Free speech, Garland Tx.

[ConstitutionCowboy]

Beliefs are personal. I don't care what you say about my faith. Nothing you say or do will alter it. Nothing you say or do in reference to my faith insults me. I'm not the one you will have to answer to.

Even with the foregoing notwithstanding, I defend anyone's freedom of speech regardless of how it may rub me the wrong way.

I think what Geller did was a good thing, long overdue, and should be repeated until all of those obedient Muslims flush themselves out. We don't live by the rule of intimidation in this country. We live by the rule of law, the freedoms we have, and the rights we exercise.

While carving someone's head off makes a statement, I can't call that anything but murder because it infringes upon someone else's right to life.

While no one has a right to free speech(slander, libel, threats, and perjury all come with consequences), the freedom of speech is yours to use as you please.

Woody

 

[Defnestor]

Yes Geller has the right to hold a contest for Mohammad-esque art. I disapprove, because while offending the 1.5 Billion moslem extremists, she also offended all half-dozen moderates. Not cool.

 

[SMS]

She absolutely has the right to organize any otherwise legal event she wants…but I think that if the event she organizes creates an unusual risk to public safety, she should be on the hook for providing/funding any and all security (same goes for any other event too).

I'm leaning towards, if you want to intentionally inflame those who may be predisposed to commit acts of violence against you and your fellow attendees, fine. Strap on a gun and guard the door yourself or pay for private security. My tax dollars shouldn't pay for a city cop to stand guard.

 

[donner]

Perhaps my biggest complaint is that this contest, while totally legal etc, really only setup to put people in harms way. It'd be one thing for her to stand outside and guard the doors. But that job generally falls to someone who is just working for a living (be it security guard, door man, cop, whatever).

I know she has the right to do these things, but i'm troubled by who is put in harms way because it probably isn't her.

 

[Sanford]

I find I rather agree with Geller's response to Williams criticisms last night in which she told him "I’m fighting a war for free speech, and you are imposing Sharia." Sure, it's a small thing - but small things grow and that's precisely how Sharia will become law in this country if allowed to continue unchallenged by the intelligentsia.

 

[Shadowrider]

Pretty pertinent....

Missing the Point - Charlie's Soapbox 5/8/15

A group calling themselves American Freedom Defense Initiative recently held a cartoon drawing competition in Garland, Texas offering a ten thousand dollar prize for the winning cartoon of Mohammed and were attacked by two Muslim extremists which ISIS declared were their soldiers defending the image of their prophet.

We all know that a guard was injured and both terrorists were killed, but the ramifications of this incident should - and hopefully will - open the eyes of the people in America who can't accept the fact that there are radical Muslims in this country who are willing to die in the Islamic cause, taking as many Americans with them as they can.

I have heard widespread criticism of this group by those who say they knew the event they were holding was likely to provoke an attack.

I do not commend nor condemn them but do feel that putting the focus on them and not on the danger of Islamist terror on the streets of America causes us to miss the point.

Is America to walk on egg shells in practicing our constitutional rights from now on, observing strict rules of political correctness in a fruitless effort to placate the sensibilities of people who hack the heads off Christians and kidnap children for sex slaves?

No other group in the history of America has been granted immunity from criticism or even ridicule for that matter, and one has to look no farther than the TV shows and art exhibits to find mocking of God and belittling of those who follow Him.

Yet, if followers of Christ went and shot up Bill Maher’s show or bombed the exhibition of a photo of a crucifix in a jar of the artist’s urine, I wonder if the critics would be so quick to condemn TV and museums for being the catalyst.

The point being that these radicals don't have to be provoked by some special event or what they perceive as being an insult to their faith to kill innocent American citizens.

People, let's face some cold, hard facts here. Radical Islam hates anybody who disagrees with them and their ultimate goal is to destroy every human who breathes, who will not convert to Islam and it doesn't take a derogatory cartoon or a negative word about their faith to provoke them.

They live in a perpetual state of provocation and it's not incident but opportunity that sets them off and the more solace they can get from the "kill the messenger" crowd and a president who can't even bring himself to call them radical Islamic terrorists the bolder they will become and if every federal agency, local law enforcement, intelligence agency and every other entity charged with protecting America is not focused and fine tuned to root out and destroy the terrorist networks in America, we are in for a mass blood letting on the streets of our nation.

During World War II, a Japanese admiral made the statement that it would be foolish to mount a ground attack on the American mainland because there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass and that could still prove to be America's best defense.

ISIS claims to have sleeper cells in fifteen states, a statement that may or may not be true, but for security purposes we'd best take them at their word and dig deep and punish severely, a move that will be soundly denounced by the Muslim community, but one that, if they are sincere about being good Americans, they should welcome, to rid them of the monsters who give all Islam a bad name.

And after all, more Muslims die at the hands of these fanatics than any other people.

The art exhibit and contest held in Garland, Texas at the Curtis Culwell Center will pass into distant memory in a few weeks, but the clear and present danger that it brought to the attention of America hopefully will not.

America needs a leader who is a staunch defender of all our constitutional rights, 2nd amendment notwithstanding, a leader who will call our enemy by it's proper name and hunt them down anywhere in the world when they are a threat to America, a leader with guts, gonads and the nerve to tell America the whole truth.

Lock and load America, trouble is on the way.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

 

[MadDogs]

... or pay for private security. My tax dollars shouldn't pay for a city cop to stand guard.

I agree. But I believe (but could be wrong) that due to the intolerance that Islam has towards infidels that happen to draw cartoons, Geller's group paid the city of Garland $10,000 for security to compliment what Geller already has.

I would bet that the folks at Charlie Hebdo wish they had that Texas traffic cop working security for their building.

 

[Lurker66]

Yep, she has the right. Next time it might be a McVeighesq type bomb, instead of a couple of wannabes. Poke the bear or mess with the horns, ya get what ya deserve. Keep that dumb cartoon mooslim hate BS out of Pink.

 

[MadDogs]

Pretty pertinent....

Agreed.

 

[MadDogs]

Yep, she has the right. Next time it might be a McVeighesq type bomb, instead of a couple of wannabes. Poke the bear or mess with the horns, ya get what ya deserve. Keep that dumb cartoon mooslim hate BS out of Pink.

Muslims have been on a jihad bender for almost 1,400 years. There will be a next time whether or not there was a cartoon contest.

Capitulating on our rights and giving in to intolerance has never played well on the world stage.



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