Thoughts 24 Dec 2006 08:16 am
Newt
Dear old Newt is starting to show his age, at an event honoring free speech, he insisted that we must limit free speech to protect us from terrorists.
This goose stepping, illegitimate son of Der Fuehrer, would take away our freedom in order to protect our freedom.
I’m not certain if he’s gone senile, or if his true colors are showing.
Gingrich, speaking at a Manchester awards banquet, said a “different set of rules” may be needed to reduce terrorists’ ability to use the Internet and free speech to recruit and get out their message.
“We need to get ahead of the curve before we actually lose a city, which I think could happen in the next decade,” said Gingrich, a Republican who helped engineer the GOP’s takeover of Congress in 1994.
Gingrich cited last month’s ejection of six Muslim scholars from a plane in Minneapolis for suspicious behavior, which included reports they prayed before the flight and had sat in the same seats as the Sept. 11 hijackers.
“Those six people should have been arrested and prosecuted for pretending to be terrorists,” Gingrich said. “And the crew of the U.S. airplane should have been invited to the White House and congratulated for being correct in the protection of citizens.”
Assuming for the moment that the seating was planned, so Effen’ what.
Are political statements to be made illegal?
Is praying only acceptable, if you are an evangelical, and then only if you use a state approved bible?
Muslims pray often, and considering what happens if one of those planes has an engine failure and falls out of the sky, I don’t think that I would object to anyone praying, to any god they thought would listen.
Old men start wars and young men fight them.
People who know that the law will never be applied to them, write the laws.
Sedition is defined as:
Conduct which is directed against a government and which tends toward insurrection but does not amount to treason.
The distinction between sedition and treason consists in this, that though its ultimate object is a violation of the public peace, or at least such a course of measures as evidently engenders it, yet it does not aim at direct and open violence against the laws, or the subversion of the Constitution.
In other words, protests or possibly even a letter writing campaign, to stop these rather, annoyingly stupid people, from taking away any more of our rights could be considered sedition, if anyone suggested, as did Thomas Jefferson, that the entire system needed to be scrapped and rebuilt.
Resistance is futile……