Yeah... I have to grant that Freedom Of Speech, under the First Amendment, etc....... works for all sides.......I'm usually on the Left..... but the "little sheet-heads" do go way overboard with their reactions to "anti-Mohammed" speech....
No one (Left or Right) should put up with that sort of abridgment.... nominal9 On Sep 28, 2:02 am, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > Welcome to Islamerica > > Allen Hunt > > 09/20/2010 > > http://townhall.com/columnists/AllenHunt/2010/09/20/welcome_to_islame... > > Superman had his Bizarro World. You and I now have Islamerica. Where up > is down, left is right, hot is cold, and the First Amendment is getting > a thorough scrubbing and security check. After all, freedom of speech is > just so old. It was written so many years ago. We really do need to > rethink that. After all, people's feelings are at stake. > > In Islamerica, you have freedom of speech so long as what you say does > not offend Muslims. Take Derek Fenton, the New Jersey transit worker, > who burned a few pages of the Koran on Saturday, September 11. He chose > to do so in front of the proposed Ground Zero mosque site in New York. > Police quickly escorted him away, presumably for fear his actions would > send already rambunctious protesters into a rabid frothing frenzy. On > Monday, Fenton went to his New Jersey state job and received his pink > slip. He was fired. For weekend behavior in another state. > > Derek Fenton became a casualty of the new Islamerican rethinking of the > First Amendment. Fenton lost his job for distasteful behavior on his > weekend. According to the New Jersey officials, he violated their > employee code of ethics. First, who knew the state of New Jersey had a > code of ethics? Second, does that code of ethics provide a list of > things that state workers cannot do on their own free time during a > weekend? Could Mr. Fenton wear open-toed shoes that reveal his foot > fungus? Could he sacrifice a goat in his front yard as a religious act? > Exactly, what can a New Jersey state employee do to express himself and > how can one worship without losing his job? I imagine he can burn an > American flag (an act protected by the Supreme Court) and burn a Bible > (an act protected by Christians who have grown accustomed to tolerating > those who disagree). Just not a Koran. > > Shortly after Mr. Fenton found his pink slip, Seattle Weekly announced > that Molly Norris no longer existed. Molly is the political cartoonist > who was outraged at the censoring of South Park by Comedy Central (an > act which also gave us Faisal Shahzad and his failed attempt at blowing > up Times Square). As an expression of her disgust, Molly drew a cartoon > of several items all claiming to be Mohammed and facetiously suggested > an "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day." Others took her idea literally and > created a Facebook page to do just that. Result? Anwar al-Awlaki has > posted a statement to his followers that arson and assassination are the > legitimate forms of retaliation against Ms. Norris. > > Thus, Seattle Weekly announced that Molly has entered something akin to > the witness protection program. At the FBI's urging, her identity has > been wiped clean. She has relocated to a new town, with a new name and a > new job. There is no more Molly Norris. > > The kicker? Molly herself is footing the bill for all this. Do not > offend Muslims or you will pay a high price with your wallet, your job, > and even your life. Intimidation works pretty well. "Like us or we will > kill you" is often an effective strategy. Just ask the Mafia. > > Meanwhile, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Laurie Cardoza-Moore has been > leading protests against the proposed construction of a 50,000 square > foot mosque. She has received multiple death threats. She has turned > those threats left on her cell phone over to law enforcement. As far as > we can determine, FBI protection appears nowhere to be found. > > However, Cami Ayash, the organizing leader of the Murfreesboro mosque, > has asked for and received FBI protection at taxpayer expense. Although > a piece of construction equipment at the construction site was torched, > Ms. Ayash and her colleagues appear to have received a grand total of > zero death threats. They did report hearing some gunshots in the > distance, a sound I hear nearly every weekend where I live in the South. > Her fears were enough for federal agents to rally to her side at public > expense. Apparently, what matters is not real threats so much as > perceiving that they may exist. > > Ms. Ayash's protection and that of her fellow worshipers is a result of > Attorney General Eric Holder's aggressive initiative to marshal federal > resources to protect Muslims. Holder has stated that position on > multiple occasions. After President Obama's Cairo speech, Holder said, > "The President's pledge for a new beginning between the United States > and the Muslim community takes root here in the Justice Department where > we are committed to using criminal and civil rights laws to protect > Muslim Americans. A top priority of this Justice Department is a return > to robust civil rights enforcement..." > > Mr. Holder's "robust civil rights enforcement" appears to apply to > abortion clinic operators (of whom one has been killed in the last > decade) but not to pro-life demonstrators (of whom one has been killed > in the last decade). "Robust civil rights enforcement" also applies to > Muslims who receive any pushback against their plans and to Muslims who > are offended by the free expression of others. > > "Robust civil rights enforcement" does not appear to apply to anyone who > says or does anything that ruffles the feathers of Muslims. You can lose > your job, and Mr. Holder's people will not defend your right to free > expression. You can receive global death threats, and Mr. Holder's team > will assist you as long as you are willing to pay for it. You can > receive death threats from mosque proponents, and Mr. Holder's team > might, must might, take your call when you complain. > > However, should you be Muslim, receive no death threats, but still fear > something (real or imagined), Mr. Holder's justice will be on your > doorstep at your beck and call. At no cost to you. > > One can only draw the obvious conclusion. We are scared of Muslims. > America is intimidated by Islam. We tremble and quake at the men who > live in caves and scheme with their medieval minds. We worry that our > actions may cause them some perceived slight that results in their > choosing to riot and to kill each other. So we lay down our freedoms and > relinquish our rights in the vain Sally Field-esque hope that somehow > they will "like" us. We lay down those rights without even a battle. > > When did America become cowardly? For two centuries or more, America has > stood for human rights. Now those human rights and freedoms apply only > to a select few whose sensitivities will determine the rights that the > rest of us enjoy. We have been the moral beacon of the world. Now we are > scared, even in our own country, so much so that we are even editing and > trimming the beloved First Amendment. Say whatever you like, just as > long as it does not offend Muslims. > > Welcome to Islamerica. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Allen Hunt is the host of the nationally syndicated talk radio program, > the Allen Hunt show. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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