Pamela Geller in Commentary Magazine: Free Speech Under Threat in the United States

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COMMENTARY Magazine has devoted their July-August edition to an issue-length symposium in which many prominent writers, activists and thinkers were asked to respond to the question, “Is free speech under threat in the United States?” I was asked to contribute. The following is an excerpt from my piece in COMMENTARY’s symposium on the threat to free speech. Go read it all:

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PAMELA GELLER:

Symposium: Is Free Speech Under Threat in the United States?

Commentary Magazine, July – August Issue:

The real question isn’t whether free speech is under threat in the United States, but rather, whether it’s irretrievably lost. Can we get it back? Not without war, I suspect, as is evidenced by the violence at colleges whenever there’s the shamefully rare event of a conservative speaker on campus.

Free speech is the soul of our nation and the foundation of all our other freedoms. If we can’t speak out against injustice and evil, those forces will prevail. Freedom of speech is the foundation of a free society. Without it, a tyrant can wreak havoc unopposed, while his opponents are silenced.

With that principle in mind, I organized a free-speech event in Garland, Texas. The world had recently been rocked by the murder of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists. My version of “Je Suis Charlie” was an event here in America to show that we can still speak freely and draw whatever we like in the Land of the Free. Yet even after jihadists attacked our event, I was blamed—by Donald Trump among others—for provoking Muslims. And if I tried to hold a similar event now, no arena in the country would allow me to do so—not just because of the security risk, but because of the moral cowardice of all intellectual appeasers.

Under what law is it wrong to depict Muhammad? Under Islamic law. But I am not a Muslim, I don’t live under Sharia. America isn’t under Islamic law, yet for standing for free speech, I’ve been:

  • Prevented from running our advertisements in every major city in this country. We have won free-speech lawsuits all over the country, which officials circumvent by prohibiting all political ads (while making exceptions for ads from Muslim advocacy groups);
  • Shunned by the right, shut out of the Conservative Political Action Conference;
  • Shunned by Jewish groups at the behest of terror-linked groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations;
  • Blacklisted from speaking at universities;
  • Prevented from publishing books, for security reasons and because publishers fear shaming from the left;
  • Banned from Britain.

A Seattle court accused me of trying to shut down free speech after we merely tried to run an FBI poster on global terrorism, because authorities had banned all political ads in other cities to avoid running ours. Seattle blamed us for that, which was like blaming a woman for being raped because she was wearing a short skirt.

This kind of vilification and shunning is key to the left’s plan to shut down all dissent from its agenda—they make legislation restricting speech unnecessary.

The same refusal to allow our point of view to be heard has manifested itself elsewhere. The foundation of my work is individual rights and equality for all before the law. These are the foundational principles of our constitutional republic. That is now considered controversial. Truth is the new hate speech. Truth is going to be criminalized.

The First Amendment doesn’t only protect ideas that are sanctioned by the cultural and political elites. If “hate speech” laws are enacted, who would decide what’s permissible and what’s forbidden? The government? The gunmen in Garland?

There has been an inversion of the founding premise of this nation. No longer is it the subordination of might to right, but right to might. History is repeatedly deformed with the bloody consequences of this transition.

Pamela Geller is the editor in chief of the Geller Report and president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative.

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marblenecltr
marblenecltr
6 years ago

If one wants hate speech, listen to some imams presenting Qur’an and Hadith inspired preaching.

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  marblenecltr

That is free speech under Islamic sharia law !

But infidels daring to oppose islam/jihad or expose the truth about Islam that is Islamophobia (hate speech ) in Islamic hellholes like UK/EU and parts of USA !

Of course, all rights and freedom are to be given to Muslims and non-muslims do not have any rights as dhimmis ! And Left/liberal pro-jihadi loons allow it !

Infidels do not even have right to protest against crimes committed by Muslims . If they dare try it they get harassed, lose jobs, jailed or killed http://bit.ly/2r6F3cp

welcome to Islamic hellhole !

Fox News is in the crapper....
Fox News is in the crapper....
6 years ago
Reply to  marblenecltr

Fox News is doing a good job of lying and deceiving as well so apparently SOME free speech is alive and well. Check out this article complaining about all the violence TOWARD Muztards. Notice that the Foxnews chickensh*ts apparently did not allow comments.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/06/19/london-van-attack-against-muslims-highlights-rise-in-anti-muslim-violence-by-right-wing-extremists.html

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Beverleywhowell
6 years ago
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RobertLaity
RobertLaity
6 years ago
Reply to  marblenecltr

It is getting to the point where only Muslims CAN say what they want.

theAKA mark
theAKA mark
6 years ago

You said war and that’s what it will come to if we’re to be free to speak our minds again.

newsel
newsel
6 years ago

Pamela, well said and you are 100% correct.

Disinformation and propaganda goes unchallenged: “Thus, for example, U.S. director of National Intelligence James Clapper incredibly described the organization as “largely secular”

http://www.meforum.org/6562/the-muslim-brotherhood-fountain-of-islamist

joc22D
joc22
6 years ago
Reply to  newsel

I just read the link you sent. WTF is this, the MB considered a secular group by Clapper the former head of US National Intelligence. Is this guy for real or is just a paid stooge of the MB. I guess he didn’t use Google to find the MB’s manifesto, It’s written there in plan English for anyone with half a brain to read.
My lord the US is quickly slipping down the rabbit hole if the people at the top don’t wake the F up

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago
Reply to  joc22

Crapper is a muslim, and supports islam. Thats why obola placed him in authoritycomment image

joc22D
joc22
6 years ago
Reply to  dad1927

Ex CIA Director Brenner is a muslim also if I’m not mistaken. Just watched 13 Hours again, what Brenner, Clinton and Obama didn’t do was a clear case of “Dereliction of Duty” . Why these people didn’t face charges is a mystery.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  joc22

The guys who saved the State Dept Security at the diplomatic compound in Benghazi were all mercs. In the book, one of them explains the leader of their muslum militiamen “allies” called the leader of the muslums attacking the diplomatic compound. They also stated they saw official police vehicles casing the CIA annex before it was attacked.

CrystalDawn0603
CrystalDawn0603
6 years ago

The Left are tyrants. They want control and power over people and will use any means to get it. They are what the Founding Fathers fought against. The ability to say and do according to your conscience is why this country was founded, but that’s not what the bullies on the playground want: they want people to do as THEY say.

kikorikid
kikorikid
6 years ago

Yes, we are under a “Tyranny of the Minority”. The kind
our Founders warned us about. They were also thoughtful towards
the remedy. Of course the Ballot Box First. Then, the 2nd Amendment
comes to the fore. It seems to be clear that the intent of the Left is
for ever increasing levels of violence, the Ballpark Shooting brought
the use of Firearms into the dialogue. If there are any more Left-on-Right
shootings ,The United States will quickly turn into a “Open-Carry” country.
Who knows how that will roll out. It will roll out. There are many millions
of Constitutional Patriots who will gladly “Stand-Too” against those who
oppose our Constitution. 11B

Craig
Craig
6 years ago
Reply to  kikorikid

If you pay attention, you will see calls for killing Trump voters and conservatives at Mediaite, Mother Jones, Facebook and Twitter from the fascist anti-American left.
All Constitution-loving Americans must buy a gun, learn how to use it and carry it always.
Otherwise, they will die at the hands of the fascists like bleating sheep.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago
Reply to  Craig

Agreed. And those who think the media is not radicalizing the whack jobs among us as some sort of “American ISIS” need only ask the attendees at that congressional baseball practice. A congressman from KY is proposing a law for all congressmen that allows reciprocity, that is, the ability of holders of concealed carry licenses in their home states to have legal standing for those licenses anywhere they go, including DC. That’s got my vote.

ninetyninepct
ninetyninepct
6 years ago

The media and all black masked terrorists must go first. Protect yourselves, the Government won’t and the police can’t.

Stockpile guns and ammo.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago
Reply to  ninetyninepct

The Second Amendment protects all the others.

RobertLaity
RobertLaity
6 years ago

“The second amendment is the reset button of the US Constitution”-Doug McKay

Blow their a$$es off
Blow their a$$es off
6 years ago

They should be able to carry any place in the USA with no carry permit, and each congressional class should be required to attend a session on gun use and safety whether they intend to carry or not. They should also have a marksmanship club or tactical gun club. What is to stop a band of criminals from attacking the congress? Probably not much today, but if even 10% of them were packin’ that would be some serious resistance.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

I’m like those old American Express ads, “Don’t leave home without it.”

Sage Nighthawk
Sage Nighthawk
6 years ago

If Americans with Drivers License has 50 State Reciprocity then so should all of us who have a Concealed Carry Permit be allowed to Carry in ANY U.S. State or Territory ! PERIOD ! GIVE all of us our Second Amendment Rights!

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago
Reply to  Sage Nighthawk

Agreed. I’m with you on that. If someone is screened in one state it should be good enough for all. The only fly in the ointment might be AZ which has no license, anyone can carry.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Everyone should follow Arizona’s lead.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

In electing Insane McCain?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

Absolutely, to have more crazy people being interviewed, would make the lame stream media look even stupider, if that is possible.

Hardrock
Hardrock
6 years ago
Reply to  kikorikid

I’m all for open carry, but when the Call for an “Open Carry Country” as you mention comes into play, it will be interesting to see if the police support the Second Amendment. I think it’s long overdue for the Militia of of decades past to once again emerge as the saviors of our freedom.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

I wonder if the leftists are the puppets or the puppet masters of islum and muslums? I tend to think the former.

CrystalDawn0603
CrystalDawn0603
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

Same here and they’ve tied themselves up

tokoloshiman
tokoloshiman
6 years ago

Pamela Geller’s on going war for all of us! Kudos to this incredible and very brave and brilliant lady!!

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
6 years ago
Reply to  tokoloshiman

Well said, and what a sobering picture Pamela presented.

Though I walk through the.....
Though I walk through the.....
6 years ago
Reply to  Rob Porter

Very well written indeed!
Excellent job Pamela!
Be safe – we have many enemies who would love to destroy us.

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soundclick.com/Globalfirm
6 years ago

What can motivate us is, if we ask ourselves is freedom of speech under threat in the world? A global outlook, for a better future.
When Africans are enslaved on the African continent & the middle east, when atheists are being killed by Muslims, when the connection of sadist & racist Sharia-rules to their founder Muhammad are being censored in America, it can motivate us to ask, who are we, what is our identity, who do we want to be?
Truth is very powerful, that’s why some want it censored.
#BoycottIslam
#Ban Islam, save lives worldwide & free the African slaves from Saudi Arabia to Mauritania, the Biafra-leader, the Leavenworth 10, Israeli soldier Azaria, Salim Masih & so on.

Christian Gains
Christian Gains
6 years ago

While I DESPERATELY PRAY that I’m wrong, I, (being a History lover), am DEEPLY CONCERNED that we are repeating the SERIOUS ERRORS of England, in the 1930’s! Winston Churchill’s “THE GATHERING STORM”, (Pg. 3 thru pg. 340), [First of his 6 volume SET On the History of W.W.II];

He CLEARLY details how the LIBERAL PARTY in power then, UTTERLY ignored the BLATANTLY OBVIOUS activities & policies of the NAZI Regime; thus ALLOWING, (through EITHER naivety OR compliance with the Hitlarian Regime), Hitler to:
#1] Break the Treaty ending WWI;
#2] Ignoring Hitlers’ building an Army (second to none);
#3] Hitler’s annexing lands not belonging to Germany, [another TREATY breech]; AND
# 4] Chamberlain’s foolish trust of Hitler!

England even went through a similar “free speech” squelching period, (which Churchill refused to submit to)…AND! ULTIMATELY he was, (for the duration of the conflict), proven correct…JUST AS PAMELA WILL BE ALSO!

BUT! This time around, (due to our unrepentant sins of (BOTH Government AND populace), we won’t win this next conflict, AND! It WILL be HERE AT HOME, (as it was in Jeremiah’s, Ezekiel’s & Daniel’s day);…NOT across the Atlantic! Because? Because Yahwey’s people cannot “turn away their faces from Yahwey” (our LORD), NOR “slaughter millions of innocents”, (HERE, as WELL as abroad); and escape our judgement!

CIVIL WAR is not ONLY likely….It IS undeniably necessary, in order to PURGE OFF the filth off our garments! (Matt. 22: 2 – 14; & Revelation 3:4; & 16:15!)…and prepare us for a NEW LIFE, NEW WORLD, NEW CALLING, & NEW Yeru-salem; & a NEW HEAVEN & EARTH! (Rev. 21 thru 22), AND [Gal.6:7]!

Jack Holan
Jack Holan
6 years ago

Excellent points and inaction is action usually of the worst kind by default. I agree it just grows worse every day and the Politicians and other leaders only compound the severity of errors.

Sage Nighthawk
Sage Nighthawk
6 years ago

HISTORY WILL REPEAT ITSELF IF WE DON’T LEARN FOR IT! THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MINUTE ALL OF YOU PATRIOTIC AMERICANS!

b jaeger
b jaeger
6 years ago

Bravo pamela!

Jack Holan
Jack Holan
6 years ago
Reply to  b jaeger

She is a blessing of grit and courage for all of us!

Jack Holan
Jack Holan
6 years ago

Pamela, the impetus for the end of Free Speech has and continues to be the Islamic/Leftist Axis. They know through their scare tactics they will prevail in spewing their Hate Speech without hindrance. I believe it was Shurat HaDin that experimented on Facebook using two postings, One Anti-Semitic and the Second Anti-Muslim. Using equivalent language and context both postings were launched at the same time and identical complaints were were lodged against both using the same respective verbiage and timing. Only the Anti-Muslim postings were taken down. The experiment was repeated using cartoons with the same results. So if Facebook is a Bell Weather of Futuristic Political Ethnic and Religious Censorship, we may be headed back to the Colonial Period to recapture Our Rights. If Muslims, Politicians, University Leftist Professors believe the US Military will remain quiet for a change such as this; you may be shocked!

As far as depicting Mohamed (Peace be upon him) is such a blasphemy It’s high time @PamelaGeller that the GSA is contacted to sandblast the Image of Mohamed off the wall of Supreme Court since we surely don’t want to have a blasphemous image that will be insulting to Muslims and the Islamic Religion.

UncleVladdi
UncleVladdi
6 years ago

The MUSLIMs are simply the shock-troops of the globalist oil-money BANKSTERS who want to destroy ALL sovereign nations so they can more easily run the world! http://unclevladdi.blogspot.ca/2017/06/random-leftist-violence-agenda21.html

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  UncleVladdi

How do you figure muslum petrocracies, which pull in, collectively, trillions of dollars a year in oil revenue are beholden to anyone? They buy the banks not vice-versa.

UncleVladdi
UncleVladdi
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

It isn’t trillions, and the banksters still have way more money because in some cases like with the US Federal reserve, they simply print it. The banksters have been enjoying ten times their actual reserves with “fractional” ones for hundreds of years, so their fake “worth” is literally countless and limitless. Arabs, on the other hand, have been scared of charging interest for over 1,400 years, and simply don’t understand economics – period. Everything about sharia “law” is designed to ignore value-added labor, just for instance.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  UncleVladdi

GDP’s of muslum countries (from http://www.photius.com/rankings/2017/economy/gdp_purchasing_power_parity_2017_0.html):

Saudi Arabia 1.7 trillion
UAE 667 billion
Iran 1.4 trillion
Kuwait 301 billion
Indonesia 3 trillion
Turkey 1.6 trillion
Pakistan ~1 trillion

Collectively that’s trillions. Furthermore, inislamic states the GDP isn’t in any way distributed equally to the people or the producers of said wealth.

UncleVladdi
UncleVladdi
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

Hm that only adds up to almost 10 Trillion.

Compare to American GDP: 17.95 trillion USD (2015)

So, NO – the oil-states don’t own the banks at all.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  UncleVladdi

What are the assets of any particular bank?
BofA: ~2.25 trillion
Chase Manhattan: ~2.5 trillion

The wealth of muslum nations is controlled by a very small minority (royal families mostly). The House of Saud could easily pull strings w/any of the banks I’ve just mentioned, by depositing or threatening to withdraw hundreds of millions of dollars.

UncleVladdi
UncleVladdi
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

Who says the Saudis don’t keep their money in their OWN banks?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

What kind of stupid question is that? Have they no concept of what is going on in the lame stream and social media?

Craig
Craig
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

They must have missed all those riots, car burnings and attacks by the left to any who dare speak anything the communist democrats do not like.

kikorikid
kikorikid
6 years ago
Reply to  Craig

The group within the Progressive mileau(sp)
that is leading the Left is the Revolutionary Communist Party.
These are the same cherubs that murdered about 25 million
during their “Cultural Revolution”, in China, 1968.
They, and the Left generally, are pushing for a similar
event in the USA. They are comically delusional.
Myself, among many, many millions of Veterans
will will be eager to shoot them. It won’t help those
murdered in the beginning by the Left but the Leftist
survivors will be doing serious evaluation of their
Utopian plan.

kikorikid
kikorikid
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

You sound like a Muslim Supremacist,always saying people
around them are stupid. Progressives do it as well.
So what are you?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  kikorikid

Uhhh, smarter than they are?

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
6 years ago

Not to me.

Timothy
Timothy
6 years ago

Yes I do believe War is coming to America. Free Speech is what it is and to deny one Free Speech is to deny life also. Its hard to say who’s going to win this War but, it’ll be ugly and horrible as all Wars are. America suffers from moral sickness, loss of values, its (governments) are thoroughly corrupt and they blatantly display that corruptness on a daily basis. There is no “politically correct ” Free Speech. Politically Correct speech inhibits Free Speech. Our founding fathers “warned” us about government becoming tyrannical and what we had to do to stop such government. There will be War in America not only against the governments but, against all everything else that’s all screwed up in America.

MSM are enemies of the USA!!!!
MSM are enemies of the USA!!!!
6 years ago
Reply to  Timothy

Our government is screwed up for sure, but I think the mainstream media is equally or more screwed up. Something needs to be done to jerk them back into reality.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

Again, those in politics and the media who see fit to muzzle Pamela’s First Amendment rights of freedom of expression need to be reminded that the constitutional liberties that allow her to do so are the very same liberties that allow political discourse and the media to even exist in the first place.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago

There must be NO restrictions against free speech in any modern democracy. Doing so will inevitably create a very slippery slope.

M.D. Roud
M.D. Roud
6 years ago

What is coming will be over quickly.

ninetyninepct
ninetyninepct
6 years ago

The Koran meets every definition of hate literature, violating Sections 318 and 319 of the Criminal Code of Canada yet the so called Justice Minister, Judy Wilson-Raybould, does nothing. She has failed to honor her Oath of Office and should be replaced. It would seem that she supports the violence of Islam and protects it.

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s;vbkr0boc,klos;
6 years ago

THEY think they are the ‘nice’ people. So did the collaborationists under Petain who turned in resistance fighters and Jews. When I see those damned ‘COEXIST’ bumper stickers I don’t cut them any slack anymore. Because, as Pamela found out long ago, these ‘nice’ people will stomp us under their jackboots.

Edward Cline
Edward Cline
6 years ago

I read all of the other essays, and yours was the best, Pam.

Pamela Geller is our hero!
Pamela Geller is our hero!
6 years ago
Reply to  Edward Cline

I did not read any of the other essays but I can’t imagine one any better than Pamela’s. It hit the nail on the head. Very proud to be a fan of Pamela Geller – a brave patriot who loves America and is risking her life every day to fight for us.
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That we have to witness the un-American BS that goes on in this country today is beyond my imagination. Then we see the rise of Donald Trump and his many defeats of the enemy:
1) Defeated 16 other R candidates.
2) Defeated Hitlery Rotten Crotch despite her cheating by getting debate questions in advance, having the entire MSM on her side, illegal acts by Loretta Wench, Obama, Comey, and others.
3) Defeated Jill Beer Stein in the recounts.
4) Defeated the Trump haters in the electoral college count.
5) Defeated the Trump haters again in the Senate confirmation vote.
6) Defeated the Trump haters again when he was sworn in at the inauguration.
7) Defeated Hollywood at the Grammy’s when Joy Villa wore the MAGA Trump dress.
8) Defeated the Trump haters again when his friend Tom Brady won the Superbowl.
9) Defeated the Trump haters again by getting Gorsuch sworn in on the Supreme Court.
10) Defeated the Trump haters again when he told the IRS to back off on enforcement of the ACA individual mandate penalty.
11) Defeated the Trump haters again when he backed out of the Paris agreement.
12) Defeated the Trump haters many times when he repealed many idiotic EOs put in place by Obama including the one allowing boys to shower with girls.
13) Is defeating the Trump haters every day as they investigate every move he has ever made and come up with ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
Trump may be some kind of Biblical sign or he may have been sent to save the USA by Gawd Almighty. I pray that’s what it is. It’s been AMAZING!!!!!

scheradoD
scherado
6 years ago

…his many defeats of the enemy:
1) Defeated 16 other R candidates.

How does this find it’s way into a list of enemies defeated?

The only good thing about the victory of candidate Trump is that Her Thighness was defeated. If President Trump allows himself to be impeached after the 2018 elections, then ….

Know your enemies
Know your enemies
6 years ago
Reply to  scherado

Trump was the only one with the who understood the Muztard problem. The rest of them, except for perhaps Herman Cain, had no clue, thus, they are on the side of the Muztards and that makes them our enemy.

scheradoD
scherado
6 years ago

Trump was the only one with the who understood the Muztard problem. The rest of them, except for perhaps Herman Cain, had no clue, thus, they are on the side of the Muztards and that makes them our enemy.

I think Ted Cruz understood.

Know your enemies
Know your enemies
6 years ago
Reply to  scherado

then….most likely Civil War.

Steve
Steve
6 years ago

Yes freedom of speech is alive and well in the United States if you are in with the right people and groups.

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago

Thanks Pamela!!!

Alleged Comment
Alleged Comment
6 years ago

FREE speech cannot be under threat because it is written in the Constitution. We are RULED by that and nothing other.

IF they do away with it then you can do away with them. That is, it can be ignored very legally. And if they insist on using FORCE on you then invoke the 2nd Amendment and call the Militia of the Several States and remove the traitors by force or setup a replacement government if this one proves unsatisfactory.

This POWER lies among the people. Not with anybody up there. They must be impeached, expelled, kindly ask to step down or HANGED!

Poppey
Poppey
6 years ago

Well written Pamela, you have encapsulated clearly both the burdens you and others labour under and the same issues we face in Britain and all over the free West.

Those who constantly snipe at others in this fight need to read and remember what you wrote for it applies to us all.

Philosophy
Philosophy
6 years ago

Let us define ‘Free Speech’ in philosophical terms.

Free Speech is freedom for ‘Knowledge’, it is man’s fundamental right to purse knowledge.

Religion—No matter which? Islam is particular religion, that is against knowledge, then Nation must not allow any religious freedom, as both—Religion and Freedom—cannot co-exists.

This is simple and uncomplicated fact. Freedom must not be struggle in Civilized Nation. But Religion must not get its space. When religion begin to speak then there will be no speech for knowledge.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Philosophy

Then move to North Korea and enjoy your atheist paradise.

Philosophy
Philosophy
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

You know nothing about political science, as well as about Islam…..the enemy of Science.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Philosophy

Why aren’t you moving to North Korea hypocrite? If you believe in atheism why aren’t you living in an atheist state?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Philosophy

By what qualification do you state that he knows nothing about political science. Which is a form of superstition, formalized.

VLParker
VLParker
6 years ago
Reply to  Philosophy

I’m agnostic and I think your statement is utter nonsense.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Philosophy

What is “knowledge” while you are at it, what is “truth”? Philosophy as has developed over time, has given us what we have today. To define “philosophy” it is the cartoons on the back page of humanities newspaper.

Robert Ives
Robert Ives
6 years ago

Wow! That was spectacular and moving! Pamela, you are the definitive woman of the century.
God Bless You.

Wayne Ville ... a Deplorable
Wayne Ville ... a Deplorable
6 years ago

Pam your points are good and accurate, but I would say start at home. Look at how the Union of Reform Congregations has sided with the muslims. Pathetic.

tz1
tz1
6 years ago

Freedom of the press does not require me to buy you a press.
Nor does Free Speech require anyone to provide you with a venue.
The left uses speech effectively, but until they use force, I don’t see the problem. And you’ve been to court in the cases where it was uneven. Mostly you complain that you couldn’t force private places that didn’t want you to host you.
Pressed, it could become like sweet cakes where you are forced to cater gay weddings or Trans restrooms.
Is the Muslim five times daily call to prayer “free speech”? I can imagine it getting worse, not better.
The one case you didn’t mention which is a big violation is the Judge’s gag order in Idaho Falls.
You have public parks and places, the Internet, and the alt-media. Use what you have.

Mike Ramirez
Mike Ramirez
6 years ago

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Dan Knight
Dan Knight
6 years ago

Well said. An excellent comment arises from the correct viewpoint: “The real question isn’t whether free speech is under threat in the United States, but rather, whether it’s irretrievably lost.”
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Most of us have no ‘free speech’ – as any challenge to the Left-wing agenda will result in personal attacks, job loss, and other more serious persecution.

IF YOU HAVE NOT HAD COPS SHOW UP ON YOUR DOOR TO INVESTIGATE YOUR UNDERSHORTS

– FOR WHAT YOU HAVE SAID IN A POLITICAL FORUM
– YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO ACCUSE ‘RIGHT-WINGERS’ OF BEING IN YOUR BEDROOM
– AND YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT THE FANCY YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT

Speaking from personal experience: I have a very good idea of how little can be said.

And worse – when you’re a medium ugly, medium fat, medium short, white guy – anything you say just confirms the Leftist’s prejudices anyway.

kikorikid
kikorikid
6 years ago

Islam is a Totalitarian-Supremacist ideology which operates behind a veneer/facade
of religiosity. Islam does not come to integrate or assimilate. Islam comes ONLY
to: Conquer, Submit, Convert, or Kill.

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