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1st Amendment Case - Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial CrossFirst Amendment Case: Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial Cross Legal Battle
2009 - "The current case involves Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America and several individuals represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the present lawsuit challenging Congress' taking of the... [ Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial ] and the presence of the cross on federal property..."
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Federal Appeals Court to Examine Constitutionality of San Diego Monument American Center for Law and Justice ACLJ - Represents Members of Congress Seeking to Protect the Mount Soledad Veteran’s Memorial (DeMossNewsPond, 03/13/2009) http://www.demossnewspond.com/aclj/news/federal_appeals_court_to_examine_constitutionality_of_san_diego_monument "The American Center for Law and Justice"... filed an brief [http://www.aclj.org/media/pdf/Mt.SoledadBrief.pdf/] at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the ongoing legal battle to protect the constitutionality of the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial display in San Diego. ...
[ACLJ amicus brief ] argues that the federal government’s acquisition and operation of the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial – including its commemorative cross – is consistent with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. In our view, the federal appeals court should reach the only proper conclusion – that the Mt. Soledad Memorial is not only an appropriate symbol honoring military veterans, but it is constitutional as well."
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Another Round in Court Over Mt. Soledad
Jay Sekulow's Trial Notebook, 03/13/2009 http://www.aclj.org/TrialNotebook/Read.aspx?ID=750 “One person’s agenda shouldn’t diminish the sacrifices made by America’s veterans and their families...The ACLU claims to be the foremost defender of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.’ Most Americans know, however, that title really belongs to the veterans whose memorial the ACLU is attacking.”
—Joe Infranco, Alliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel
"Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed a friend-of-the-court brief [http://www.telladf.org/UserDocs/SanDiegoAmicus.pdf/] ...in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in defense of a... cross located at the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial. The American Civil Liberties Union and its allies are challenging the constitutionality of the cross, which is located on federal land at the memorial. ADF attorneys represent The American Legion Department of California in the case."
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ADF: Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial cross is constitutional
Friend-of-court brief filed with 9th Circuit on behalf of The American Legion Department of California (Alliance Defense Fund, 03/25/2009) http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4883 "The national American Legion has joined with the Alliance Defense Fund and Liberty Legal Institute to defend and protect our nation’s war memorials from increasing legal attacks ..."
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Alliance Defense Fund: Veterans' Memorials
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/memorials Calif. Supreme Court declines review of decision on
Mt. Soledad National War Memorial land transfer Justices let Court of Appeal ruling stand that says transfer to feds okay; ADF filed friend-of-the-court brief for The American Legion Dept. of California (Alliance Defense Fund, 02/22/2007) http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4018 Transfer of Mt. Soledad land to feds to save war
memorial constitutional, says CA Court of Appeal ADF and its allies filed friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of The American Legion (Alliance Defense Fund, 11/30/2006) http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=3935 ADF attorneys ask 9th Circuit to dismiss
17-year lawsuit against Mt. Soledad cross Friend-of-the-court brief states that case is now “moot” since President Bush signed law transferring cross to federal land Alliance Defense Fund, 11/28/2006 http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=3932 ADF and American Legion ask Supreme Court
to stop removal of Mt. Soledad cross ADF steps up defense of veterans memorial, files friend-of-the-court brief in U.S. Supreme Court arguing on behalf of stay (Alliance Defense Fund, 07/03/2006) http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=3790 Alliance Defense Fund
Responding to the urgent need for the legal defense and advocacy of religious freedom http://www.alliancedefensefund.org "The Supreme Court announced its ruling in Pleasant Grove, Utah v. Summum which says that the presence of a donated monument does not require the acceptance of all donated monuments. The ruling, which reverses the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling, works in favor of veterans’ memorials nationwide, since many are donated and would have been threatened by the Tenth Circuit’s ruling. The Court’s majority opinion specifically references the brief filed by the veterans."
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U.S. Supreme Court Rules 9-0 to Protect Govt. Monuments
Veterans Celebrate Ruling That Will Help Preserve War Memorials (Save Our Memorials, project of Liberty Legal Institute. Press Release, 02/25/2009 - PDF) http://www.saveourmemorials.com/docs/090225_release.pdf Liberty Legal Institute: Save Our Memorials
http://www.saveourmemorials.com Liberty Legal Institute
Protecting religious freedoms and First Amendment rights for individuals, groups and churches. http://www.libertylegal.org
"... the ACLU by its continuing attacks on Mt. Soledad and other veterans memorials, continues to create a growing backlash, resulting now in an unprecedented nationwidewide defense of veterans memorials..." Source:
Launch of National Defense of Veterans Memorial Project
By Rees Lloyd, California civil rights attorney, veteran, and Director of the Defense of Veterans Memorials Project of the American Legion Department of California (American Legion Department of California San Francisco Headquarters, 05/18/2007) http://www.calegion.org/html/desk_news.html#project Defense of Veterans Memorials Project
American Legion Department of California http://www.calegion.org/html/veterans-memorials-project.html American Legion Department of California - Headquarters
Veterans Helping Veterans and Their Communities http://www.calegion.org "A...serious threat has surfaced, from self-serving groups seeking to use the threat of lawsuits and judicial activism to cover, remove, and even destroy Veterans Memorials and other public buildings that contain religious symbolism of any type
...The American Legion National Headquarters has joined forces with the Alliance Defense Fund and Liberty Legal Institute to defend and protect our nation's war memorials from increasing legal attacks from the ACLU and its allies..."
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The American Legion, ADF, LLI Launch National
Effort To Defend Veterans’ Memorials
(American Legion Vison May Web News, 05/24/2007) http://www.legion.org/vision/currentevents/2007/05/the_american_legion_adf_lli_la.html Source:
American Legion Riders - Post 489 - Call to Action
Guard America's War Memorials - A call to action for The American Legion Riders, Press Release, 06/14/2007 http://www.legionriders489.org/pressroom.htm National American Legion Riders Information Center
Members of the American Legion who are also motorcycle enthusiasts http://www.americanlegionriders.net Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) "... and The American Legion have been involved in legal efforts to defend the cross memorial at Mt. Soledad in San Diego and the Mojave Desert Cross in southern California against ACLU-led efforts to have them removed. "
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The American Legion, ADF, LLI Launch
National Effort To Defend Veterans' Memorials (OURVOICE, American Legion, 05/24/2007) http://ourvoice.legion.org/story/51/the-american-legion-adf-lli-launch-national-effort-to-defend-veterans-memorials "The Thomas More Law Center’s "...friend of the court brief [ supporting Mt. Soledad cross ] was filed on behalf of former Navy pilot and prisoner of war Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton, USN (Ret.), and the families of Marine Majors Michael D. Martino and Gerald Bloomfield, III, both of whom were killed in combat in Iraq..." TMLC Files Brief on Behalf of War Heroes Opposing
ACLU’s Efforts to Destroy Mt. Soledad Cross (Thomas More Law Center, 04/02/2009) http://www.thomasmore.org/qry/page.taf?id=19&_function=detail&sbtblct_uid1=475 Adm. Jeremiah Denton, Vietnam War Hero & US Senator,
to be Honored at Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial (Thomas More Law Center, 09/16/2008) [ Thomas More Law Center and the American Legion, Department of California, honor Vietnam War hero, retired Admiral and former U.S. Senator, Jeremiah Denton, with a plaque dedication ceremony atop Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial ] http://www.thomasmore.org/qry/page.taf?id=19&_function=detail&sbtblct_uid1=475 "Many of our fallen war heroes have been honored with individual plaques displayed at the foot of the Mt. Soledad memorial cross. And yet, in bitter irony, the very freedoms that these veterans died to protect are being perverted by the ACLU and used to deprive them and their grieving friends, families and comrades the honor and solace they deserve.”
—Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center
(ACLU Dishonors Veterans And Fallen War Heroes, TMLC News / victimsoflaw net 08/28/2006) "Those who want the Mt. Soledad cross removed erroneously base their case on the metaphor ‘separation of church and state,’ a phrase nowhere in the Constitution. ... It’s time to stop government by the ACLU and for the ACLU.”
—Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center
(U.S. Congress Acts to Save the Mt. Soledad Cross, 11/23/2004 / TMLC Internet Archive Wayback Machine) Thomas More Law Center
Dedicated to the defense and promotion of the religious freedom of Christians, time-honored family values, and the sanctity of human life. http://www.thomasmore.org The Mt. Soledad Memorial Cross "... in no way represents an 'establishment of religion.' Displaying a cross on public property does not establish Christianity as the official religion of San Diego."
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Crossed up (Posted By Greg Jones, 08/03/2006)
Foundation for Moral Law Weblog: Firm Foundation http://morallaw.org/blog/?p=8 "...The secularist jihad, led by ACLU mullahs, will stop at nothing to expunge this nation’s Judeo-Christian heritage, and to prevent the government from paying tribute to the Christians who died defending America. What next, What about all of those crosses on federal land in veterans cemeteries, here and abroad? Doesn’t this constitute government endorsement of religion as well? ... Compare the number of Christians who died fighting for America to the number of ACLU lawyers who were killed in their country’s service. No comparison..."
—Don Feder, President of Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation
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Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation Applauds
San Diego Vote To Save Mt. Soledad Cross (Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation, Press Release, 07/27/2005) http://www.jews4fairness.org/pr072705.php Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation Purpose: To secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike and to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against Christians http://www.jews4fairness.org Visit:
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"Mt. Soledad Memorial 'now serves to honor American veterans of all wars, not just veterans of World War I, World War II, and Korea.'"
C-Span Congressional Chronicle Video: Jeff Sessions On Mt. Soledad Memorial
Jeff Sessions United States Senator Alabama [R]
[ Sessions on the Mt. Soledad Veterans' Memorial, 07/27/2006 Complete Text - Sessions Official Site: TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/d4b486 ] http://www.c-spanarchives.org/congress/?q=node/77531&id=7491665 Mt Soledad War Memorial - American Legion Press Conference
YouTube: tmorriss 2006 Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A5w4ULf1IA Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3GfoHymr5U Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvZisx1eETg Mt. Soledad National Memorial Salute to Veterans
YouTube: joshuagross http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPgJmU5t4aE What About Arlington - performed by Jami Grooms
YouTube: JamiSandyGrooms [ American Legion, Liberty Legal Institute, Alliance Defense Fund are using this video in national campaign to protect religious symbols on the tombstones and monuments in Arlington National Cemetery that honor the fallen hero's of this great country ] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zr0TMnB-ps Col David Hunt Erupts in Anger over Flag Ritual Flap! YouTube: johnnydollar01, 2007 [ Colonel David Hunt outraged over administration ban of flag folding recitations at military funerals and Lt. Col. Oliver North explains flag ban ]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbzXuQ0UZio Articles:
“I'm for leaving it [ the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial cross ] alone...Let it be.” —Allen Miliefsky, San Diego, CA resident, retired Air Force lieutenant colonel
and commander of Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America, Post 185 Local Jewish Veterans Want Mount Soledad Cross Left Alone
By David Ogul (SignOnSanDiego, Union-Tribune, 01/19/2009) [ San Diego, Calif. - Most local members of Jewish War Veterans aren't offended by the Mt. Soledad cross ]
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jan/19/1m19cross212940-local-jewish-veterans-want-mount-s/ "...lawyers for Jewish War Veterans [ Jewish War Veterans of the USA ] ...contend [ the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial Cross ] violates the constitutional separation between government and religion..."
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Soledad cross foes want order reversed
By Greg Moran (Contact) (SignOnSanDiego, Union-Tribune, 01/08/2009) http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jan/08/1m8cross23938-soledad-cross-foes-want-order-revers At Cross Purposes - Church and state
collide with a cross on government land. The Mount Soledad cross has been the subject of legal battles for almost two decades. By Marcia Manna(San Diego Magazine, July 2008) http://www.sandiegomagazine.com/media/San-Diego-Magazine/July-2008/At-Cross-Purposes/index.php Bush Signs Bill to Protect Mount Soledad cross
(Baptist Press, 08/15/2006) [ President Bush signed into law Aug. 14 legislation to protect San Diego’s Mount Soledad cross as memorial to military veterans ] http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=23793 House Passes Bill Attempting to Intervene in Cross Dispute
By Robert Marus (Associated Baptist Press, 07/20/2006) [ Case Paulson v. City of San Diego bill transferring the cross to federal ownership was H.R. 5683 ] http://www.abpnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1378 ACLU v. The Cross
By Michael Gaynor (RenewAmerica, 07/21/2006) [ Bill (H.R. 5863) to transfer ownership of veterans Mt. Soledad memorial to federal government ] http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/gaynor/060721 House Intervenes to Save Mount Soledad Cross
By Gudrun Schultz (LifeSiteNews, 07/20/2006) http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jul/06072002.html Supreme Court Intervenes to Save the Mt. Soledad Cross
(LifeSiteNews, 07/04/2006) http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jul/06070401.html Court: San Diego Veteran Memorial
Cross Must Come Down by August 1 (LifeSiteNews, 06/23/2006) http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jun/06062302.html Judge Orders San Diego to Remove
Disputed Mountain Cross Erected in 1954 ACLU triumphs over wishes of 105,000 citizens who signed ballot initiative By Gudrun Schultz (LifeSiteNews, 05/04/2006) http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/may/06050406.html Veterans Go To Battle For Memorials
By Rees Lloyd, former ACLU attorney (WorldNetDaily, 05/ 22/2007) http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=41710 War hero, ex-senator asks Bush to save cross
San Diego landmark to be removed by judge's order next month James L. Lambert (WorldNetDaily, 07/01/2006) [ Former POW and U.S. senator Jeremiah Denton requested President Bush authorize federal government to take over site of historic San Diego cross ] http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50859 Slain Marine's parents appeal to Bush to save cross
Officer killed in Iraq memorialized under symbol threatened by court order By James L. Lambert (WorldNetDaily, 06/09/2006) [ Parents of Capt. Michael Martino, who was killed in action in Iraq, want federal park service to take over Mt. Soledad war memorial site from city of San Diego ] http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50567 Research:
History: San Diego City Charter and Mt. Soledad National War Memorial
[ San Diegans for Mt. Soledad National War Memorial led citywide Proposition A campaign to protect Mount Soledad
by transferring the site of the memorial to the federal government
as a national monument protected - Chairman Phil Thalheimer,
Co-chairs Myke Shelby / Joshua Gross --- website inactive since '06 ]
http://soledadnational.sitebuilder.completecampaigns.com/sbcc/personalinfo.php?page=biography GovTrack: H.R. 5683 - Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial (109th Congress/2005-06)
To preserve the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego, California, by providing for the immediate acquisition of the memorial by the United States. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-5683 111th Congress - 2009-2010 H.R. 1300: Veterans' Memorials, Boy Scouts,
Public Seals, and Other Public Expressions of Religion Protection Act of 2009 [ Bill in U.S. Congress originating in the House of Representatives - To amend the Revised Statutes of the United States to prevent the use ofthe legal system in a manner that extorts money from State and local governments, and the Federal Government, and inhibits such governments' constitutional actions under the first, tenth, and fourteenth amendments Sponsors Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN) - Introduced Mar 4, 2009 - Last Action: Mar 4, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary ] http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1300 Related Cases: The Army says that fighting a lawsuit against
the religious icon is too costly and impractical By Gregg K. Kakesako (Star-Bulletin - Hawaii, 1997) [ Hawaii - Schofield Barrack Kolekole Pass cross / Camp H. M. Smith cross ] http://archives.starbulletin.com/1997/10/20/news/story2.html Flag-folding Recitation Ban:
"Reciting what the 13 folds to the United States Flag stand for in Military Funerals, can no longer be read by anyone who is an employee of America."
"The First Amendment to the United States Constitution apparently says that you can say anything you want to say in America, but if your free speech says anything about the Christian God, it is illegal. Where is that written in our Constitution?"
—Pastor Don Swarthout, President and founder of Christians Reviving America's ValuEs (CRAVE) http://www.christians4america.com Source:
U. S. Flag Ceremony Banned
(Christian Newswire, CRAVE, 10/31/2007) http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/188804645.html "World War II Navy sailor Bobby Castillo, 85, member of Memorial Honor Detail 12, called the federal decision 'a slap in the face to every veteran. ...When we got back from the war, we didn't ask for a whole lot...We just want to give our veterans the respect they deserve. No one has ever complained to us about it. I just don't understand.'"
Source: After complaint in Riverside, Flag-Folding Recitation
Banned at Veterans cemeteries Nationwid By Joe Vargo (Press-Enterprise, 10/25/2007) http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_flag25.3ee2dc9.html "Following one complaint...The U.S. government has bowed to pressure from one radical anti-Christian secularist. Allowed to stand, the action by the Veterans Administration, in essence, means that anti-Christian bigotry is now the accepted and approved law of the land.”
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Federal government bans flag-folding recitations following one complaint
(WordPress, Family Action Organization, 10/27/2007 http://familyactionorganization.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/federal-government-bans-flag-folding-recitations-following-one-complaint/ Christians encouraged to take action on funeral flag recitation ban From Allie Martin and One News Now. (Word PressFamily Action Organization, 10/29/2007) http://familyactionorganization.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/christians-encouraged-to-take-action-on-funeral-flag-recitation-ban/ Mail Archive - osint: Federal Government Bans Flag-folding Recitations
(American Family Association - AFA Action Alerts, 10/2007)
http://www.mail-archive.com/osint@yahoogroups.com/msg48445.html "The flag folding ceremony represents the same religious principles on which our great country was originally founded."
*The second fold is a symbol of our belief in the eternal life.
*The fourth fold represents our weaker nature; for as American citizens trusting in God, it is to Him we turn in times of peace, as well as in times of war, for His divine guidance.
*The eleventh fold, in the eyes of Hebrew citizens, represents the lower portion of the seal of King David and King Solomon and glorifies, in their eyes, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
*The twelfth fold, in the eyes of a Christian citizen, represents an emblem of eternity and glorifies, in their eyes, God the Father, the Son and Holy Ghost.
When the flag is completely folded, the stars are uppermost, reminding us of our national motto, 'In God We Trust.'
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American Legion Online: Flag Folding - Procedures and Symbols
http://www.legion.org/national/americanflag/folding Related Truth Point Posts:
1st Amendment Case - Salazar v. Buono - Mojave Desert Cross
http://truthpoint.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3E1C89D2FC2BD759!3502.entry 1st Amendment: 10 Commandments Monument Case - Pleasant Grove City v. Summum
http://truthpoint.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3E1C89D2FC2BD759!3410.entry 1st Amendment: Separation of Church and State
http://truthpoint.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3E1C89D2FC2BD759!3412.entry .
Australia Censors WikileaksAustralia Censors Wikileaks
For Exposing Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) Blacklist
"Wikileaks has argued such blacklists are 'dangerous to 'above ground' activities such as political discourse...'"
Source: Wikileaks spills ACMA blacklist
(Liam Tung, ZDNet.au, 03/19/2009) http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Wikileaks-spills-ACMA-blacklist/0,130061744,339295538,00.htm March 2009 "This week saw Australia joining China and the United Arab Emirates as the only countries censoring WikiLeaks."
Source: WikiLeaks Exposes Australian Web Blacklist
By David Kravets (Wire, 03/19/2009) http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/wikileaks-expos.html Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange "...said secret censorship systems were 'invariably corrupted', pointing to the Thailand censorship list ... In January the Thai system was used to censor Australia reportage about the imprisoned Australian writer Harry Nicolaides...."
[ Wikipedia: Harry Nicolaides ... is an Australian writer...imprisoned in Thailand under Thai lèse majesté law -- section 112, reads: 'Whoever defames, insults or threatens the King, the Queen, the Heir-apparent or the Regent, shall be punished with imprisonment of three to fifteen years.' ...a passage in 2005 novel --- Verisimilitude. Is the truth, the truth? --- of his deemed to defame the Thai monarchy. ]
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Leaked Australian blacklist reveals banned sites
By Asher Moses The Age Australia (03/19/2009) http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/03/19/1237054961100.html "It is time journalists and publishers starting actually engaging in 'fearless journalism' rather than simply placing the words on their mastheads...It is time activists serious about their mission used every technical and legal ploy they can to further it."
—Julian Assange Co-Founder Wikileaks
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/mgprofiles/index.php?action=profile&id=458 Source:
Immune to Critics, Secret-Spilling Wikileaks Plans to
Save Journalism ... and the World By Ryan Singel (Wire, 07/03/2008) http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2008/07/wikileaks "People are now realising that the [ Australian Communications and Media Authority - ACMA blacklist ] could affect sites they themselves visit, that controversial material and politically sensitive material will make the list, and that mistakes are bound to be made."
Source: Answering a few questions about the leaked blacklist
By Colin Jacobs (Electronic Frontiers Australia, 03/ 20/ 2009 - updated) http://www.efa.org.au/2009/03/20/answering-a-few-questions-about-the-leaked-blacklist No Clean Feed - Stop Internet Censorship in Australia
Electronic Frontiers Australia http://nocleanfeed.com Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA)
organisation representing Internet users concerned with on-line freedoms and rights http://www.efa.org.au "The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is coming under fire from free-speech advocates after it threatened the host of a popular Australian online discussion forum with a $11,000-a-day fine for publishing a link to an American pro-life website that ACMA had previously blacklisted."
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‘Embarrassed’ ACMA forced to change ways
By Kathryn Edwards (Australian PC World, March 17, 2009) [ Australian Communications and Media Authority complaint anti-abortion Web site ] http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/280492/embarrassed_acma_forced_change_ways North Coast Voices: What if you gave an Internet censorship party and nobody came?, 03/19/2009
ACMA forces Whirlpool to remove link to banned anti-abortion web page
(Somebody Think Of The Children, 03/13/2009) [ also read: ACMA declares anti-abortion site ‘prohibited content’
01/21/2009 http://www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/acma-anti-abortion-prohibited ]
http://www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/acma-demand-whirlpool-remove-link-to-banned-anti-abortion-web-page Source:
Pro-Life Website Banned on Australian
Government's Internet Blacklist By Kathleen Gilbert (LifeSiteNews, March 19, 2009) http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/mar/09031905.html "Reporters Without Borders.... placed Australia on its 'watch list' of countries imposing anti-democratic internet restrictions that could open the way for abuses of power and control of information."
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Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day
By Asher Moses Sydney Morning Herald, March 17, 2009 [ Australian communications regulator will fine people who hyperlink to sites its blacklist ] http://www.smh.com.au/news/home/technology/banned-hyperlinks-could-cost-you-11000-a-day/2009/03/17/1237054787635.html "... not all countries share the notions of free speech and freedom of the press that many of us hold so dear. Some countries explicitly disavow such notions. ... we ought to look for greater transparency in governments’ Internet interventions. We ought to demand that governments admit what they do, and accept public responsibility for the consequences."
—Ben Edelman, assistant professor at Harvard Business School
in Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit http://www.benedelman.org/bio/ Source:
On a Filtered Internet, Things Are Not As They Seem
Reporters Without Borders (June 2004) http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10761 First Online Free Expression Day launched on Reporters Without Borders website - New list of Internet Enemies - Download updated version of Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents (Reporters Without Borders/ Reporters sans frontières) http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=26086 "A study titled Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies has just been published by Harvard's Berkman Centre for Internet and Society <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu>, reports NetChoice. And guess what? Net filtering might not be a silver bullet. "
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Berkman Center Issues Comprehensive Internet Safety Report
(NetChoice, Jan. 14, 2009)
http://blog.netchoice.org/2009/01/berkman-center-issues-comprehensive-internet-safety-report.html Source:
Cleaning Up Australia
By Newmatilda com - blogwatch, Jan 30, 2009 What are the world's geeks saying about Stephen Conroy's internet nanny scheme? Blogwatch braves the cultural cringe to find out http://newmatilda.com/2009/01/30/cleaning-australia newmatilda com: Tag 'internet censorship'
http://newmatilda.com/tag/internet-censorship "Australian blogosphere has largely come together to protest a government internet filtering scheme that will require Internet Service Providers to offer a 'Clean-Feed' service to all homes, schools and public access points to the internet."
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Australia rallies to “Stop the Clean Feed”
By John Liebhardt, freelance journalist (Global Voices, 12/11/2008) [ Blog hosted at Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University ] http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/12/11/australia-rallies-to-stop-the-clean-feed For news updates on ACMA Internet Censorship
Mike Meloni's blog: Somebody Think Of The Children - Tag ‘Internet Censorship’ http://www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/category/discussion-of-internet-censorship-mainly-in-australia/ Somebody Think Of The Children
Mike Meloni's blog with a focus on Internet censorship in Australia http://www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com NetAlarmed (Mike Meloni's fictional website)
It is a work of satire in response to Australian Government's absurd Internet censorship policy and the former NetAlert policy http://www.netalarmed.com "Pretty well everything I feared about censorship by the internet filter and heavy handed government action is coming true. ... if the filter becomes mandatory ... legal sites will effectively become censored for no apparent reason (other than political whim or special privileges)."
—John S. Wilkins, PhD, University of Melbourne Australia
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Internet censorship in Australia ramps up
by John S. Wilkins (ScienceBlogs, Evolving Thoughts, 03/19/ 2009) http://scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts/2009/03/internet_censorship_in_austral.php Blogspot - John S. Wilkins: Drought Resistant Philospher - Tag 'Censorship' http://droughtresistant.blogspot.com/search/label/Censorship Sydney Indymedia - Australia Tag 'ACMA'
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/topic/acma Weblogs: Sally Hawkins PhD student with Southern Cross University, NSW Australia
Open Content Australia http://www.ocaustralia.blogspot.com OCA Research Review http://www.ocarr.blogspot.com James McDougall, director, National Childrens and Youth Law Centre <http://www.ncylc.org.au> "... believes that Conroy and the government are pushing mandatory ISP filtering as a universal panacea to the vast and complex issue of the protection of children using the web. ...Holly Doel-Mackaway, child rights advisor for Save the Children Australia <http://www.savethechildren.org.au> says ' ... mandatory filtering ...contravenes one of the cornerstones of the UN Convention on the Rights ... the right for children to be informed.'"
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Wrong way Conroy persists in censorship
(Jack the Insider Blog, Australian, Dec. 01, 2008) http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/jacktheinsider/index.php/theaustralian/comments/wrong_way_conroy_persists_in_censorship/ " ...Australia’s boom is fueled by mineral exports to China, it would seem that Australian Government policies are now by China in return."
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"The internet remains where the battle for information lies and the fact that the Government is devoting so much effort at reining it in, in itself indicates how much of a threat they perceive it to be ..."
—Nicholas Bequelin, senior researcher, Asia division of Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/en/node/75139 China says internet censorship needed to keep children from harmful sites By Ben Blanchard in Beijing (news com au, 01/ 26/2009) http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,24963218-5014239,00.html Source:
Australia Joins China In Censoring The Internet
By Duncan Riley (TechCrunch, Dec. 30, 2007) http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/30/australia-joins-china-in-censoring-the-internet Amnesty: Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft doing bad things in China
By Nate Anderson (Ars Technica, 07/20/2006) [ Amnesty International 2006 report says that Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft are 'complicit in the Chinese government's denial of freedom of information. ] http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/07/7311.ars AI: Undermining freedom of expression in China.
The role of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google (Amnesty International, 07/19/2006) http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/POL30/026/2006 Amnesty International UK: July 2006 Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft: http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17041 Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google: http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17054 Wikileaks News:
"Global interest in censorship issues floods
Twitter: Wikileaks - 6:24 AM, March 21, 2008 http://twitter.com/wikileaks Society of Professional Journalists pleased over judge’s ruling in WikiLeaks case (Society of Professional Journalists, Press Release, 03/03/2008) https://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=767 Society of Professional Journalists
Dedicated to the perpetuation of a free press as the cornerstone of our nation and our liberty. https://www.spj.org Coalition of Media Organizations Challenges Prior Restraints in Wikileaks Case By David Ardia (02/27/2008) Blog: Citizen Media Law Project) http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2008/coalition-media-organizations-challenges-prior-restraints-wikileaks-case Citizen Media Law Project: Julius Baer Bank and Trust v. Wikileaks
By David Ardia 2008 (Citizen Media Law Project) http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/julius-baer-bank-and-trust-v-wikileaks Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP)
Community of lawyers, academics, journalists, and others who are interested in facilitating citizen participation in online media and in protecting the legal rights of those engaged in speech on the Internet. http://www.citmedialaw.org To Stop a Leak By Brian Braiker
(Newsweek Web Exclusive, 02/21/2008) [ Wikileaks / Julius Baer Bank Case - U.S. District Court, San Francisco, CA ] http://www.newsweek.com/id/114415/page/1 Watch:
ACMA Internet Censorship
Australian Communications and Media Authority
YouTube: viatjaira, March 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quIOz2Ya5lo No internet Censorship in Australia
YouTube: dragonfilmproduction, Jan. 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C9JCMO7Na8 Government Internet Filter
YouTube: jimboot, Oct. 2008 [ Australian Govt is trying to bring in Internet censorship through the implementation of a 'Clean Feed' filter ] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp3i-xQuMdc Internet Censorship in Australia
YouTube: PaulusAlexus, Jan. 2008 [ Points out dangers of Rudd Government's plan to censor Internet at ISP level ] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLMI3QUfuTc Research:
“The Internet is a medium founded on free speech and anonymity. What they are doing threatens that. Information is supposed to be free. Knowledge is power. ...It is well known that Australia is being used a test ground for this idea to spread it to the rest of the world. ISP bans such as this one have already been implemented in various nations such as China, Thailand, and some Scandinavian countries such as Sweden. ...Everyone has the right to information."
Digital Liberty Coalition Grassroots incorporated entity which exists to protect civil liberties where they are threatened by the poor administration and application of digital rights and technology. http://www.dlc.asn.au "... Human Rights Council of Australia is partnering with the campaigning organization GetUP against the Rudd Government’s proposal to filter the Internet. HRCA Campaign to save the Internet http://hrca.org.au/?page_id=118 " "The Federal Government is planning to force all Australian servers to filter internet traffic and block any material the Government deems ‘inappropriate’. Under the plan, the Government can add any ‘unwanted’ site to a secret blacklist."
GetUp: Save The Net - Australia
Independent, grass-roots community advocacy organisation giving everyday Australians opportunities to get involved and hold politicians accountable on important issues http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442 "...censorship regime is unnecessary, because children can be protected by installing a child-protection internet filter on their PC. ...The government has extended this censorship of the internet to all communications devices including mobile phones. ...this censorship is an unnecessary restriction on freedom of speech..."
NSWCCL: stand up for our rights: Internet Censorship
NSW Council for Civil Liberties - Australia
http://www.nswccl.org.au/issues/freespeech/internet.php "Save The Free Internet! ... Rudd Labor government mandatory Internet filtering system ...The 'cleanfeed' system will be mandatory on all ISPs and there will be no opt out. The government will have sole discretion to decide for us what is 'inappropriate' web content."
WeAreChange Go Petition: Protect the Free Internet
- Say No to Mandatory Censorship Human Rights - Australia, 2008 http://www.gopetition.com.au/online/23396.html WeAreChange Australia
Grass roots peacefulactivist organisation committed to upholding and defending the universal values of truth, democracy, justice and liberty which we believe to be under assault by the current governing authorities in Australia and elsewhere in the world. http://www.wearechange.org.au "Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information. ... Internet repression is not just about governments. IT companies have helped build the systems that enable surveillance and censorship to take place. ...Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right. It is one of the most precious of all rights. We should fight to protect it. "
Amnesty International Campaign: Be irrepressible
The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights http://irrepressible.info Le Tombeau de la Liberté / The Tomb of Freedom
Les textes des lois et décrets qui répriment l’usage d’internet Texts of the laws and decrees which repress the use of Internet (Globenet - l'Internet associatif et solidaire, France) [ Bable Fish web page translation - French to English <http://www.globenet.org/Le-Tombeau-de-la-Liberte.html> ] TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/dxkekq / TinyURL Preview: http://preview.tinyurl.com/dxkekq UNSW: Internet Filtering and Censorship Research Project References
University of New South Wales, Cyberspace Law and Policy Centrem Australia http://www.cyberlawcentre.org/censorship/references.htm UNSW Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre
Provides a focus for research, public interest advocacy and education on issues of Law and policy concerning digital transactions in cyberspace. University of New South Walesm Australia http://www.cyberlawcentre.org Trinity College - Australia: Internet Censorship
http://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/web/censorship.htm Vicnet - Australia: Legal Information Internet Censorship
http://www.vicnet.net.au/legal/censorship.htm Wikipedia: Internet Censorship in Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australia Wikipedia: Cleanfeed (content blocking system) " ... name of a privately administered ISP level content filtering system operating in the United Kingdom. It is also the name of a proposed mandatory Australian ISP level content filtering system which is undergoing testing.
Wikipedia: Internet Watch Foundation --- in United Kingdom IWF produces a blacklist of Internet sites and content that it deems to be in contravention/potentially in contravention to UK laws. Many UK based ISPs use this list to filter the content available to their subscribers.
Wikipedia: Administrators' noticeboard/2008 IWF action --- Internet Watch Foundation, UK... "IWF issue - Online filtering creates a situation based on presumption of guilt. In the past, removal of illegal online content was handled by takedown notices such as the DMCA [ Digital Millennium Copyright Act - United States copyright law ]. Takedown notices gave the host of the content under challenge a choice of whether to comply with or to ignore the notice..." [ link source: Wikipedia Blocks UK ISP Censorship Filters, The H - Heise Online, 12/08/2008 <http://www.h-online.com/open/Wikipedia-blocks-UK-ISP-censorship-filters--/news/112179> ]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Major_UK_ISPs_reduced_to_using_2_IP_addresses Wikipedia: Censorship in Canada --- " 2006, Canadian Internet service providers ... announced 'Project Cleanfeed Canada' ...list of blocked sites is compiled from reports by Internet users and investigated by independent organization 'cybertip.ca'. "
Related Issue:
The Australian Press Council "... has an on-going 'come clean' campaign to encourage governments and other holders of information to be more open with the public by providing the media with the information they need to report on matters of public interest and concern. The Council has noted the increasing decline in the openness of information providers... major publishers and broadcasters, alarmed at the culture of secrecy in contemporary Australia, initiated the Right to Know campaign in 2007."
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Right to Know (Report on Free Speech Issues 2007-2008)
Australian Press Council http://www.presscouncil.org.au/pcsite/fop/fop_ar/ar08.html#right Australia Right to Know
News.com.au - Special feature 2007-08: Right To Know Australia - How you are kept from knowing the truth and what you can do about it http://www.news.com.au/feature/0,,5013456,00.html Australia's Right To Know
Presented by Antony Funnell, Media Report - Australia, 05/31 /2007 (Australian Broadcasting Corporation - National Radio) [ Media Report speaks with chief organisers of Australia's Right To Know ] campaign - News Limited's Lucinda Duckett. - Read Transcript | http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2007/1937618.htm U.S.A. Cybersecurity Act of 2009 / S.778
OpenCongress: 111ST Session of Congress: S.778 - Cybersecurity Act of 2009
-- bill to establish, within the Executive Office of the President, the Office of National Cybersecurity Advisor http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s778/show GovTrack - Senator Rockefeller - S.778: 111th Congress 2009-10
***Cybersecurity Act of 2009 *** A bill to establish, within the Executive Office of the President, the Office of National Cybersecurity Advisor. --- Introduced: Apr 1, 2009 Sponsor Sen. John Rockefeller [D-WV] Cosponsors: Sen. Olympia Snowe [R-ME] - Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL] http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-778 CDT: Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Cybersecurity Bill Proposes Unprecedented Government Power Over the Internet (Center for Democracy and Technology, 04/01/2009) http://www.cdt.org/security New Bill Would Give Obama An Internet Kill Switch
Geek News, 04/02/2009 [ Rockefeller/Snowe bill s.778 ] http://www.geek-news.net/2009/04/new-bill-would-give-obama-internet-kill.html Bill Would Grant President Unprecedented Cyber-security Powers
By Roy Mark (eWeek, 04/02/2009) [ Cybersecurity Act of 2009 ] http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Bill-Grants-President-Unprecedented-Cyber-Security-Powers-504520 Feds Muscle in on Cybersecurity Game With Standards and Money
BNA E-Commerce and Tech Law Blog Bureau of National Affairs, 04/02/2009 [ Cybersecurity Act of 2009 - S. 778 ]
http://pblog.bna.com/techlaw/2009/04/feds-muscle-in-on-cybersecurity-with-cybersecurity-act.html .
Jon Stewart: Mess O' Potamia - Iraq War is OverDaily Show with Jon Stewart: Mess O' Potamia - The Iraq War is Over
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Clip: s.14 : ep.30 - March 3, 2009 Mess O'Potamia - The Iraq War Is Over was removed [ is no longer available ] on Hulu and Fancast Comedy Central: Daily Show With Jon Stewart Clip - March 3, 2009: Mess O'Potamia he Iraq War Is Over http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=220241&title=mess-opotamia-the-iraq-war-is Barack Obama announces [ President Obama Remarks Ending Iraq War,
Camp Lejeune, NC, 02/27/2009 ] that everyone is coming
home except for several dozen thousands of soldiers Daily Show with Jon Stewart, 03/03/2009, excerpt (s.14 : ep.30) Also Watch:
Despite Celebrated Speech, Has Obama Really
Ordered an End to US Occupation of Iraq? (DemocracyNow, March 04, 2009) http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/4/despite_celebrated_speech_has_obama_really ForaTv 09/29/2008: Barack Obama - Ending the War in Iraq
[ Director's Forum with Senator Barack Obama Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars This program recorded on July 15, 2008 ] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0NLyx83v3Q Read: "There is a vast and unbridgeable chasm between the antiwar position taken by a young state senator [ Brack Obama ] in October 2002 and that of the president at the end of February 2009. ...He can parse words all he wants but if he extends the occupation of Iraq indefinitely and escalates the war in Afghanistan, it is a betrayal of the promise his campaign promoted."
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'Obama’s Betrayal on the Iraq War'
By Jack Random (Pacific Free Press, March 08, 2009) http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/3822-obamas-betrayal-on-the-iraq-war.html Obama's Iraq Exit Editorial
(The Nation, March 2009 edition) http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090323/editors All Troops Out By 2011? Not So Fast;
Why Obama's Iraq Speech Deserves a Second Look By Jeremy Scahill (AlterNet, Feb. 28, 2009) [ Obama's speech promising a full withdrawal from Iraq adopted the long-discredited narrative of the Bush administration ] TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/dyte5u / TinyURL Preview:http://preview.tinyurl.com/dyte5u "I support President Obama for taking a step in the right direction in Iraq, but I do not think that his plan goes far enough. You cannot leave combat troops in a foreign country to conduct combat operations and call it the end of the war. You can't be in and out at the same time. ...America must determine at some point to end the occupation, close the bases and bring the troops home."
—Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
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Kucinich on Iraq Troop Withdrawal:
You Can’t be In and Out at the Same Time (CommonDreams, Feb. 27, 2009) http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/02/27-20 Camp Lejeune, NC, February 27, 2009: President Barack Obama's "... decision to leave a sizable force was welcomed by some congressional Republicans, including former presidential candidate Sen. John McCain..."
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Obama sets date to end Iraq combat mission
McCain happy with large numbers in post-combat Iraq; Democrats not so (MSNBC - news services, Feb. 27, 2009) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29371588 Clips & Comment - Full Text: President Barack Obama Speech Camp Lejeune - Ending the War in Iraq February 27, 2009 http://www.clipsandcomment.com/2009/02/27/full-text-president-barack-obama-speech-camp-lejeune-ending-the-war-in-iraq Articles & Updates:
Does the Afghanistan War Represent Graveyard Thinking?
By John W. Whitehead (Rutherford Institute, 04/15/2009) http://www.rutherford.org/articles_db/commentary.asp?record_id=587 .
1st Amendment - Constitutionality of 'New' Fairness Doctrine Questioned1st Amendment - Constitutionality of 'New' Fairness Doctrine Questioned
"Free speech advocates have been raising alarms over the possibility of a new so-called 'Fairness Doctrine' that would impose government regulations on speech on radio talk shows..."
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Free speech litmus test proposed
'Durbin Doctrine' includes 'frightening new government censorship powers' By Bob Unruh (WorldNetDaily, March 04, 2009) http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=90733 "...the Durbin’s amendment [ Sen. Durbin, D-Ill - Amdt. 591 ] was left vague, it could give the FCC a much wider reaching authority to enforce it however they wish and thus leave any potential outcome up to that bureaucracy."
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Inhofe: Senate Democrat Amendment Threatens Christian Radio
Oklahoma senator explains Durbin's amendment is a veiled attempt to attack talk radio, specifically religious radio. By Jeff Poor (Business & Media Institute, March 4, 2009) http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2009/20090304134901.aspx "... Democrats are keen to crack down on conservative talk radio... free speech they don't like, that is -- is now impossible to deny."
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The unfairness of a Fairness Doctrine
Proposals by some Democrats are really just aimed at cracking down on conservative talk radio. By Brian C. Anderson (Los Angeles Times, March 3, 2009) http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-anderson3-2009mar03,0,3448325.story "... an amendment by Sen. Dick Durban (D-Ill.) that seeks to achieve the same goals of the Fairness Doctrine through backdoor FCC regulations..."
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Senate Rejects Fairness Doctrine,
But Dems ‘Open Back Door to Censorship’ By Susan Jones (Cybercast News Service. Feb. 27, 2009) http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=44227 U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) 's amendment " ... forces FCC to impose 'diversity' in communications media ownership, a clear attempt to dismantle successful syndicated radio programs. The fight goes on to protect free speech on the airwaves."
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Ding dong. The Fairness Doctrine is Dead…Sort of.
(Christian Broadcasting Network, Feb. 26, 2009) http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/549194.aspx "Leading conservative talk-show hosts and their allies in Congress have expressed concerns that the [ Fairness ] Doctrine may be revived in 'camouflaged form' to silence conservative talk radio, including Christian programs."
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US Fairness Doctrine “Threatens” Christian Radio
By Joseph DeCaro (Worthy News Feb. 22, 2009) http://www.worthynews.com/4850-fairness-doctrine-may-threaten-christian-radio "The Fairness Doctrine, first introduced in 1949, required radio stations to broadcast opposing views on any matter of public importance they discussed. However, in 1987, President Reagan directed that it be abandoned. Since then, Democrats have made several unsuccessful attempts to reinstate the Doctrine."
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Conservative Radio Giant Michael Savage Joins with
TMLC to Challenge Fairness Doctrine (Thomas More Law Center, Feb. 18, 2009) http://www.thomasmore.org/qry/page.taf?id=19&_function=detail&sbtblct_uid1=596 "...the American Spectator reported on senior FCC staff working for Commissioner Michael Copps holding meetings with advisers to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman to discuss ways the committee can create openings for the FCC to put in place a form of the 'Fairness Doctrine' without actually calling it such."
Read: In All Fairness By The Prowler
By The Prowler (American Spectator, 02/16/2009) http://spectator.org/archives/2009/02/16/in-all-fairness Source:
Democrats Plot “Fairness Doctrine” for Internet Talk Radio
By Kurt Nimmo (Infowars, Feb. 17, 2009) http://www.infowars.com/democrats-plot-fairness-doctrine-for-internet-talk-radio 2009 National Religious Broadcasters Convention " ... was the first meeting in years in which the re-implementation of the Fairness Doctrine -- or a similar regulation under a different name -- seemed a real possibility."
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Christian broadcasters fear Fairness Doctrine return
By Michael Foust (Baptist Press, Feb. 11, 2009) http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=29849 “The day has come when we need to say, ‘We will preach the gospel of Jesus Christ whether some government makes it illegal to do so or not,’”
—Dr. Frank Wright, president and CEO of the National Religious Broadcasters
(http://content.nrb.org/press/wrightbio.pdf/) Source:
Christian Broadcasters Face 'Dark Clouds'; Affirm Commitment to Preach
By Eric Young (Christian Post (02/10/2009)
TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/bfwofj / TinyURL Preview: http://preview.tinyurl.com/bfwofj American Center for Law and Justice:
"... we must remain vigilant to ensure that the FCC does not use its authority to encourage diversity of ownership as a back-door means of censoring speech over the airwaves."
ACLJ Legislative Alert: Senate Victory for Broadcaster Freedom
(American Center for Law and Justice, 02/26/2009) http://www.aclj.org/LegislativeAlert/Read.aspx?GUID=12ddf59a-d2ef-48a4-9528-1f3dd03a98eb "... the Senate approved an amendment by Senator Jim DeMint which prohibits the FCC from reinstating the Fairness Doctrine and requiring broadcasters - including Christian broadcasters - always air both sides of a controversial issue. While this is an important victory, it is Round One. "
Broadcaster Freedom Victory - Round One
Jay Sekulow's Trial Notebook, 02/27/2009 (American Center for Law and Justice) http://www.aclj.org/TrialNotebook/Read.aspx?id=742 The Fight to Stop the Fairness Doctrine
Jay Sekulow's Trial Notebook, 10/18/2007 (American Center for Law and Justice) http://www.aclj.org/TrialNotebook/Read.aspx?id=540 ACLJ: No Silencing of Christian and Conservative Broadcasters!
(American Center for Law and Justice) https://www.aclj.org/Petition/Default.aspx?sc=3293&ac=1 ACLJ - Fairness Doctrine: An Archaic Policy That Violates the First Amendment
In The News/ Related Documents In Churches and Political Speech (American Center for Law and Justice) http://www.aclj.org/news/Read.aspx?ID=2709 American Center for Law and Justice Dedicated to the ideal that religious freedom and freedom of speech are inalienable, God-given rights http://www.aclj.org Media Research Center:
"...the worst part of the Durbin Amendment is the possibility that Obama's FCC may now be empowered to prematurely pull the broadcast licenses of radio stations they deem as failing to meet these new 'Fairness' Doctrine-esque guidelines."
Essay: The Durbin Amendment – The New ‘Fairness’ Doctrine with a Kicker
By Seton Motley, Director of Communications for Media Research Center (NewsBusters, Feb. 27, 2009) http://newsbusters.org/blogs/seton-motley/2009/02/27/essay-durbin-amendment-new-fairness-doctrine-kicker "Conservative and Christian talk radio face the real threat of government censorship on several fronts."
MRC's Free Speech Alliance Calls on Pres. Obama to Oppose
All Forms of Government Censorship on the Radio The President’s stated opposition to the Censorship Doctrine is not enough (Media Research Center - Press Release, Feb. 19, 2009) http://www.mrc.org/press/2009/press20090219.asp Media Research Center: Free Speech Alliance Defending free speech against a return of the Censorship Doctrine or any other assault on the First Amendment and talk radio http://www.mrcaction.org/517/petition.asp?PID=18840310 Past Articles/News:
Democrats Will Attempt To Re-Impose The Fairness Doctrine By J.D. Longstreet (WesternFront America, 12/18/2008) http://westernfrontamerica.com/2008/12/18/democrats-attempt-reimpose-fairness-doctrine Broadcast 'Fairness' Fouls Out
By George F. Will (Washington Post, 12/07/2008) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/05/AR2008120503194.html Extending the 'fairness doctrine' to the web
By Arthur Bruzzone (Examiner, 10/18/2008) http://www.examiner.com/x-431-SF-Politics-Examiner~y2008m10d18-Extending-the-fairness-doctrine-to-the-web 'Fairness' is censorship
(Washington Times - Editorial, 06/17/2008)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jun/17/fairness-is-censorship A New Stealth Fairness Doctrine
By Bob Ellis (Dakota Voice, 06/13/2008) http://www.dakotavoice.com/2008/06/a-new-stealth-fairness-doctrine Fairness Doctrine About As Fair as Patriot Act is Patriotic
Cheaters Don't Like The Score, So They Try To Change The Rules By Paul Joseph Watson (Prison Planet, 06/28/2007) http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2007/280607fairnessdoctrine.htm GOP preps for talk radio confrontation
By Alexander Bolton (The Hill, 06/27/2007) http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gop-preps-for-talk-radio-confrontation-2007-06-27.html Chilling The Internet? Lessons from FCC Regulation of Radio Broadcasting
By Thomas W. Hazlett and David W. Sosa (Cato Institute, March 19, 1997) https://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-270.html Why the Fairness Doctrine is Anything But Fair
By Adam Thierer (Heritage Foundation, Oct. 29, 1993) http://www.heritage.org/research/regulation/em368.cfm Research:
Govtrack - Legislation - 111st Congress S.Amdt. 591
An amendment to S. 160 District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009 To encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership, and to ensure that the public airwaves are used in the public interest. Sponsor: Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL] http://www.govtrack.us/congress/amendment.xpd?session=111&amdt=s591 U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 111th Congress - 1st Session: Amendment (Durbin Amdt. No. 591)
Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 591 to S. 160 (District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009) Statement of Purpose: To encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership, and to ensure that the public airwaves are used in the public interest. (United States Senate Legislation & Records) http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00070 Inhofe Warns ‘Durbin Doctrine’ is New ‘Fairness Doctrine’
Speaks Out Against Democrats’ New Stealth Attack on Free Speech [ U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe issued warning on Senate Floor about dangers of Democrats’ attempt to stifle Free Speech through their efforts to promote diversity in communication media ownership and promote Broadcast Localism. Senate passed legislation (S.Amdt.573) that prohibits Federal Communications Commission from reinstituting the fairness doctrine - amendment by Sen. Dick Durbin (R-Ill.) approved ] (James M. Inhofe U.S. Senator - Oklahoma [R], Press Release, Mar. 4, 2009) TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/djblq8 / TinyURL Preview: http://preview.tinyurl.com/djblq8
Senate Rejects Fairness Doctrine
All eyes now on FCC as Democrats open back-door censorship (Jim DeMint U.S. Senator, South Carolina, Feb. 26, 2009) TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/d6rj6r / TinyURL Preview: http://preview.tinyurl.com/d6rj6r DeMint to Force Vote Next Week on Bill to Stop Fairness Doctrine
President Obama says his administration opposes the Fairness Doctrine, which violates free speech; the DeMint-Thune Broadcaster Freedom Act take a stand against such censorship (Jim DeMint U.S. Senator, South Carolina, Feb. 19, 2009) TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/bz2brt / TinyURL Preview: http://preview.tinyurl.com/bz2brt Walden Congratulates Demint on Passage of Fairness Doctrine Prohibition In Senate
But Durbin amendment opens up a backdoor to the Fairness Doctrine (Greg Walden U.S. Congressman, Oregon, Feb. 26, 2009) http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/or02_walden/02_26_fairness_doctrine.shtml Greg Walden U.S. Congressman, Oregon - Issue Pages: Broadcaster Freedom Act
http://walden.house.gov/Issues.ViewIssue_id23.shtml Pence Files Amendment To Protect Against Censorship of Radio Airwaves
(Congressman Mike Pence 6th District Of Indiana [ R ], Feb 24, 2009) http://mikepence.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=112379 Congressman Mike Pence 6th District Of Indiana: Fairness Doctrine Update
http://mikepence.house.gov/fairnessdoctrine/fairnessdoctrine.htm Watch:
DeMint Introduces Broadcaster Freedom Act
[ Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) introduces the Broadcaster Freedom Act, which would allow Congress to take a stand against reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, during a speech on the Senate floor ] (YouTube: SenJimDeMint, Feb. 25, 2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQZ322c6MbM Rep. Greg Walden and Sen. Jim DeMint's Fairness Doctrine
press conference on Fox News [ Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) discuss two amendments adopted by Senate regarding so-called Fairness Doctrine. - amendment offered by Sen. DeMint would put an end to government censorship of speech on the airwaves. - amendment offered by Sen. Dick Durbin opens up backdoor to government censorship ] (YouTube: RepGregWalden, Feb. 26, 2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsRYiJ3rGkY YouTube - RepGregWalden 10/2007: Walden discusses the unFairness Doctrine
[ Greg Walden, U.S. Congressman, Oregon urges his colleagues to sign the petition to
bring an up or down vote on Broadcaster Freedom Act and Fairness Doctrine to House floor ]
[ Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwxbCrq_v0k ] [ Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2kJHz0KSQo ] [ Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oba6deHCAeQ ] [ Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRac34jBDyk ] [ Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9AZobIpbGQ ] Sen. Inhofe Responds to Democrats' Calls for 'Fairness Doctrine'
(YouTube: JimInhofePressOffice, Feb 12, 2009) [ James Inhofe, United States Senator, (R-OK) ] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sJ30HHxj2k Inhofe, Demint Press Conference on Fairness Doctrine (YouTube: JimInhofePressOffice, Jan 07, 2009) [ James Inhofe, United States Senator (R-OK) ] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbCSowAYmFk Unfair and Unbalanced
(Focus on the Family Action - CitizenLink: Stoplight 12/05/2008) [ Stuart Shepard explains how the efforts by Democratic leaders in Congress to force the so-called Fairness Doctrine on talk radio ] http://www.citizenlink.org/Stoplight/A000008831.cfm Petitions Urge Representatives to Oust Fairness Doctrine
(Focus on the Family Action - CitizenLink: Turn Signal, 07/01/2008) [ Focus on the Family Action is delivering petitions to U.S. House members asking for support of a moratorium on the controversial Fairness Doctrine ] http://www.citizenlink.org/turnsignal/A000007745.cfm Video/Article - NRB 2009: Fairness Doctrine, Hate Speech And Localism
By cwnewz network [ 2009 National Religious Broadcasters Convention - NRB Leaders made clear their concerns about Fairness Doctrine - clips: Janet Parshall, Craig Parshall, Ashton Hardy, Jay Sekulow ] (CWNEWZ - Christian Web News Feb. 17 2009) http://cwnewz.com/content/view/602/2/ Video/Article - Government Makes it Illegal or Not
By Rebecca Easterling (CWNEWZ - Christian Web News, Feb. 09, 2009) [ 2009 National Religious Broadcasters Convention, 2009 - Dr. Frank Wright, President and CEO of NRB voiced concerns for future of religious broadcasting. ] http://cwnewz.com/content/view/582/2/ . |
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