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Is freedom of speech being challenged by the Obama administration? If coming down hard on the guy who made the Muhammad video and accusing that video of being the catalyst that caused the attack in Benghazi, then yes, Obama is challenging our First Amendment right to freedom of speech. The fact is, Obama and the Situation Room knew about the attack in real time, and were totally clear about it within an hour as emails have shown us, but his administration confabulated a false claim and a man is in prison because of it, and four Americans are dead because of an order to "stand down."
But even more frightening is what Hillary Clinton said to Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods, one of the slain SEALs. She told him not to worry, the administration plans to fully prosecute the man who made the video about the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, which they claimed incited the riots that were actually responsible for killing his son. Of course, Clinton didn't use those words, but that's basically what the message was--as if the video had anything to do with the terrorist assaults in the first place.
The story told by Federal authoirities was that the demonstration was an unplanned spontaneous response to that "disgusting" video, a movie trailer made by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a 55 year old Coptic Christian in southern California. I have viewed this video, Innocence of Muslims, and concur that it's not very good, but it's an expression of Nakoula's freedom of speech. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to say things that people want to hear, but it includes the freedom to say things that people don't like and don't want to hear.
In my next blog, I plan to discuss our First Amendment right in more detail. I believe this issue is one of the most important ones that we face for the immediate future, particularly if Obama is re-elected.
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But even more frightening is what Hillary Clinton said to Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods, one of the slain SEALs. She told him not to worry, the administration plans to fully prosecute the man who made the video about the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, which they claimed incited the riots that were actually responsible for killing his son. Of course, Clinton didn't use those words, but that's basically what the message was--as if the video had anything to do with the terrorist assaults in the first place.
The story told by Federal authoirities was that the demonstration was an unplanned spontaneous response to that "disgusting" video, a movie trailer made by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a 55 year old Coptic Christian in southern California. I have viewed this video, Innocence of Muslims, and concur that it's not very good, but it's an expression of Nakoula's freedom of speech. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to say things that people want to hear, but it includes the freedom to say things that people don't like and don't want to hear.
In my next blog, I plan to discuss our First Amendment right in more detail. I believe this issue is one of the most important ones that we face for the immediate future, particularly if Obama is re-elected.
My latest novel, Jihad
Joe, is about Islamic
terrorism and suspense. In it I challenge the precepts of the religion
through my protagonist, Zed Nill, a journalist, captured by terrorists and who
is destined to be killed if the American President refuses to release three
Gitmo prisoners. Of course, American policy demands we never give in to
terrorists, and for Zed, the clock is ticking.
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