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Here we go: McClatchy suggests limits on free speech after Texas jihad shooting
Jihadwatch.org ^ | May 5, 2015 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 05/05/2015 3:27:13 AM PDT by Biggirl

You knew this was coming. It was inevitable. We have seen it before. When the Obama Administration blamed the Benghazi jihad attack on a video about Muhammad, there were calls in the mainstream media for restrictions on the freedom of speech.

(Excerpt) Read more at jihadwatch.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: jihad; mcclatchy; posner
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1 posted on 05/05/2015 3:27:14 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

It is almost as though the blaming of the video for Benghazi was a prelude for cracking down on free speech here when his invading terrorists begin to attack.


2 posted on 05/05/2015 3:30:47 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: Biggirl

Will the American people draw the line at the 1st Amendment, or will they go back to their bread and circuses?

I’m guessing the latter, hoping I’m wrong.

But they’ve already abandoned “Free Exercise”, so “Free Speech” is no big deal. In the end the 1st Amendment will have been effectively neutered.


3 posted on 05/05/2015 3:35:21 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Biggirl

Eric Posner should relocate to a country more to his liking, like Russia or Saudi Arabia.


4 posted on 05/05/2015 3:35:59 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Truth29

You may not remember, but Posner’s FIRST country was the Soviet Union. He first came to the U.S. as a diplomatically-protected member of the KGB, with Pravda press credentials.


5 posted on 05/05/2015 3:38:50 AM PDT by Pecos (What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
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To: Biggirl

Maybe they’re on to something. Let’s start by limiting free speech with McClatchy. No? Didn’t think so libs.


6 posted on 05/05/2015 3:46:23 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Biggirl

That’s the purpose for the 2nd Amendment. Liberty for all.


7 posted on 05/05/2015 3:51:36 AM PDT by DownInFlames
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To: Pecos

That was Vladimir Posner.

Different guy.


8 posted on 05/05/2015 3:52:19 AM PDT by papertyger (Those who don't fight evil hate those who do)
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To: Biggirl

If you walk too much they’ll tax your feet.
If you think thoughts against obammy and company they’ll lock you up?


9 posted on 05/05/2015 3:54:28 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: Biggirl

How about limits on moslems in the US...more so...the world!?!


10 posted on 05/05/2015 3:56:05 AM PDT by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: Biggirl
Nobody is saying how events like this are successful in smoking out terror cells. If Muslims are so sensitive and easily inflamed, then it shouldn't be had to draw them out, right?

-PJ

11 posted on 05/05/2015 4:05:57 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Biggirl

Je suis Garland.


12 posted on 05/05/2015 4:05:59 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Biggirl

Jonathan Landay is vile person. I have personally met him at an event in DC. He is supposed to be the defense and intel reporter for McClatchy, yet one can tell is is nothing more than a Hate Bush, protect Obama and the DNC media flunkie if you read his articles.


13 posted on 05/05/2015 4:06:28 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Biggirl
What other freedoms are we going to have to give up to appease the Islamists?

Can you say, "All of them?"

14 posted on 05/05/2015 4:07:25 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: Biggirl

Domestic terror attack on Obama’s watch!

Quick—Do everything possible to divert the public’s attention.


15 posted on 05/05/2015 4:08:23 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Anything else is imagination.)
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To: Biggirl
This "some speech should be banned" nonsense is mostly a leftist dodge. Many of them don't care if Islamists kill people....they simply want to shut up conservatives.

You can bet if it were violent Christians going around killing atheist leftists who had smeared Jesus, the leftists would be up in arms demanding strict measures taken against the violent Christians and their, leftists, right to free speech (as they see it) not restricted in the least. Incredible hypocrites.

16 posted on 05/05/2015 4:43:27 AM PDT by driftless2
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"If free speech is provocative, should there be limits?,”

If shorts or a short skirt is provocative, should there be limits? Constitutional rights include protection from being seduced into committing acts considered crimes. Is there a constitutional right to incite innocents into criminal acts?

So asks the Society of Feral Fuddy-Duddies

Further..

it's a matter of . . . preserving public safety . . . when – if ever – government should intervene . . . [to enforce] exceptions from the constitutional right to [personal freedom] – [one is] “incitement” . . . “[unfortunately any] efforts to censor . . . or restrict . . . rights will just play into their agenda, which is to [seduce] and spread . . . vile [pornography].”

17 posted on 05/05/2015 4:49:29 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Biggirl

How’s the circulation at McLatchy these days ?


18 posted on 05/05/2015 5:09:23 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: papertyger

Thanks for the correction. Different name, same thought patterns?


19 posted on 05/05/2015 5:11:41 AM PDT by Pecos (What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3286302/posts England hanged William Joyce for less.


20 posted on 05/05/2015 5:45:51 AM PDT by darkangel82
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