Free Speech, Foul Actions

Hugh Hewitt: Rewarding the unbalanced with media attention guarantees more violence
On the wall in my studio, above the phones the interns work to screen callers to the program, is a list with scores of names on it. These are the callers who are not allowed to voice their opinions on the program. Many are simply lonely and bored would-be opinionators who spend their days calling every Talk Show they can. Some are Extremists from both ends of the political spectrum. Others are obsessives who defy categorization and for whom any day is a day to expound on a single, overarching e...

Paul Szep: The Daily Szep- Free Speech
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Clinton urges more tolerance, less extremism
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says that dangerous Extremism can exist in many societies and pointed to the Assassination attempt on an American congresswoman. Speaking on an Arabic Talk Show hosted by women, Clinton urged more openness, tolerance and development in the Middle East to blunt extremism, especially among Arab youth. She said such problems are universal, and noting the recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Gif...

Hillary Clinton Urges More Tolerance, Less Extremism
Monday, January 10, 2011 By Staff, Associated Press (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says that dangerous Extremism can exist in many societies and pointed to the Assassination attempt on an American congresswoman. Speaking on an Arabic Talk Show hosted by women, Clinton urged more openness, tolerance and development in the Middle East to blunt extremism, especially among Arab youth. She said such problems are universal, and noting the recent shooting of Arizona Congress...

Hillary Clinton on Tucson shooting: 'That is not who we are'
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, during the first stop in a four-day Middle Eastern tour, expressed solidarity with Arabs in battling domestic Extremists, citing Saturday's attempted Assassination of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) as an example of extremist-inspired violence in the United States. "That is not who you are and that is not who we are," Clinton said during a television Talk Show in which she took questions from audience members. "We have to make clear that this does not repr...

Clinton urges more tolerance, less extremism (AP)
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says that dangerous Extremism can exist in many societies and pointed to the Assassination attempt on an American congresswoman. Speaking on an Arabic Talk Show hosted by women, Clinton urged more openness, tolerance and development in the Middle East to blunt extremism, especially among Arab youth. She said such problems are universal, and noting the recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffor...

Clinton urges more tolerance, less extremism
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, front, looks for a member of her team as she walks with Emirates' Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, right rear, at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday Jan.10, 2011. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says that dangerous Extremism can exist in many societies and pointed to the Assassination attempt on an American congresswoman. Speaking on an Arabic Talk Show hosted by women, Clinton urged mor...

Clinton: Arab world must confront Iran (AP)
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that sanctions have slowed Iran's efforts to develop atomic weapons and accused the country of trying to foment new conflict in the Middle East to distract attention from its nuclear ambitions. On the first stop of a three-nation tour of the Persian Gulf, Clinton said the Arab World in particular should act to sharpen enforcement of the sanctions and reject attempts to stoke Mideast tensions. She...

Even violent rhetoric is still free speech
**Posted by Phineas Jack Shafer has a great rebuttal in Slate to assertions by the Left that violent Rhetoric and imagery are to blame for the mass-murder in Tucson, yesterday. His point is that our Political Speech is often over-the-top, but only the shooter is to blame for what he did — In Defense of Inflamed Rhetoric : For as long as I’ve been alive, crosshairs and bull’s-eyes have been an accepted part of the graphical lexicon when it comes to political debates. Such “...

Free Speech and Quasi-Eliminationist Rhetoric
Jack Shafer’s column about Speech in the wake of the attempted Assassination of Gabrielle Giffords conflates several different claims into a broad argument about free speech.   Some of these claims are sensible and some less so.   Let me try to untangle The Knot: I agree with Shafer that proposals (like Bob Brady’s) to ban Speech that falls short of a direct threat are a really bad idea. Having said that, I think Shafer implicitly overstates the extent to which people are calling

Free Speech, But Not Without Consequences
This is the statement of Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik that Jon Kyl can’t abide. Kyl thinks that his statement was “inappropriate for a Law Enforcement briefing”. Dupnik made no direct connection between hateful Rhetoric and the shooter. But he did reference the climate of hatred that’s been stirred up in Arizona. The broken windows, the death threats and all the other awful stuff that happens in this environment of hate takes time away from more productive law en...

Pima County Sheriff Sets Off Debate on Price of Free Speech
Heightened and vitriolic political Rhetoric is being blamed by some for the kind of violence that has landed Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in intensive care following a mass casualty shooting on Saturday, but others say a blame game is hardly appro......

DENMARK'S GOVERNMENT IS TURNING OUT THE LIGHTS ON FREE SPEECH
Diana West informs us that Denmark, once considered a beacon for free Speech, is now under threat of eliminating it by the government that's turning against it. She presents a letter from the Danish Free Press Society: Free speech is under attack in Denmark. Please help us preserve it. Those who have been following the Danish cartoon crisis and several subsequent attempts by radical Muslims to kill and bomb Danes and Danish institutions may be excused fo...

Denmark's government is turning out the lights on free speech
Diana West informs us that Denmark, once considered a beacon for free Speech, is now under threat of eliminating it by the government that's turning against it. She presents a letter from the Danish Free Press Society: Free speech is under attack in Denmark. Please help us preserve it. Those who have been following the Danish cartoon crisis and several subsequent attempts by radical Muslims to kill and bomb Danes and Danish institutions may be excused for believing that Denmark is in the foref...

Tunisian protests continue, no violence seen
The killings marked the deadliest in a wave of unrest which has lasted nearly a month. Those taking part say they are angry at the lack of jobs for Young People and what they perceive as a heavy-handed reaction by authorities in controlling the Protests. Officials say the unrest is the work of a minority of violent Extremists in a country where President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's Rally for Constitution and Democracy (RCD) largely dominates the political landscape. They also defended the police ...

Tunisian protests continue, no violence seen
TUNIS | Mon Jan 10, 2011 6:50am EST TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisians continued to Protest against the government on Monday, but there was no sign of the deadly violence between demonstrators and police that at the weekend led to the deaths of at least 14 civilians. The killings marked the deadliest in a wave of unrest which has lasted nearly a month. Those taking part say they are angry at the lack of jobs for Young People and what they perceive as a heavy-handed reaction by authorities in control...

No Easy Answer
Since no one knows yet if right-wing Rhetoric played any twisted — and wholly unintended — role in triggering Jared Lee Johnson’s horrific massacre, the discussion of the influence of that Rhetoric is massively premature. But it is also unavoidable. I don’t think that questioning the possible role of political discourse in this tragedy merely represents callous opportunism on the part of the Left; it is a salutary human instinct after a tragedy of this dimension to search...

Swiss banker who helped WikiLeaks faces trial
Rudolf Elmer has been ordered to appear before a Zurich regional court on Jan. 19 to answer charges of coercion and violating Switzerland’s strict banking secrecy laws. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to three years in Prison and fined. Elmer’s release of files from the Swiss-based bank Julius Baer’s offshore operations in the Cayman Islands prompted a U.S. judge to temporarily shut down Wikileaks in 2008. The order was lifted following complaints from free Speech gro...

Iceland Summons U.S. Envoy Over Demand for MP's Twitter Details (WikiLeaks)
Source: Guardian UK Iceland summons US Envoy over demand for MP's Twitter details Reykjavik calls for explanation of Justice Department's move to access account of politician caught up in Wikileaks inquiry Dominic Rushe guardian.co.uk, Sunday 9 January 2011 18.44 GMT The American ambassador to Iceland has been summoned to explain why US officials are trying to access the Twitter account of an Icelandic MP and former Wikileaks collaborator. Birgitta Jónsdóttir, an MP for the Movement in Iceland, ..

Swiss banker who helped WikiLeaks faces trial
Rudolf Elmer has been ordered to appear before a Zurich regional court on Jan. 19 to answer charges of coercion and violating Switzerland's strict banking secrecy laws. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to three years in Prison and fined. Elmer's release of files from the Swiss-based bank Julius Baer's offshore operations in the Cayman Islands prompted a U.S. judge to temporarily shut down Wikileaks in 2008. The order was lifted following complaints from free Speech groups and media orga...

Professor: I Called 911 on Loughner in Class
Says She Called Police in Sept. after He Ranted about Constitution, Freedom of Speech Like this Story? Share it: Debbie Scheidemantel, an adjunct Professor at Pima Community College, spoke to co-anchor Erica Hill on "The Early Show" about an incident she had in her classroom with alleged shooter Jared Loughner. (CBS) (CBS) TUSCON -- Debbie Scheidemantel got to know Jared Loughner when he was a Student in her biology class at Tucson's Pima Community College last summer. The adjunct Professor sa...

Swiss banker who helped WikiLeaks faces trial
Rudolf Elmer has been ordered to appear before a Zurich regional court on Jan. 19 to answer charges of coercion and violating Switzerland's strict banking secrecy laws. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to three years in Prison and fined. Elmer's release of files from the Swiss-based bank Julius Baer's offshore operations in the Cayman Islands prompted a U.S. judge to temporarily shut down Wikileaks in 2008. The order was lifted following complaints from free Speech groups and media org...

AZ Sheriff: Vitriolic remarks may have some responsibility in shooting
Stumble This! An Arizona sheriff responsible for investigating the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and 18 others isn't backing down from assigning some responsibility to vitriolic remarks by public figures. Appearing on ABC News Monday, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik stood by earlier remarks that "vitriolic statements" made on radio and TV created a dangerous climate in Arizona that inspired 22-year-old Jared Loughner, the man accused of shooting Giffords. "You've been very busy...

Mental health and Giffords shooting
It is time to have a dialogue about Mental Health in this country. The ACLU and other liberal groups have made it impossible to treat those who are ill and need mental health care. Under the rubric of freedom, they are allowed to act out in ways that are detrimental to themselves as well as Society.We are conceding the rights of the majority to the minority once again. The drumbeat that we must be more civil is nonsense. To say we must restrain our comments because someone out the...

Clinton Compares AZ Shooting To Islamic Terrorism
Apparently, religious fanaticism and organized Terrorism are the same as individual acts of violence. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told a meeting in Abu Dhabi that Extremism was a global problem following the Arizona shooting of US lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords. During her Gulf tour, Clinton paused to reflect on Saturday's tragedy, which took the lives of six people and injured another 14, including US Republican Gabrielle Giffords who was shot in the head at point-blank range. "Lo...