Posted on 07/31/2009 3:27:39 AM PDT by rellimpank
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's top prosecutor insisted Thursday that freedom of expression in Venezuela "must be limited" and proposed legislation that would slap additional restrictions on the country's news media.
The new law would punish the owners of radio stations, television channels and newspapers that have attempted to "cause panic" and "disturb social peace," Attorney General Luisa Ortega said.
It also would punish media owners who "manipulate the news with the purpose of transmitting a false perception of the facts."
"Freedom of expression must be limited," Ortega said.
Ortega urged lawmakers to consider her suggestions as they debate a bill that would punish as-yet-undefined "media crimes." The National Assembly, which is controlled by allies of President Hugo Chavez, is expected to approve the measure in coming months.
Jose Miguel Vivanco, Americas director for Human Rights Watch, warned the proposed legislation "would be a terrible regression for freedom of expression."
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Can’t have people infecting the public with unofficial opinions.
And with Sonia Sotomayor on our “Supreme Court”, we won’t be far behind with the same laws....
Read it and weep.
How long before this chicana gets nominated to the USSC?
The other top stories are the successes of land reform to take away the vast farmlands from the wealthy and divide them up to the poor..... and the new food shortages which are totally unrelated.... and why do crowds now flock to the dock when a shipload of sugar comes in?
....And with this, we get closer to CW2 everyday.
Mass protests in Europe???
They’re not all that far ahead of Obama
hussama’s soul mate.
LLS
“Can’t have people infecting the public with unofficial opinions.”
The Kenyan Imposter couldn’t have said it better.
Many Liberals would like similar measures enacted in the US to stop what they call “hate speech.” Some things they define as hate speech include opposition to illegal immigration, abortion, gay marriage, cap & trade, higher taxes & on & on.
Thank God for our written BOR.
When our elites try to pull this with the first amd, we’ll know it’s time to use the 2nd.
Venezuela just became PC like the U.S.A. anyone know some names you can’t ues in public without being charged with a hate crime.
1.Faggot
2.
King Hussien Obama looks on with envy.
Lefties at work. Coming to a neighborhood near you if we let the current U.S. leaders get away with it. First it’ll be our second amendment rights then our first.
This absolutely must NEVER happen in the USA though arguably it is happening, its happening on the internet, the MSM, our schools and its not to be allowed to gain any more footing.
The democrats voted for a leader, that “leader” is taking them down the wrong path, America is just now realizing it, they thought the “cruise control” would drive them home,instead while they are preoccupied in the back of the RV its about to crash.
A definition from Soviet times: Peace = the lack of resistance to Socialism
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