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This in, Courtesy of Stop the ACLU:


Vote to Kill ‘Fairness Doctrine’ Forever Could Come up Today
by Warner Todd Huston @ 1:31 pm. Filed under 1st Amendment, News

n an effort to kill it forever, Representative Mike Pence (R-Ind.) is attempting to force a vote on the floor of the House today over the future of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine.” Pence already secured passage of the “Free Flow of Information Act” to protect the press and is now launching an effort to nix the ability of the executive branch from re-instituting the woefully unfair “Fairness Doctrine,” a relic from the 1980s that deserves to remain dead and buried.

Using a somewhat arcane House rule called a “discharge Petition,” Pence and Representative Greg Walden (R- Ore.) are attempting to defy the House majority and force a vote on the measure. A “discharge petition” would need the support of 218 members of the House to force a vote and Pence already has 201names pledged to support him. He needs only 17 Democrats to join the effort and Pence can defeat the efforts of Nancy Pelosi to block the attempt.

Here is your cue. If you are in a district that sent a Democrat to the House of Representatives, call him immediately and ask him to support Mike Pence’s measure. If he can get this measure passed, we can prevent a future Democrat president from re-instituting the “Fairness Doctrine” by using his power to appoint left leaning FCC commissioners who will be compliant enough to reinstate this failed doctrine of the past. If Pence is successful, we can at least stop this newest attempt by the left to secure left leaning media bias and quash conservative voices in the media.

As Robert Bluey of the Heritage Foundation wrote on his Bluey Blog today:

The return of the Fairness Doctrine would be dreadful for broadcasters, many of whom have conservative viewpoints, Pence told a group of conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation yesterday. He said many political commentators would quit rather than keep talking because of the paperwork and legal issues that are likely to result.

Not only that but what station owner would go to all the Herculean efforts to include all voices in the political spectrum every single broadcast? Surely station owners would just assume not have any political commentary at all rather than bend over backwards, lose money, and give their hosts short shrift to satisfy this backwards and oppressive FCC rule?

Bluey continues:

Pence, himself a former radio-show host, was confident yet realistic about his chances of finding the votes. “I don’t think freedom is a partisan issue in the House of Representatives,” he said. He noted that 113 Democrats voted for a similar measure this summer that prevented the FCC from restoring the Fairness Doctrine for one year. Making that ban permanent won’t be as easy.

Folks, we have a chance to kill this abomination against free speech. I urge you folks with Democrat Representatives to call your House member ASAP.
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Ditto what he said, CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yet more tolerance of opposing views....

Courtesy of the left

From mlive.com

3 protesters jailed after disrupting Iran lecture at U-M
Hecklers call visiting speaker 'warhawk'
Saturday, December 02, 2006
BY DAVE GERSHMAN
News Staff Reporter
Three Ann Arbor residents accused of disrupting a lecture on the Middle East were arrested at the Michigan League Thursday evening, campus police said.

Raymond Tanter, a professor emeritus at U-M and current faculty member at Georgetown University, was scheduled to give a lecture called, "Stalled international diplomacy and problematic U.S. military options for Iran.'' The event was organized by a student group, the American Movement for Israel.

Protesters stood outside the league entrance before the lecture and were asked to move, said Diane Brown, a U-M spokeswoman.
Inside the building, Brown said organizers repeatedly warned a heckler over the course of an hour as Tanter gave his talk. Finally, organizers asked police to remove the most vocal and abusive protester, a 47-year-old woman, Brown said. The woman was arrested after she refused to leave.

Police said several other people interfered with officers arresting the woman, and two of them were arrested. The names of the people arrested were not released, but the other two were a 49-year-old man and a 60-year-old man, Brown said.

"On our campus, freedom of expression is an extremely valued ideal and issue,'' Brown said. "We certainly encourage even vigorous dialogue but we also recognize the rights of scheduled activities to occur, so that is why we have the freedom of speech and artistic expression policy and guidelines.''

Police plan to seek several charges against the three protesters, Brown said.

Henry Herskovitz, a frequent protester of Israeli policies in the Middle East, told The News that he was one of the people arrested. He called Tanter a "warhawk'' and said Tanter implied that Iran should be attacked - a claim Tanter denies.

Herskovitz said he jumped onto the woman who was being arrested because she was being roughed up by police officers. He said an officer pulled him off, and he jumped onto her again.

"They were just hurting her for the sake of hurting her,'' he said. "There were enough cops there, they could have just picked her up and carried her out.''
Brown said the woman used "passive resistance.''

"The officers used an appropriate level of controlled technique to affect the arrest, and to keep her and others nearby and themselves safe,'' Brown said.

Tanter, who teaches a course at Georgetown on terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, said he had to abandon the power point presentation and "wing it'' because of the protesters. He said he opposes using military force in Iran, but believes the United States needs to keep military options on the table to reinforce diplomatic solutions.

"I had an academic presentation, which I was not allowed to make because of the protesters,'' he said.

Tanter is the author of "Classifying evil: Bush administration rhetoric and policy toward rogue regimes,'' and "Rogue regimes: Terrorism and proliferation.'' He also served on the senior staff of the National Security Council during the Reagan administration.

Josh Berman, a senior and chairman of the student group, said protesters tried to "hijack'' the event. Berman said Tanter took questions from some of the protesters and gave them an opportunity to speak, but some of the protesters insulted him.

"They were trying to hijack the debate to reflect what they wanted to get across,'' Berman said. "They didn't want to listen and they did not want to talk.''

U-M policies say the university recognizes dissent but also recognizes the right of speakers to be heard. If a person continues to be disruptive after repeated warnings, he or she can be ejected from an event.

Reporter Dave Gershman can be reached at 734-994-6818 or dgershman@annarbornews.com.
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Nice job in supressing speech there chief. More and more incidents like this...how much must we put up with before we start giving back to them?

WAKE UP AMERICA...this is the liberal agenda!

This, friends, is how the left views free speech

First the shutdown of the speakers at Colombia University.

Then the denial of first amendment rights at Michigan University.

And now, we have this

From AZ Indymedia (for those that dont know, this is the site where liberal scum gather and congregate)

Minutemen Shut Down Online
by Radical Hacker International Saturday December 02, 2006 at 07:12 PM


Radical Hacker International announces the defacement of www.minutemanproject.com

Radical Hackers International (RHI), a collective of radical computer users, has took it upon themselves to close minutemanproject.com to the public for the time being.

If you follow the link to the site, be warned: After 10 seconds on the page, your browser may very well crash.

In addition, images placed on the site are not work safe.

This act of electronic resistance was done in solidarity with the oppressed and indigenous peoples of the earth. Our 500 year struggle will continue into the 21st century and beyond.

It will end only with victory.

www.minutemanproject.com
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So they launch a denial of service attack, a FELONY, on the minutemen website, and how do they congratulate themselves? A look at the comments tell the whole story:



A screen capture from their attack

Then someone pipes up:

yeah!
by m Sunday December 03, 2006 at 06:40 AM



I just checked the site and it seems up... if this did go through thats awesome.
Stop the MinuteKKKlan!

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Further up, they decided to post names and addresses of people who have accounts on the site.

Yep, free speech, as long its THEIR speech.

Its time for the conservatives to start giving back what the liberals are giving us....and do it in spades.