Chavez Shuts Down Free Speech!

sandy said:
Yeah. Because she's such a natural beauty?

http://uglyoftheday.com/node/75
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RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR........
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baron said:
There are US citizens in jail now for threatening or promoting the assassination of the President. ”

Who? Where? When? Saying such bullshit without any documentation is pretty underhanded and shitty of you, ya' know.
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? I can't make simple statements of fact, common knowledge even, without being called "underhanded" ?

How am I supposed to know you are so ignorant that I have to supply footnotes for stuff like that, lest you take offense ?

Here's a good essay on the topic, complete with examples and references. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/06/0081057 Sample quote:
I am therefore led to wonder what the common citizen is allowed to “say” anymore, in print or otherwise, and still feel reasonably sure that some indignant team of G-men, or else a pair of gung-ho local screws, will not drag him away to a detention center, there to act out, with the detainee as a prop, that familiar scene in which one hero cop or another is patriotically unable to resist certain outbursts against the detainee and what were once imagined to be the detainee's constitutional rights. Because I am loath to violate whatever fresh new mores the people have agreed upon, or have been told they agree upon, and because I do not care to have my ass kicked repeatedly in a holding cell while I beg to see a lawyer, I almost hesitate to ask the following question. I will ask it, though, out of what used to be called simple human decency:

Am I allowed to write that I would like to hunt down George W. Bush, the president of the United States, and kill him with my bare hands?
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Ican't resist. Here's another:
In 1917, before even a handful of presidents had been offed (and when Wilson, one of the worst, remained on), our first red-scare Congress resolved to build up a legislative wall between the chief executive and his many potential executioners. Murder was already a crime in this country, as was the attempt to commit murder, but the law did not differentiate between a president and a dirty voter, at least where victimhood was concerned, despite the fact that the president clearly was not of the people, was not a common citizen given great responsibility by the people, but was rather a great man in need of uncommon protection from the people. That is, he was a party hack, often delusional, whose permission to rob and mislead the people for the benefit of his friends had not yet been cemented into law, and whose ability to perform that function was being compromised every time one of the suckers managed to shoot him.
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I liked the 14-year old girl who said Bush should die on her MySpace page only to have Homeland Security go to her home and take action, heh..

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I'm surprised those TV stations weren't shut down for their criminal acticities years ago. Whover is running those stations should be prosecuted.
 
lixluke said:
I'm surprised those TV stations weren't shut down for their criminal acticities years ago. Whover is running those stations should be prosecuted.
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Sure, Lix, from all of your posts, it seems perfectly natural that you'd side with a powerful dictator. But even you, ...don't you ask yourself why that station and the reporters were saying the things that they did? ...that perhaps there's some truth in what they were saying?

And curiously, if Chavez is such a wonderful and great man, why would anyone say anything bad about him????

Baron Max
 
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