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Al Jazeera (What is Arabic for meeeeeeoooooowwwwwwww?)
Author | 16_09-2004 | Martin Ridley

Posted on 09/16/2004 9:26:25 AM PDT by MartinRidley

Its seems odd that country proclaiming a commitment to Freedom supports the closure of the only real free press in most of the middle east - Al Jazeera. Even Alister Campbell aplogist for the UK governement and a supporter of muting the TV station during the invasion of Iraq now agrees how important the station is to free speech.

So all of you neo-cons with your spin on Freedom for the Iraqi people how about letting them watch what ever TV station they wish to switch on. And let Al Jazeera report from Iraqi what has an emerging democracy ocuupied by freedom loving democracies got to fear from free sppech


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To: MartinRidley

And you UK liberals are just as wrong.
You are a marginalised group, and who cares what you think.
I bet you're still sorry WWII was won by our side, aren't you?


121 posted on 09/16/2004 11:04:39 AM PDT by Darksheare (Freedom is worth ALL of our lives if it frees even ONE person.)
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To: Happygal; dighton

I don't think this is a genuine UK liberal.

It has a pure American Posing Troll accent. Do you hear it?


122 posted on 09/16/2004 11:04:57 AM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: Repairman Jack

I agree with your point, and we are also lock up forigners like you without due process.

I don't agree with those provisions in UK law you have better freedom of press lawa in the USA. Ironicaly though you bomb and close down or get your client to close down a TV stations reporters in Iraq you couldnt and dont stop AL Jazeera operating in the USA. Incidently USA politicians use Al Jazeera to reach a wide arab audience in the middle east through debate on current afdairs programs.

You should care what people think


123 posted on 09/16/2004 11:05:51 AM PDT by MartinRidley
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To: MartinRidley

"I can tell how it it really was and is.... and might be"
Your version of history is skewed and wrong.
You have yet to say anything historically accurate.
And your prognostication is likely to be just as wrong.


124 posted on 09/16/2004 11:06:13 AM PDT by Darksheare (Freedom is worth ALL of our lives if it frees even ONE person.)
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To: Mark Felton
>> No broadcast entity that promotes the overthrow of a government, encourages violence or promotes the messages of enemies of the State should be allowed to brodcast. They should be in jail.

I agree, but how do we convince the US government that Dan Blather belongs in JAIL?!?!?

Oh wait, we were talking about something else! :)

125 posted on 09/16/2004 11:06:24 AM PDT by MarineBrat
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To: MartinRidley; Admin Moderator; Sidebar Moderator; Lead Moderator

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzot!!


126 posted on 09/16/2004 11:06:57 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (http://www.osurepublicans.com)
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To: MartinRidley

Tell me, would you grant terrorists the same rights as citizens given they are there not to better the country but to kill you instead?
Terrorists deserve the death of spies.


127 posted on 09/16/2004 11:07:45 AM PDT by Darksheare (Freedom is worth ALL of our lives if it frees even ONE person.)
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To: MartinRidley
Inquistion was in action at least up to the end of the 18th Century (maybe hjail rather than burning)

Limited to what few countries, and what few punishments? The Inquisition of infamy was Torquemada's, not the bush-league stuff they had in Italy in the late 1700s.

Germans are Christians and Christians they still are (but nice ones now)

If they committed the Holocaust only because they were Christians, then why didn't they do it 100 or 300 years sooner, when they were also Christian?

They did what they did because they adopted the politics of national socialism. Nothing more.

The muslims in Bosnia had lived there for 300 years it was the Serbs and Croatians who did 90% killing.

Factually incorrect on all counts.

128 posted on 09/16/2004 11:09:13 AM PDT by Repairman Jack
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To: Darksheare

I accept that killing civilians is wrong, I dont agree with suicide bombers and I deplore whats happening in the Suudan. It still dosnt change what happend in history nor that 10k iraqi civilians are dead and thats a lagitamit thing for any TV station to report on.

I dont pray to any god i dont believe in god.

Also for the wider audience get over the typo's I dont have the time to correct - rather talk to you lot


129 posted on 09/16/2004 11:09:25 AM PDT by MartinRidley
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To: MartinRidley


al Jazeera was ousted from Iraq by the Iraqi government, not ours.


130 posted on 09/16/2004 11:11:10 AM PDT by Repairman Jack
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To: MartinRidley

Show me proof of 10k Iraqi civilians dead, and show proof of who did it.


131 posted on 09/16/2004 11:11:10 AM PDT by Darksheare (Freedom is worth ALL of our lives if it frees even ONE person.)
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To: Darksheare

Well i could have my facts wrong, but I am not a lier I wouldn't atempt to decieve you - thats very underhand thing to say -


132 posted on 09/16/2004 11:11:13 AM PDT by MartinRidley
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To: MartinRidley
Christian civilisation was and continues to be intolerent look at the inquisition, holocaust, rawanda, bosnia.

Now you are starting to piss me off! You are wrong about the Christian religion being the prime cause of those atrocities. The real problem then, as now, is leftism. The common thread in all acts of inhumanity. So just eat crap and die, scum!

133 posted on 09/16/2004 11:11:57 AM PDT by Designer (Sysiphus Sr. to Junior; "It was uphill, all the way, both ways!")
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To: MartinRidley

What you are doing is very UNDERHANDED.
You are being disingenuous, and dishonest.


134 posted on 09/16/2004 11:12:10 AM PDT by Darksheare (Freedom is worth ALL of our lives if it frees even ONE person.)
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To: Darksheare

Oh you nasty man - try and keep the argument at least moral - remember scripture


135 posted on 09/16/2004 11:13:39 AM PDT by MartinRidley
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To: MartinRidley
You should care what people think

Why?

Seriously, why?

So that I can alter my fundamental nature and principles to appease others?

Not bloody likely.

136 posted on 09/16/2004 11:13:55 AM PDT by Repairman Jack
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To: hellinahandcart

Don't do it

Thats very funny


137 posted on 09/16/2004 11:14:45 AM PDT by MartinRidley
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To: MartinRidley

Yes, I am mean-spirited.
I was after all in field artillery.
And there's one thing I do not tolerate and that is a liar, especially one that says, does, and acts as you do.
I can be very forgiving and very tolerant to a point.
Do not mistake kindness for weakness.


138 posted on 09/16/2004 11:15:31 AM PDT by Darksheare (Freedom is worth ALL of our lives if it frees even ONE person.)
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To: MartinRidley; Zavien Doombringer; 4mycountry; Constitution Day; VRWCmember; Poohbah; dighton; ...
Hello troll.

Goodbye troll.


139 posted on 09/16/2004 11:15:37 AM PDT by mhking
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To: UK David; Zavien Doombringer; 4mycountry; Constitution Day; VRWCmember; Poohbah; dighton; ...
Ooohhh. Another one?


140 posted on 09/16/2004 11:16:18 AM PDT by mhking
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