4um: Gingrich Says Govt May Have To Limit Free Speech In Terror War

Title: Gingrich Says Govt May Have To Limit Free Speech In Terror War
Source: Boston Globe / Union Leader
URL Source: http://www.unionleader.com/article. ... 4e-1e90-475a-b1b0-bbcd5baedd78
Published: Nov 28, 2006
Author: Boston Globe / Union Leader
Post Date: 2006-11-28 10:16:38 by Brian S
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MANCHESTER, N.H. --Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich used a New Hampshire event dedicated to freedom of speech to say the United States will have to re-examine that constitutional right as it fights terrorism.

Speaking in Manchester last night, Gingrich said the country may need a different set of rules to reduce terrorists' ability to use the Internet and free speech to recruit and get out their message.

The former speaker also said he won't decide whether to run for president until September 2007.

Gingrich raises alarm at event honoring those who stand up for freedom of speech

MANCHESTER – Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich yesterday said the country will be forced to reexamine freedom of speech to meet the threat of terrorism.

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Gingrich, speaking at a Manchester awards banquet, said a "different set of rules" may be needed to reduce terrorists' ability to use the Internet and free speech to recruit and get out their message.

"We need to get ahead of the curve before we actually lose a city, which I think could happen in the next decade," said Gingrich, a Republican who helped engineer the GOP's takeover of Congress in 1994.

Gingrich spoke to about 400 state and local power brokers last night at the annual Nackey S. Loeb First Amendment award dinner, which fetes people and organizations that stand up for freedom of speech.

Gingrich sharply criticized campaign finance laws he charged were reducing free speech and doing little to fight attack advertising. He also said court rulings over separation of church and state have hurt citizens' ability to express themselves and their faith.

Last night's event, held at the Radisson Hotel-Center of New Hampshire, honored a Lakes Region newspaper and a former speaker of the House for work in favor of free expression.

The Citizen of Laconia was given the Nackey S. Loeb First Amendment Award, which is named after the longtime President and Publisher of the Union Leader Corporation, owner of New Hampshire's statewide newspaper.

The Citizen scrutinized the Newfound Area School Board beginning last year over a series of e-mail discussions held before public meetings. It also used the right-to-know law to uncover costly decisions by the town of Tilton this year.

Executive Editor John Howe said the decision to pursue the stories led to at least one advertiser canceling its business with the paper.

"We try to practice what we preach, even if it costs us business," Howe said. "And it has and it will in the future.

Also honored was Marshall Cobleigh, former House speaker and a longtime aide to former Gov. Meldrim Thomson.

Cobleigh introduced an amendment to the state Constitution defending free speech. He also helped shepherd the state's 1967 right-to-know law through the Legislature.

Gingrich's speech focused on the First Amendment, but in an interview beforehand, he also hit upon wide-ranging topics.

Gingrich said America has "failed" in Iraq over the past three years and urged a new approach to winning the conflict. The U.S. needs to engage Syria and Iran and increase investment to train the Iraqi army and a national police force, he said. "How does a defeat for America make us safer?" Gingrich said. "I would look at an entirely new strategy." He added: "We have clearly failed in the last three years to achieve the kind of outcome we want."
Political parties in Presidential primary states should host events that invite candidates from both parties to discuss issues, said Gingrich, who criticized the sharpness of today's politics.
Gingrich said voters unhappy with the war, the response to Hurricane Katrina and pork barrel spending were the main drive behind the GOP's rejection at the polls. But he argued Republicans would have retained the Senate and just narrowly lost the House if President Bush had announced the departure of embattled Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld before, instead of after, the election.
Gingrich said he will not decide whether he is running for President until September 2007.

The event last night was sponsored by the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications. The school was founded in 1999 to promote journalism and other forms of communication.

Why does Gingrich think it would be worse to lose a city than to lose freedom of speech?

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

Just as there is no money in peace or freedom, there is also no money in a healthy Amerika - - IndieTX

the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal bread.

And I imagine he was in New Hampshire in the first place because he wants to be president.

The only way this guy gets the White House is if the Democrats nominate an utterly useless divisive tool with no talent whatsoever...

the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal bread.

"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
---Henry Kissinger, New York Times, October 28, 1973

Did anyone notice his division of free speech into campaign contributions which we need more of and criticism from the dissidents who are tired of all these damn wars, the loss of our Bill of Rights and a collapsing dollar which means global depression and a really big war to end all wars and human life?

Did anyone also notice that he seems to know that the next "terrorist event" will involve the loss of a city?

If the city is D.C. at a time when Bush is in Crawford but Congress is in session, that could eliminate a lot of the Republicans' problems.

"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
---Henry Kissinger, New York Times, October 28, 1973

I thought that was funny. He's such a rich man's agenda driven tool he doesn't even know he's a tool.

the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal bread.

The national nightmare has ended... Now begins two years of watching the Congress play "Kick the Gimp".

Nackey Loeb would be the first in line to use a rope after hearing a statement like that.

Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org

Because the Constitution means nothing to the dirty rotten sonofabitch! He didn't care a jot or tittle about sovereignty when he led the charge to get nafta/gatt/wto thru congress. He testified himself to the House Ways and Means committee that we'd be giving up a good chunk of sovereignty, but that it was worth it.

"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi

Apparently, not the kind that includes open communication and freedom of the press.

"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi

There is a logic to this. Nothing hurts the GOP like a free flow of informaton. If this free flow of information is cut off, then the GOP can easily feed the goobers whatever shit it wants to feed them. This will assure the GOP a place of power. And we all know that the GOP is best for protecting Americans against that big scary boogeyman that must not be examined too closely.

"There are some people, and I'm one of them, that believe George Bush was placed where he is by the Lord. I don't care how he governs, I will support him. I'm a Republican through and through."

Congratulations. Not too many people even know who the Toffler's are, much less the fact that Newt is a devotee.

I remember being a big Gingrich fan back in the days of the faux Republican Revolution. That is until one day I heard Newt speaking at some event on C- Span. He was singing the virtues of the Toffler's and their "Third Way." He was absolutely enthralled with them and their views. His whole speech was spent speaking about their genius. I rushed out and purchased the Third Way and Future Shock, thinking I was going to be enlightened in some way. I was shocked that Newt was touting 21st century central planning collectivism. There is and was no third way. It's the same ol' leftist BS wrapped up in sociological gobbly-gook. Social engineering, central planning and of course collectivism to pay for it all.

"Yours are the eyes through which the compassion of Christ must look out on the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless his people" - St. Teresa of Avila.

What a moral character, to hoist him on his own petard; divorcing his wife on her deathbed, having an affair* while acting holierthanthoupreachy and the holy roller.

Yeah, I knew Newt was a fraud once I learned he adored these two fruitcakes. How right we were.