Tennessee Prosecutor Gets Backlash Over His Attack on Free Speech

Here is a good report on the DoJ's anti-free speech initiative in Tennessee last week, and our hugely successful AFDI protest against it.

Prosecutor gets backlash over free-speech 'attack' WND June 9, 2013

Bill
Killian, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, has begun
to see backlash from his appearance this week at a Muslim event where
he suggested some statements about Islam on social media could be
prosecuted under the nation’s civil rights laws.

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According to free speech blogger Pamela Geller, “my winning legal counsel,” the American Freedom Law Center lawyers, have asked for details from the executive office for U.S. Attorneys in the U.S. Department of Justice.

Killian made headlines because he told a Tennessee newspaper he would
be at the American Muslim Advisory Council of Tennessee and “provide
input on how civil rights can be violated by those who post inflammatory
documents targeted at Muslims on social media.”

His comments were made to the Tullahoma News in Tennessee.

Geller, who participated in a free speech rally and attended the
Tennessee meeting, confirmed that David Yerushalmi, co-founder and
senior counsel for the AFLC, has dispatched a letter to federal
officials, asking for “records, reports, writings, notes, documents,
memoranda, emails, photographs, videotapes, tape recordings, PowerPoint
presentations, or other statements or recordings.”

Requested is information relating to Killian’s appearance at the “Public Disclosure in a Diverse Society” event.

Also requested are the documents and recordings used in the
presentation by Kenneth Moore, special agent in charge of the FBI’s
Knoxville office, at the same event.

Geller called the event a “full frontal attack on free speech.’

In contrast, the Council on American-Islamic Relations issued a statement praising the meeting.

“We applaud the federal officials who, while defending First
Amendment freedoms, stood up for the right of American Muslims to be
free from bias-motivated attacks and intimidation,” said CAIR
communications chief Ibrahim Hooper. “The mob mentality demonstrated at
last night’s event should be a wakeup call to all Americans who value
religious tolerance.”

Geller noted  CAIR was started “as a Hamas front group to carry out the Muslim Brotherhood’s anti-American agenda.”

“The evidence shows that CAIR is a criminal terrorist organization,”
she said. “This conclusion is shared by the United States government.
CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in a massive conspiracy to
fund raise for, and otherwise pursue, the terrorist agenda of the Muslim
Brotherhood and the Palestine Committee, a public relations and fund
raising arm of Hamas in the United States.”

She continued: “This group is applauding the attempt to restrict free speech. Are you surprised?”

Geller reported on the event itself.

“Killian gave a power point presentation on hate crimes and hate
speech. From beginning to end it was full of condescension, smears,
charges that the crowd was racist, and thinly veiled threats that
truthful speech about Islam could be prosecuted. Never once did he
address the fact that people aren’t concerned about Muslims because of
racism and xenophobia, but because of the reality of jihad terror and
the uniform denial and obfuscation, and victimhood posture, that follows
from Muslim communities after every jihad attack.”

She said Killian “even stooped so low as to claim a sharp rise in
‘religiously motivated hate crimes,’ without ever informing the crowd
that he was lumping in anti-Semitic hate crimes (which are at worldwide
record levels, largely due to Islamic antisemitism) with anti-Muslim
hate crimes.”

WND reported Killian’s description of his plans for the Muslim event.

“This is an educational effort with civil rights laws as they play
into freedom of religion and exercising freedom of religion,” he said.
“This is also to inform the public what federal laws are in effect and
what the consequences are.”

He said everyone needs to understand that Internet postings that violate civil rights are subject to federal jurisdiction.

After all, he said, while some Muslims may blow up buildings, hijack
airliners and kill thousands, there are terrorists of other religions,
too.

“[Oklahoma City bombers] Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were both
Christians as was the guy who shot up the Sikh temple [in Wisconsin],”
Killian claimed.

The government’s intention to crack down on “anti-Muslim” speech immediately made Judicial Watch’s “Corruption Chronicles” feature.

“In its latest effort to protect followers of Islam in the U.S. the
Obama Justice Department warns against using social media to spread
information considered inflammatory against Muslims, threatening that it
could constitute a violation of civil rights,” the organization said.

Judicial Watch noted that the Obama administration already has
reached out to personally reassure Muslims that the DOJ is protecting
them. In that unprecedented move, Attorney General Eric Holder assured a
San Francisco-based group called Muslim Advocates, which urges members
not to cooperate with federal investigations, that he is grateful to
have Muslims with whom to partner.

The Obama administration also has hired a special Homeland Security
adviser, Mohamed Elibiary, who openly supports an Islamist theologian
who condemns U.S. prosecutions of terrorists, Judicial Watch said.

In addition, the president has ordered NASA to focus on Muslim
diplomacy, and Homeland Security officials covertly have met with
extremist Arab, Muslim and Sikh groups to talk about national security
matters.

The State Department lent its weight by sending anti-America imam
Feisal Abdul Rauf on a trip to the Middle East for outreach to Muslims.

Explained Judicial Watch: “Over the years, the Obama administration
has embarked on a fervent crusade to befriend Muslims by creating a
variety of outreach programs at a number of key federal agencies.”

Tullahoma News said Killian wants to let people know about Muslim culture and civil rights laws.

“We want to inform everybody about what the law is, but more
importantly, we want to provide what the law means to Muslims, Hindus
and every other religion in the country.’

The Obama administration also is launching a series of Muslim Outreach Summits so that Muslims can tell federal officials how they can better serve that community.

WND initially discovered documents referring to the Muslim summits while examining a U.S. Department of Education procurement of data-gathering and report-writing services.

The services are specific to information being assembled by the White
House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, or WHIAAPI,
which Obama created via executive order in 2009.

Upon closer inspection, however, WND learned that the Education
Department explicitly will direct the selected contractor to chronicle
findings and recommendations gleaned from the Muslim Outreach Summits.

The White House views this year’s venues as an extension of a
previous outreach to “new immigrants and refugees – some of the most
underserved in the AAPI community,” according to a document titled “WHIAAPI 2013 Faith-Based and Community Engagement.”

Complementing the prior effort will be the three “regional
convenings,” tentatively scheduled June 15 in Chicago, June 22 in San
Francisco and June 29 in New York City.

“These cities are main AAPI immigrant hubs and entry points for new
immigrants/refugees,” according to a related document, “Questions
Received from Vendors: Development and Preparation of the AAPI Annual Report to the President.”

“Each convening with [sic] include panel discussions/workshops with
federal officials on key issues impacting the community and also an
open-dialogue session to hear directly from the community about issues
of concern.”

Sometime after the three Muslim Outreach Summits, the chosen
contractor will develop and then present its summary report to the
president and to newly appointed WHIAAPI commissioners.

The contracting action – the first of its kind since its inception in
2008 – will help lay the foundation for the initiative’s future work,
the document says.

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Charlie

10 years ago

McVeigh was an agnostic by his own admission even on the day of his death. An agnostic is not a Christian. It seems like some try to describe McVeigh and others like him as committed Christians who were acting out of a desire to perform/promote their religious duties. It does not wash.

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Larry Moore

10 years ago

Pamela needs to look at what a local paper, the Tullahoma News, has said about this event and about her. I was at the event but I have to wonder if anyone from the newpaper was actually there because what they put on the front page of the paper and in the editorial section was some of the most biased stuff I have ever seen from a so called news organization. They quoted things from the southern poverty law center (which says volumes about the reliability of this newspaper)and leveled accusations against Pamela Geller that were pretty outrageous. We not only have a problem in this area with free speech being threated but we also appear to have a severe problem with this local paper that appears to be completely biased and out of control with a definite slant towards the Muslim point of view. I have been reading the junk that this paper prints for the last few months and I really feel that the problem is so severe that the community needs to consider a boycott of the Tullahoma News!

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Burkasrugly

10 years ago

This newspaper is a farce. Come on, isn’t there a group of conservatives who can pool their money and start a REAL newspaper to compete with this terrible excuse for journalism? And make it be a newspaper that gives OUR side of the story fairly.

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American Woman

10 years ago

A newspaper that actually printed the truth could easily be done if Breitbart, Geller,Spencer, Greenfield and some other Blogs joined forces. They could supply articles from their blogs and lay out could be done by an artistic director. Readers could purchase digital copies via tablets, kindles, etc.
It could be a national paper like USA Today only with one big readers’ comment section.
That said, it is important to point out that Tennessee may be lost. The pols and the newspapers sold out the people there when they agreed to support a mega mosque against the wishes of the citizens most impacted by it. Even Tenn school boards appear to have sided with the fascists.
It is a process that the MB will attempt to repeat again and again as it tries to carry out its 100 year plan.

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American Woman

10 years ago

A newspaper that actually printed the truth could easily be done if Breitbart, Geller,Spencer, Greenfield and some other Blogs joined forces. They could supply articles from their blogs and lay out could be done by an artistic director. Readers could purchase digital copies via tablets, kindles, etc.
It could be a national paper like USA Today only with one big readers’ comment section.
That said, it is important to point out that Tennessee may be lost. The pols and the newspapers sold out the people there when they agreed to support a mega mosque against the wishes of the citizens most impacted by it. Even Tenn school boards appear to have sided with the fascists.
It is a process that the MB will attempt to repeat again and again as it tries to carry out its 100 year plan.

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Drew the Infidel

10 years ago

It should be noted that McVeigh’s crimes and his subsequent execution were almost twenty years ago while the islamic threat is an ongoing problem dating from the early ’90s, most prominently the ’93 attack on the World Trade Center.

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No dhimmi tool

10 years ago

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Pamela, David, staff and supporters, for doing what I personally cannot do.
Your bravery and drive in the face of fierce opposition, including the U.S. government, are an inspiration to us all.
These arrogant SOBs in office need the fear of the public put in them, as they believe they can run ripshod over OUR rights to object to the world’s most violent and misogynistic ideology. No, sir, you will NOT be endangering my gender by not allowing me to speak out against Islam’s virulent women-hatred, oppression and slavery.
Why don’t these dishonest idiots ever ask themselves why Islam – like no other belief system – is under fire so much globally, on every inhabited continent? No one (except Muslims) in the West is complaining about Buddhists, Sikhs and Hindus, for example. We are not mindlessly prejudiced.
Islam is being shoved down our throats left and right, as some of us predicted many years ago would happen. The government is complicit beyond belief in this enterprise to enslave us all under this vicious ideology. It is helping to Islamize the East and Europe, and that massive block of Islamofascism will make our enslavement easier.
We need to push back and show them we are not pushovers, and you are doing such an excellent job. One I wish I could do but alas cannot.
Kudos to you for showing that the U.S.A. is a governed by the people and for the people.
We shall overcome!

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