[ April 19, 2024 ]
Do check out my weekly commentary in today's WND. Here is a short excerpt, but read the whole thing.
Tennessee passes worst law ever Pamela Geller
Story continues below advertisementWhile everyone in the counter jihad movement lauded Tennessee for the recent passage of a watered-down (and mostly symbolic) "anti-terrorism" bill, another bill that the Tennessee Legislature quietly passed could be the worst law ever. Completely under the radar screen, with no debate or histrionics, Tennessee has just criminalized thought and intent. According to journalist Timothy B. Lee, writing at the Ars Technica website, "A new Tennessee law makes it a crime to 'transmit or display an image' online that is likely to 'frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress' to someone who sees it. Violations can get you almost a year in jail time or up to $2,500 in fines."
This legislation is a milestone in the history of free speech and free thought in the United States – yes, a milestone that Sayyid Qutb would love: a deathblow to free speech. You can be sure that among the first people who will try to capitalize upon this gross violation of the First Amendment will be the Islamic supremacist groups in the U.S. that are bent on silencing people who are telling the truth about Islam and jihad.
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Yet hardly anyone has noticed this legislation in all the excitement over Tennessee's anti-terror law. Forgive me for not jumping up and down over all this anti-Shariah legislation. I appreciate and respect its intent, but, ultimately, I think it is pointless. The Constitution specifies the freedoms that the government is not supposed to take away, and these include the freedoms that Shariah denies. So the Constitution covers the same ground as anti-Shariah legislation. The Constitution is supposed to have our backs. If we can't rely on the Constitution and the First Amendment in particular to safeguard our freedoms, then watered-down "foreign law prohibition legislation" is not going to save us.
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15 Comments
12 years ago
Can these people who introduced, and voted to pass this “law” onto the statute book not be challenged somehow. How can this be, for America of all countries to do this to its self is so sad.
12 years ago
That’s what I was thinking..hmm?
12 years ago
…”A new Tennessee law makes it a crime to ‘transmit or display an image’ online that is likely to ‘frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress’….
WELCOME TO THE DICATORSHIP USA (behind the curtain of democracy)
OBOWma just follows the dhimmi (9:29) United Nations
…
http://newstime.co.nz/video-islam-in-europe-ends-free-speech-criminalizing-criticism-of-islam-un-blasphemy-law.html
Video: Islam in Europe Ends Free Speech – Criminalizing Criticism of Islam (UN blasphemy law)
00:50 … the difference between
free speech & hate speech
is dictated by politically correctness and fear of Islam
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2009/gashc3966.doc.htm
…DEFAMATION of religions and incitement to religious HATRED had become aggravating factors that contributed to the DENIAL OF fundamental rights and FREEDOMS of members of target groups (e.g. jihadwatch.org Dr. Terry Jones), as well as their economic and social exclusion….
12 years ago
This law could have been written by CAIR or for that matter come right out of the Quran. Have these dumb shits in Tennessee forgotten about our 1st amendment? They should all be banished to the deepest pits of hell for their insane stupidity.
12 years ago
well done guys
12 years ago
To paraphrase Neil Shute – freedom of speech ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
12 years ago
Boy, is Anthony Weiner lucky he doesn’t live in Tennessee.
12 years ago
I bet that whether this stands hinges on who the first group to get a lawsuit to the Supreme Court (whether state or US). If it is CAIR, we’re screwed. If, however, the first group is a porno, or urine-soaked anti-Christian, then it will be struck down.
One would hope that the first suit brought, regardless of source would have this law ruled unconstitutional. But I’m not holding my breath.
12 years ago
It can, yes. Question is, will it?
12 years ago
I think Pamela has two basic concerns re Islam.
She sees Islam as a political system (Sharia) flying under the cover of “religion,” sees Islam’s mandate to impose Sharia as a potential threat to our basic human rights under the constitution (which is the supreme law of the land in the US-except for true Muslims).
She also sees Islam as a potential existential threat to Jewish people because of the institutionalized Jew-hating in the Qu’ran.
(I think she’s right in both concerns, and couldn’t care less about Islam or Muslims if not for those two things-both of which are at the core of Muslim Jihad, and hence Muslim violence.)
The problem with this kind of (Tenn.) law is that it will become a tool of harassment against people who express ideas and opinions that are critical of Islam and Sharia, a tool that will be used by Muslims and others who “feel threatened” and “feel uncomfortable” reading or hearing criticism of Islam to file legal complaints against Islam’s critics.
The first amendment protects all political speech (ideas and opinions). It has never been considered to protect speech which calls for harming other people via violence (incitement), or preventing others from expressing ideas and opinions. So what’s the purpose of the Tenn. law?
The Tennessee law is intended to silence free political speech (ideas and opinions).
12 years ago
Wouldn’t this law also make people that e mail photos of their holidays, family, and other things like that over the internet to some one else be cause to breaking the law?
Like you send a video over the internet of your son learning to ride his bike and he falls over and get a few bumps and scrapes. Would that video cause it a to be a crime by this definition ‘transmit or display an image’ online that is likely to ‘frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress’ to someone who sees it. Wouldn’t that child falling give you the smallest bit of fright and for sure emotional distress. It would scare you for the smallest of time. So how you have seen a crime.
Or you two or three year old, trying to take his first steps, he falls, would that not frighten you, or at least give you emotional distress for the smallest of time?
Guess while in Tennessee you either not take a pictures of anything ever again or you move out of Tennessee.
Plus would this also apply to the news people showing all they show that emotional distresses us every day. Because the news goes over mostly cable now and they do have their web sights to send news over.
And will this be applied to the whole country when some one sues some one else or some company for display pictures and words that emotional distress them?
Or am I just getting way to paranoid?
This could turn into a really BIG KA-BOOM.
12 years ago
will the aclu
challenge this
even tho it has nothing directly
to do with pornography
12 years ago
Thinking more about this law in Tennessee, how about all those on line blogs that have T-shirts, mugs, hats and other stuff for sale with pictures of Americans flags, military logos, and all the other pictures that you can put on stuff to sell. Wouldn’t some of these pictures be covered under this law also? This is going to be very interesting on who is going to be charged and whom is not.
12 years ago
Like no other time in history, the whole world is now embroiled in chaos and catastrophe most similar to a world war. We have been basically stripped of our rights, options and opportunities like refugees of an occupied defeated country.
People need to gather their family and friends together and begin caching food, water and other supplies in order to outlast the economic and environmental collapse that will play out slowly over the next couple years.
http://www.familysurvivalcenter.com/supplies.htm
12 years ago
This law is the beginning of ‘Human Rights’ laws trumping individual natural rights
The key word is ‘likely’… There is no limit to ‘likely’
