Posted on 10/22/2010 6:22:17 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Whoops! Sucks to be NPR. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of people.
The Court held in Sullivan that even a false statement is protected by the First Amendment unless it is a “calculated falsehood.” http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/Press/overview.aspx
That darn federal bureaucracy has some interesting twists at times.....
This must be left-over cold war stuff. No way would the intent today to keep foreign interests from meddling and intimidating US entities, ya think?
and...
Sullivan’s recognition that the “‘freedom of expression upon public questions is secured by the First Amendment’” so that “‘debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open.’”
Like I said, this is JOB NUMBER ONE from day one of the New Republican Congress in 2011, January. New Congressional Committees need to subpoena NPR officials, and get internal documents over this firing, contact with CAIR; there could in fact be federal law violations here, precisely FARA and others. This also came to mind while I was on the packed Tokyo subway yesterday. (Lot of time to think in those situations, not much else to do). ;-)
CAIR and Soros: Muslims and Nazis.
WWII all over again.
Helen Thomas was chump change.
I wish we had some law enforcement left in our country.
If you mean the Center for Security Policy, it's a private non-profit, not a government agency.
What is the connection between PBS and NPR? The PBS classical music station I listen to carries NPR newscasts.
Yes, paging Eric Holder!
It’s the 13th Waffen SS all over again, sending their Christian comrades-in-arms to the camps.
I meant the FARA act itself- I figured these were civilian watchdogs bringing it to our attention.
Seems like lots of entities have to do the feds legwork for them anymore when it comes to abuse of actual taxpaying citizens.
I’m sure that nothing at all will come from this but it should be fun watching NPR trying to put the cork back in the bottle.
I believe they both are subsets of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
The Muslims will push and push as long as they can get away with it. And to summarize the goals of these efforts: to intimidate and bully anyone in the USA who is telling the truth about Muslims and Islam, and even to influence fools (or coreligionists) in the US government to enact punishments for anyone who tells the truth.
yeah.... but will Satan (govt) cast out Satan (NPR)?
No wonder “Progressives”,”Liberals” always seem to be unhappy. They live in a world of conflict of their own making.
Your absolutely correct. Thing are going crazy. Ice not enforcing laws, Cook county sheriff not enforcing evictions (his job BTW). Things are very strange.
Hoisted on his own petard.
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