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President’s Religious Freedom Appointee Part of Muslim Event Calling for Limiting Freedom of Speech

Mar 27th, 2013 | By
President’s Religious Freedom Appointee Part of Muslim Event Calling for Limiting Freedom of Speech

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dr. Qasim Rashid, an American-Muslim human rights activist, said in a speech at Howard University that America’s free-speech model is in desperate need of an update. Rashid believes that cyber-bullying laws should be used to limit freedom of expression – such as the burning of Korans – in wartime. “When a nation is at war, many things that might be said in times of peace are a hindrance to this effort,” Rashid said.  “And their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight and… no court can regard them as
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NJ Mother Charged With Making “Terrorist Threats” After Reading Constitution At Tax Forum

Mar 15th, 2013 | By
NJ Mother Charged With Making “Terrorist Threats” After Reading Constitution At Tax Forum

MONROEVILLE, NJ – New Jersey mother Eileen Hart was arrested last Saturday at a public tax forum after peacefully protesting the handling of her property tax case. Hart’s husband and seven-year-old daughter were with present with her at the Gloucester Community Center as she presented her case for refusing to allow property tax inspectors to enter her home days earlier. Hart is an orthodox Jew and had refused to have the inspectors in her home when her husband was away at work. During the forum, she was told that since she didn’t let the inspectors into
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When The Crisis Hits – Will The Feds Cut Our Cell Service?

Feb 27th, 2013 | By
When The Crisis Hits –  Will The Feds Cut Our Cell Service?

The Arab spring hit Egypt with full force, and we watched a country band together to rid itself of a ruler with whom it could no longer live. We all heard the media coverage of a “Twitter revolution,” and despite government attempts to black out the Internet, citizens found new and innovative back doors that allowed them to use social networking to organize protests, secret meetings, and shape the revolution. To many of us, it seems unlikely that this could happen in the United States, but we may be closer than we think. Companies are
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In the Name of Tolerance: Free Speech under Siege

Jun 15th, 2012 | By
In the Name of Tolerance: Free Speech under Siege

Ever since the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791, there have been people trying their hardest to come up with reasons why these important amendments to the U.S. Constitution really don’t mean what they seem to mean. The First Amendment, with its insistence that the rights of free speech never be abridged, has been
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