt, and risk a 9-month jail sentence for a first-time offense." (Karen Izzard, quoted in Jewish Tribune, Sept. 21, 2006)
English-Turkish cyber-hate expert Prof. Yaman Akdeniz, speaking at a B'nai B'rith conference on how to end dissent on the net, rejoices that David Irving is behind bars. He said "continental European countries such as Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Hungary, Austria and Belgium have strong anti-hate laws, which have resulted in the imprisonment of hate-mongers. In Holland, 657 websites were removed. And in Germany, more than 700 hate websites were shut down." (ibid) /read the article/