Title: Free Speech on Freedom4um
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Published: Aug 18, 2006
Author: Christine
Post Date: 2006-08-18 12:01:37 by christine
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It is time for me to address the issue of "free speech" on Freedom4um. My free speech means that I have 100% control over what I say and everyone else has 0% control over what I say. Now, I understand that there are consequences to exercising my right to free speech, but I still retain 100% control.

Free speech means that I have a right to express or spew thoughts and words of preference, love, hate, or anything with which another may disagree. That said, the rules or policies of this forum, which is my private property (see this forum's Mission Statement), are that members can exercise free speech as long as they (1) do not make a specific threat against an identifiable person or target, (2) earnestly debate or discuss the relevant issues that are part and parcel of this forum's reason-to-be. Let me remind you that these are rules for this forum and, as such, do not necessarily apply off of this forum, as public laws should, in most cases, be even less restrictive than private property rules and regulations.

Again, free speech on this forum means that people can express their love or hatred for anyone, any group, any race, any culture, or any thing, as long as they adhere to the two contingencies listed above. Everyone else on this forum is similarly at liberty to exercise their free speech right to challenge, debate, argue, or agree with the ideas and speech of another.

We will not censor speech as we abhor political correctness and authoritarianism as well as those thought-control and speech-control tyrants who would restrict another's speech. Any limitation on thought and speech constitutes the first level of the destruction of all remaining rights. Afterall, the framers of the Constitution believed that free speech was the most fundamental right to be protected which was the reason that they placed it FIRST in the Bill of Rights.

I do not say this lightly, but anyone who cannot handle the content of another's speech may not be suitable for this forum. Such a person may be better suited for a forum whose moderators control and steer the forum's ideas and speech in a given direction.

Many people have no concept of what Free Speech and Freedom really mean. Do you?

ANN COULTER

Ann Coulter: Vicious & Ignorant

Ann Coulter: Her Excuse
Ann Coulter: Her Column
Ann Coulter: Her Excuse Debunked
Ann Coulter: Her Ignorance

Ann Coulter's controversial statement in her column that "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity" is not the least of Coulter's sins.

Ann Coulter: Her Excuse

Coulter claims that she wasn't speaking of all Muslims:

Coulter says her line about "convert them to Christianity" has been misconstrued and was aimed at those celebrating the attacks. "I wasn't talking about Muslims generally," she says. "I was talking about the crazed homicidal maniacs dancing in the streets."
[The Washington Post, October 2, 2001]

Ann Coulter: Her Column

Let's look at the full context in which Coulter made her infamous declaration:

Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
[="
" href="http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/ac20010914.shtml">Town Hall, September 14, 2001]

A fair reading could be that Ann Coulter wasn't explicitly referring to all Muslims, but that the "they" referred back to those in the streets of Arab nations who were celebrating the World Trade Center attacks.

Coulter's statement as thus interpreted is, of course, still outrageous.

Ann Coulter: Her Excuse Debunked

While Coulter can maybe get away with parsing her own text here, I wonder if any commentators on this brouhaha have taken what Coulter said in her column together with what she said on Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect September 25:

Ann Coulter: What's different about Germany than here, but I think is more similar to Japan and ought to be the model, is that Germany at least had a wealth of civilization prior to the Third Reich and it had a respect for human life, something that was not as noticeable in Japan. And one of the things General MacArthur did, he considered converting the emperor to Christianity. Decided not to because he thought there would be a fight between Catholics and Presbyterians. But General MacArthur called in thousands of Christian missionaries. He distributed thousands of Bibles. It wasn't as much of a success story as the Christian missionaries were in Korea after the Korean War, but you know how it was a success story? They have unprecedented religious freedom there, something that is absent in every Muslim country. In fact --
[="
" href="http://abc.go.com/primetime/politicallyincorrect/transcripts/transcript_20 010925.html">Transcript of Politically Incorrect, September 25, 2001, emphasis added]

This shows Coulter would like to apply her conversion concept to entire countries, such as she believes was done in Japan.

Ann Coulter: Her Ignorance

Moreover, Coulter, as the following dialogue, in relevant portions, makes clear, continues to put her foot in her mouth, with respect to her claims -- begun above -- that Arab countries have never had any "civilization," nor a history of tolerance for other religions: ("Jerry" is producer/journalist Jerry Nachman, and "Eric" is Eric Braeden, star of "The Young and the Restless."):

Eric: We have to allow the tolerant part of Islam to flourish. In other words, establish Democratic institutions and
then --

Ann Coulter: What tolerant part of Islam?

Eric: Islam has an enormous history.

Ann Coulter: Where is that in evidence in the Middle East right now?

Eric: Do you know anything about the history of the Middle East?

Bill: Islam was the most flourishing civilization in the middle ages. When Western Europeans were shivering and cowering and cast behind --

Ann Coulter: Fine, they invented the flying buttress, but they don't have a history of tolerance. That's the point --

Eric: She's absolutely wrong. Excuse me. You are wrong.

Ann Coulter: Well, then, name --

Eric: Historically, you are wrong. In all the Muslim countries, they allow Judaism to flourish and Christianity to flourish.

Ann Coulter: That's not true.

Eric: That is absolutely true.

Bill: Before --

Eric: In these kinds of countries right now, they don't. But in most Muslim countries in the past, they have allowed religious freedom.

Jerry: The Taliban is an exception, correct?

Eric: That's the problem.

Jerry: Ask any Jew who used to live in Iraq or Syria or Egypt until 20 or 30 years ago.

Ann Coulter's ignorance of history is amazing -- ignorance of the flourishing, advanced Arab civilization in the past, and of the religious tolerance toward Christianity and Judaism which was its hallmark.

Ann Coulter: not only vicious, but ignorant.

[I won't even address here Coulter's bloodthirsty analogizing to Germany in World War II in order to support her contention that we should carpet-bomb Afghanistan and not be concerned with civilian casualties. On the inappropriateness of Coulter's analogy, see Ann Coulter's Bombing Germany Analogy Not Applicable to Afghanistan.]

More on the War on Terrorism

UPDATE: In her book Slander -- indeed in most of what she writes and says -- Ann Coulter takes what sounds like the ill-tempered blustering of a barroom drunk and offers it as serious political commentary. But she's no barroom drunk. At least the barroom drunk would be embarrassed the next day and apologize for such remarks

LOL! Just turn on most any AM talk radio show for a rundown of Muslim conspiracies by Mike Streicher-Savage-Wiener and Co for that advertisement. Funny thing is they ignore the Zionist domination of media and government.

"We can make a natural alliance through the ownership of the great industries of the world and through the sharing of their profits." -Lord Charles Beresford, in a 1903 speech to the (Anglo-American-Jewish) Pilgrims Society.

well, at least whores are honest traders, so ethically, not morally,, but ethically speaking they are head and shoulders above political hacks.

morally they are still better off, because they are consistent within their professed beliefs. they are not hypocrites, but are true to their beliefs.

I went to the park and saw this kid flying a kite. The kid was really excited. I don't know why, that's what they're supposed to do. Now if he had had a chair on the other end of that string, I would have been impressed. -Mitch Hedberg

Why don't you just cut to the chase and list some of these so-called "known, repeat-offenders" you want Christine and Zipporah to ban, instead of whining like a little girl?

Go on, show us who these evil "liars and attackers" are that you feel need to be silenced.

Truth is an extremely difficult subject. Just because it's difficult does not reduce to that the truth varies from person to person or from day to day. Kinda basic. Some know truth better than others. But again, I've said what I came to say above.

The 3 of them certainly have helped in the destruction of the GOP, one of the goals of the NeoCommies.

"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country."

Hate, my friend, is an appropriate emotion when directed at people who diligently work to usurp our freedom. We need more of it today, not less.

I have no interest in engaging in a food fight over Ann Coulter. A little balance and perspective is all that I ask.

Ann Coulter is a lying whore that will say whatever she needs to say to keep her masters happy. Your desire for the "truth" should start with seeing her for who and what she really is.

Hate will burn you up like one of those vampires exposed to the sun that you see in the "B" flics.

Good lord..........it honestly sounds like she couldn't get into the pants of the ME fella she was dating.......she's sexually frustrated......and can't seem to understand that there is something about her that is repulsive and revolting to men.......her mouth and her brain for openers! Sheesh........what a witch.

So what are you, a high priest? I don't do hypotheticals, at least not at the moment.

Keeping a job in academia is fraught with political infighting and backstabbing.

You're more than welcome. She lies. She's a media whore. Hence, she's a lying whore.

Well then, shall I go gentle into that good night with the walking lobotomized? No thanks, that isn't part of my DNA sequence, nor is it a part of others I consider friends

Anyone can find objectionable material by someone who is so widely published as Ann Coulter and if you do not appreciate her very cutting humor, then you don't appreciate it. And I am done commenting on Ann Coulter as I would only be repeating myself. Think what you like.

ROTF..........you're not nearly as clever as you believe you are. When you figure out how to get your foot out of your mouth, an answer would be of interest....you know....the truthseekers here and around the world would like to be able to assimilate what they see on the board, chew it around, and come up with the truth as they see it.

No doubt some would stand alongside the weasel worder, but there are way too many folks here who actually do this and will come to the conclusion they've heard this 'I don't do hypothetical' bullshit from those who can't answer and face the truth that what they have been saying is B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T trying to be passed off as merely processed steer manure.

No, in your post #34, you said you want certain "repeat offender" posters banned.

Name them, and explain why. Or are you afraid of what an asshole it will make you look like in front of the rest of us?

"My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that's because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism."

I couldn't care less how I look to you or anyone else here. And why should you be anything but ignored?

Someone come up with the words to a new song Burning Bandwith to be sung to the country tune Burning Bridges.

How disappointing........you were so cocksure of yourself as it regards liars and the truth and banning of those repeat offenders. And yet you can't be bothered to even toss an answer out there; or *gasp*

whisper that you perhaps spoke too hastily?

I'm not the one whining for certain posters to be banned, you are. Name them, if you've got the stones.

What's funny about "the benefits of local fascism"? It just got Christopher Bollyn beat up and arrested in Chicago.

to attempt anything else, is a profane contradiction and the insignia of insanity, without hyperbole.

it is as a farmer who loves and is responsible for his crop, yet refuses to remove the worms that eat his corn. then he blames the fates, the gods, the spirits, the universe, the divine plan of ghosts he has never seen, but never blaming himself for the result- that his field has turned to dust and his corn is gone, and the worms he would not remove have multiplied beyond enumeration, like the grains of sand of the sea. a promiscious love is one of no value. and to hate that which attempts to destroy love, life, liberty, is not only correct, is it vital to furtherance of existence of an organism, either political or otherwise. consider, microcosmically, the white cells of the body, which must destroy that which threatens life in order for the organism to survive. it is not anger or hate that causes the problems, but false love, ...as the false love of a farmer who refuses to remove the worms who destroy the crops he claims to love while he watches them being destroyed. a false love, indistinguishable in the end result from hate itself. judging the tree by its fruit, so to speak then. tsarion states this is due to ego fixation, in the extent one will refuse to acknowledge the darkness, in fear, remaining in the 'light', which ironically, gives free reign to the darkness.

if one contemplates it...in fact, a righteous anger, a cleansing flame, is a repeated theme throughout spiritual teaching.

i am always amused at the christians who speak of christ as this man of peace. i ask them then of the braiding of cords, and whipping the moneychangers in the temple, overturning their tables, etc...a righteous anger, a cleansing flame. today, such activity is vandalism against the state, or in a temple, surely religious bigotry.

so, then, it is not proper, somehow, to hate evil, to hate child molestors, to hate corruption and falsehood, to hate that which seeks the destruction of self and family? to seek its end and elimination, as a white cells seeks destruction of diseased cells or else have the organism as a whole perish?

this is the bumpersticker philosophy new age drivel that is thoughtless and the handmaiden of luciferianism....an agent and catalyst for evil that diguises itself as goodwill and love.

and all evil has been allowed to manifest and grow by those who did not hate it. not indicating violence, but despising it for its very nature, as gandhi did, or christ.

those who say hate has no place against evil have confessed that there is no value to love.

The same can be said for Communism, Zionism and the Fractional Reserve banking that's fed both.

very well said...there's a poem about righteous anger that i've posted before and i'll be darn if i can find it again and i can't remember its author. do you know it?