Wednesday, August 15, 2007
"The lawfare strategy of libel tourism"
Andy McCarthy explores the impact of British libel laws on American free expression, and how it is being used by rich Saudis to prevent publicity of their own support for the jihad. Read it all.
4 Comments:
By 
D.E. Cloutier, at
Wed Aug 15, 08:00:00 PM:
Saudis will act like Saudis. Journalists will act like journalists. The British created the problem. The British need to fix it.
Meanwhile, from AFP:
"A British clown has had the smile wiped off his face after being told he could not use balloons in his act because children might be allergic to latex...He said he was also told by one venue he could not twist balloons into the shape of guns for fear of encouraging youngsters to commit violence..."
The clown said, "Things are going from crazy to ridiculous."
Link:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/15/2005303.htm
By 
, at
Thu Aug 16, 01:01:00 AM:
It seems no one can do anything without offending some bunch of whinny sniveling cry babies i mean what now? i mean they have turned to using the term BEFORE COMMON ERA and COMMON ERA instead of BC and AD i mean before long they will ban clowns from hitting each other in the face with pies becuase kids might do it with rocks LIBERALS ARE JERKS and SUADIS AND SCREWY
By Dawnfire82, at
Thu Aug 16, 08:10:00 AM:
Behold the dark side of globalization. Back when it was a buzz word, no one thought that in addition to an increase in trade and the exchange of good ideas that we'd have to deal with exchanges of bad ideas and (what I consider to be) backward foreign laws affecting our citizens.
Aside, Muslim activists using the law to try to intimidate political opponents is more widespread than we think. Another example:
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/08/01/breaking-cair-threatens-young-americas-foundation-seeks-to-stifle-robert-spencer/
A group was threatened with legal action because they planned on hosting a speaker that the activists didn't like.
Fortunately, the activists in question in this case (CAIR) were told, "[You] can go to Hell and [you] can take [your] 72 virgins with [you,]" which makes me smile every time I think about it.
These people have no respect, literally 0, for tolerating the free speech of others. Marches by masked Muslims with signs reading "Freedom go to Hell" and "Your 9/11 is on its way" are ok, but if you say 'Muhammad was a pedophile' (which is literally true under modern law) they'll riot and try to kill you.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5932/1957/1600/religion_of_peace_1.jpg
In Belgium, recently, a city mayor forbade a planned 9/11 memorial because 'it might offend the Muslims and they'll hurt someone.'
How far does the intimidation have to go, I wonder, before Europeans will tell their minority oppressors to 'go to Hell?' Or will they ever?
By D.E. Cloutier, at
Thu Aug 16, 11:39:00 AM:
Dawnfire82:
Voice of America did a nice, positive feature on CAIR two months ago:
http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2007-06/2007-06-14-voa66.cfm
Your tax money at work.
