I think I won...
Posted on 05/31/2013 9:15:06 AM PDT by Smokeyblue
Via Judicial Watch, Bill Killian, the US Attorney for the Eastern district of Tennessee, just wants Americans to know what the consequences for free speech might be.
Special speakers for the event will be Bill Killian, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and Kenneth Moore, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Knoxville Division.
Sponsor of the event is the American Muslim Advisory Council of Tennessee — a 15-member board formed two years ago when the General Assembly was considering passing legislation that would restrict those who worship Sharia Law, which is followed by Muslims.
Killian and Moore will provide input on how civil rights can be violated by those who post inflammatory documents targeted at Muslims on social media.
“This is an educational effort with civil rights laws as they play into freedom of religion and exercising freedom of religion,” Killian told The News Monday. “This is also to inform the public what federal laws are in effect and what the consequences are.”
Killian said the presentation will also focus on Muslim culture and how, that although terrorist acts have been committed by some in the faith, they are no different from those in other religions.
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He then cited the three non-Muslim terrorists acts they can never stop talking about.
Apparently he also babbled about how the US Government, law enforcement, and non-Muslim Americans are fostering an "us versus them" attitude.
See, we're doing that.
I might say that the "us versus them" attitude certainly seems to be fostered within the Muslim community itself, but I can't, because, as you'll see, US Attorney Bill Killian wants me to know he might put me in jail for saying that.
Killian said Internet postings that violate civil rights are subject to federal jurisdiction.
“That’s what everybody needs to understand,” he said.
The specific posting he mentioned was pretty egregious -- a picture of a guy holding a shotgun with the caption "How to Wink at a Muslim."
Nevertheless, what we have here is a US Attorney telling Americans that they can be arrested and imprisoned for the exercise of their First Amendment rights.
In the aftermath of the Woolrich slaughter in England, the British police immediately arrested... a man for making anti-Muslim comments on Twitter.
And I thought, "Ah well, that's Britain. They're doomed, but we already knew that."
But here we are in America, with one of the 100 or so US federal appointed Attorneys telling Americans that the federal government may lock them up for their internet postings.
I would welcome and off the record meeting with Eric Holder but only if off the record goes both ways and no charges are filed.
the only good muslim is a dead one, they should all be exterminated!
A few beheadings, fires, riots, assassinations and we could get the same ‘respect’. /s
That’s the main difference, fear of reprisal.
I think I won...
Christianity doesn’t instruct its followers to lie to, forcibly convert, terrorize or kill non-believers. To compare a few isolated crimes where the perpetrator happens to be a Christian to systemic Islamic terrorism is totally absurd.
I can see it now....every night all across the country but especially in the South and Mid-west signs, billboards and graffiti would pop up all over the place slamming truthfully the murdering slave religion of islam.
Please, bring it on and let the ad campaign begin.
THE LEFT DO NOT UNDERSTAND AND TOTALLY UNDERESTIMATE WHO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE OUTSIDE OF LARGE CITIES!
Kiss my Obama, Mr persicuter. (To the article Smokey, not you)
see post number 5.
I thought we had equal protection under the law. Why can Democrat Dummies lie and spew hatred for Christians and Jews and face no punishment, but if we defend our own groups verbally, we are imperiled and threatened with lawsuits?
Obama and his liberal friends have total control over the population if that is indeed the case. We need to stick together and confront this atrocity that is our Justice Department.
“freedom go to hell” as the sign said in the London protests.
Who knew they would kneel to it so quickly?
Do you suppose he has been threatened?
This is pure nonsense! If they tried to enforce something like that, a decent lawyer would take them to the cleaners. We still have a Constitution fellows, and it is still in force. This isn’t Nazi Germany.
Translation of “Islam”?
“Submission.”
Islam and scientology, though completely different entities, share one important trait. They are, by necessity disguised as religions to hide their true agendas. Scientology, in the guise of a religion is an elaborate scam devised by L Ron Hubbard, a 4th-rate sci-fi writer and low-level con artist whose primary objective was to separate the rich and famous from as much of their $$$ as possible. Islam, in the guise of a religion, is an intorlerant, absolutist, tyrannical, misogynistic social order devised by mohamed, whose primary objectives were to rule the world and get laid.
Heck , the sheep have taken to wearing burkas to avoid being raped. Single sheep are required to be accompanied by a male relative when out and about.
It’s a real problem if our “leaders” as well as the population at large don’t get upset over this story.
The problem is we have a very nonintellectual population, Many think it should be illegal to say anything another person doesn’t want to hear.
beautifully said. Wish I was as good with words.
Truth is a defense right?
beautifully said. Wish I was as good with words.
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