Preserve Free Speech!!!

 Between December 12 & 14, 2011, the OIC, Department of State and others met in Washington to find ways of implementing HRC Res. 16/18.  From the available evidence, they appear to have settled on a new enforcement model, linked to "consequences" .

    If this new model had been in place a year ago, Pastors Jones & Sapp would be sued for civil liability and persecuted for trying and burning a Qur'an , based on the assertion that Pakistani Muslims rioted, causing death and destruction, as a result of their book burning. 

    The fact that the riots resulted from inflammatory sermons at Jumah Salat probably would not have saved the Pastors from legal expenses and penalties.  The intention is to impose self censorship by implementing a heckler's veto. 

    If we expose Islam and they don't like it, Muslims can riot and blame us for their actions, and the government can impose fines, costs, and imprisonment.
Now is the time to stand up for the First Amendment's Free Speech clause by demanding that Congress block implementation of the Istanbul process. 

    I now therefore ask you to take the following actions:

1. Sign this on line petition:  http://www.petition2congress.com/5741/preserve-first-amendment-from-attack-by-oic/
2. Send emails to  your Representative & Senators as part of the petition process. 
3. Share the petition through Facebook, Twitter and other social media.
4. Exhort your friends & family to sign and share the petition. 

JCPA Dreaming

I usually confine the use of the ironic "yeah, right" to commentary on the foibles of Muslims. Not this time. I received an email appeal which I have reproduced below, unedited. Iran is about to join the nuclear club, probably within the next three years.

The theory is that we can slow Iran's nuclear development by reducing their income by reducing our reliance on imported oil. There is only one practical way to reduce that dependence on imports: by increasing domestic production & refining. That process has a long lead time, about ten years. In three years Iran has nukes; in ten we throttle their oil revenue. Yeah, right.

Obamination has cut off domestic offshore exploration and production. The next five year MMS plan got canceled. Get a clue already! It ain't gonna happen. If we had increased domestic exploration in 1995, we could be enjoying the benefits now. But Slick Willy vetoed it.

Ahmadinejad needs nukes. Give him a few. That will solve his problem and ours, immediately & permanently.

Iranian President Ahmadinejad addressed the United Nations on nuclear non-proliferation. How ironic is that?

Nobody is fooled by President Ahmadinejad's attendance. Iran's intentions are abundantly clear and his nuclear ambitions threaten his neighbors, Israel's existence, and our national security. Iran is closer than ever before to obtaining nuclear weapons. Are you doing all that you can to help prevent a nuclear Iran? Join us now!

You can play a key role in stopping Ahmadinejad and Iran by helping to reduce the United States' reliance on foreign oil.

Iran receives up to $100 million a day in oil revenues, which is an astonishing $1.8 trillion over the next forty years. That is $1.8 trillion that Iran can use to further their support of Hezbollah. $1.8 trillion that Iran can use in its pursuit of nuclear weapons. $1.8 trillion that Iran can use to threaten the region and meet its stated goal of eliminating Israel from the map.

It is an imperative that we act now! Join us in stopping Iran by shutting down the funding. Help us prevent Iran and other dangerous regimes from supporting terrorism and spreading the world's most deadly weapons. Sign and circulate our petition today.

Rabbi Steve Gutow
President, Jewish Council for Public Affairs

KSM Trial Petition

Human Events and Red State have created an on line petition demanding reversal of the decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and four other terrorists in New York City. They list seven relevant points bearing on the idiocy of the decision.

1. jurisprudence: bad precedent
2. risk of technical acquittal
3. role inversion, putting the U.S.A. on trial
4. reversion to 9/10 criminal offense paradigm
5. revelation of state secrets
6. excessive security expense
7. attractive target for renewed attack

Jed Babbin Editor of Human Events, has written an excellent editorial which clarifies the issues very forcefully. .A Facebook group has been created to support the petition.

If you understand and care about the consequences of applying the law enforcement paradigm to acts of war, then you will join with me and 20,297 others who have signed the on line petition demanding that the terrorists be tried by military tribunals far from our vulnerable cities.

Say NO! to Obama Don't Care

Grassfire has hand delivered 868,105 printed petitions against Obama Don't Care to Senate offices. They want to increase that number to 1 million by Christmas. With your help, they should be able to do it, and even surpass that objective. At one point, more than 2,400 people per hour were signing the petition.

You can do your part by clicking this link to sign the petition and following up by sending the link to everyone you can hope to influence.

If you do not want the government to force you to buy a policy of their choice, at a premium you can't afford, make doctors leave the profession, create shortages, rationing & long waiting lines, then speak up now, while prevention is possible.

If you want the government to decide who lives, who dies and when; what tests, drugs and treatments your family receives, then sit quietly by and do nothing. Your children and grand children will suffer the consequences and curse you for it.

Now is the time to click that link and sign the petition. After signing, go to http://www.congress.org/ , enter your Zip Code and click the Federal Officials link. Paste this code into your email.

HELL NO!!!

When your Representative or Senator clicks that link, it will display a brief statement of objections to Obama Don't Care & Cap & Tax. followed by a big, bold, bright execration that will leave no doubt about where you stand.

For best results, copy this blog post and paste it into an email to everyone you can hope to influence. Urge them to sign the petition, send emails to their Senators, and forward the email.

Act now, while the disaster can still be prevented. Once it sets in, reversal will be impossible.

Defamation of Religions: World Opoinion Survey

World Public Opinion reported the results of an international survey of opinion on defamation of religions taken between April 25 and July 9, '09. As I would expect, support for free expression is greatest in western democracies and support for censorship is greatest in Islamic nations.

A five page pdf file revealing the survey's methodology has one surprise: the U.S.A. was surveyed on line.

In the United States, the poll was an online survey drawn from a nationally representative sample of the Knowledge Networks online panel. This panel is probabilistically-based, selected from the population of US telephone households and subsequently provided with an Internet connection if needed.

Results:

img: chart of results


The Methodology Report reveals that Hong Kong & Taiwan results were excluded from the averages, but does not explain the exclusions. There is a trend toward heavy coverage of urban areas, which could result in a more liberal result.

Several nations stood out from the crowd with high levels of indecision/non-response.

Russia	26
Ukraine	30
Iraq	17
Indonesia	20

How would they have responded in an anonymous, non-confrontational setting? What effect, if any, will this report of majority support for free expression have on the General Assembly vote on the Defamation of Religions resolution?

If you are on the side of freedom of expression, these on line petitions need your support Sign them and urge everyone you can hope to influence to sign them.

• Free To Believe
• ACLJ
  

To join a counter attack in the war of ideas, sign and promote the International Qur'an Petition.

Nobel Peace Prize Denigrated by Obama's Award

online petition

objection against the absurd decision to award B. Obama Nobel Peace Prize

Target:

Nobel Peace Prize Committee

Sponsored by:

nobelpeace.eu

Lets express our objection against the absurd decision to award B. Obama Nobel Peace Prize. His activity had not yet abounded the unusual achievements. And although it can not be denied his potential, a decision the Nobel Committee is definitely premature, and in addition the political. Unfortunately, such a choice Stockholm committee is directed at existing laureates this prestigious Prize, who have spent years devoted themselves to working hard and consistently for their ideals.

Hat tip: jillosophy.blogspot.com

Imperfect as it is, the petition is far superior to anything I could produce in any language other than English, and it just scratches the surface of my sentiments. I endorsed it without hesitation and hope that you will, too. There are more than 1600 signatures and I hope it will garner one thousand times that number.

Awarding the peace prize to a terrorist appeasing traitor denigrates the prize as much as honoring Arafat & Carter did.