Danish magazine for lawyers: Free speech is only democratic as long as it does not provoke violent people
Freedom of speech is the first, last and most essential freedom. The right to hold any view and to express it. It’s the most fundamental tenet of a free society. No ifs, ands, buts or sharia. Western elites are framing sharia restrictions on speech (blasphemy) under the Orwellian guise of tolerance. But what could be…

The information battlespace is being waged outside the hallowed halls of the enemedia. The Islamic supremacist group Muslim Advocates has announced that its Annual Gala 2014 on May 3 will host an “onstage conversation” about “countering hate on the internet” featuring Monika Bickert, the Head of Global Policy Management for Facebook, along with Muslim Advocates’ Executive Director Farhana Khera and Hilary Shelton of the NAACP.
In our ongoing fight for free speech with the city of Boston, we had filed a second lawsuit against the MBTA for their capricious and arbitrary flouting of the First Amendment.
The Obama administration has now endangered the hallmark of Internet freedom. The Obama administration made the surprise announcement that it will relinquish its oversight of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Global governance of the internet. “Global governance?” As in the UN. And who and what drives the UN? The OIC. The Organization of the Islamic Conference will doubtless demand the suppression of websites that “insult Islam” or “encourage hatred,” and a number of European countries will go along.
We fired our latest salvo against the suppression and restriction of our First Amendment rights in deference to the blasphemy laws under the sharia. The American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed its opening brief on Friday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, appealing a lower federal court ruling that denied AFLC’s motion for a preliminary injunction.
As the Constitutional Convention was ending in 1787, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got: a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin replied: “A republic, if you can keep it.” Apparently, we can’t.


