Anti-Muslim leader calls for suspension of first amendment

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Pamela Geller, one of America’s most rabid Islamophobes and a woman who is scheduled to testify today to the Alaska House of Representatives, thinks people like her should be able to decide what news people like you get to see. And she doesn’t think you can handle news presented by Middle East-based Al Jazeera English.

Geller, writing for the right-wing Daily Caller website Saturday, offered her insight on the constitutional rights and privileges of foreign media in the U.S. market. “Al Jazeera is planning to expand into the United States, and the chattering classes are treating it as a simple free speech matter,” Geller wrote.

“Let’s not let the Islamic supremacists once again invoke the freedom of speech to kill our freedom of speech,” Geller continued. “The ruse of using freedom of speech to allow propaganda broadcasts over our airways is another stealth attack on the United States of America. The issue of the expansion of Al Jazeera into the United States can only be likened to an expansion of (Nazi propagandist Joseph) Goebbels’s media network into the U.S. at the height of World War II.”

To protect freedom of speech, in other words, Geller bizarrely suggests America should suppress certain speech and control the media. Because, after all, Al Jazeera, whose coverage of the recent uprisings in the Arab world was widely lauded because it was so much more comprehensive than that of other media, is just like the Nazis.

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/03/30/muslim-basher-pam-geller-fresh-from-call-for-censorship-to-testify-to-alaska-house-today/

And if you think she's talking only about Muslims, think again. She is also on the record saying that people "HAVE" to listen to Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, and more slam Fox News and that something should be done about it.

[Rabblevox]

1. I'm not a big fan of Islam (or any organized religion), but isn't that supposed to be the reason...

We HAVE a first amendment?

[sinkingfeeling]

2. We allow Fox to do propaganda broadasts over 'our airways'.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Only we can decide

Where and when freedom ends. Radical Islam, space aliens, can't "take" our freedom or way of life away. Right wingers want us to believe they can but they're the ones whom are actually trying tomake it happen IMHO.

[Xicano]

4. Another typical paranoid delusional reich-winger

These people really are paranoid aren't they? :eyes:


K&R

[ReggieVeggie]

5. only if we suspend the 2nd at the same time

hell, let's suspend the rest! Constitution schmonstitution!