Freedom of speech, vandalism and other pleasant thoughts

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Oleg Volk

Staff Alumnus
I just got this email froma friend:
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It turns out that your posters create quite a visceral reaction in some people. I have been displaying various printed copies of your posters on self defense since I found your website last spring. People have always commented on them, but never done anything to them. Now someone (or some people) are regularly tearing down the posters from my door, apparently because they disagree with us. They also don't seem to like George W. Bush for President.

I have documented each incidence of vandalism with the authorities, but I thought you might like to know that at least someone is thinking about what you have to say (even though they seem to dislike it a lot). By now, it has turned into a bizzare game of see who can put posters up or tear them down more quickly. The poster that set this off was the "KKK and
NAACP agree..." that I was showing.
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One of the lessons from this is to make more posters usable in B&W so that loss of a few won't cost so much.

The other lesson is that the enemy is starting to play hardball (though they have yet to go after the person posting these images). Maybe we can step up our efforts in the next two weeks.

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Oleg "peacemonger" Volk

http://www.a-human-right.com
http://www.olegvolk.net
 
Oleg, at least your friend wasn't jailed for posting something un-PC.

If you look at Ann Coulter's column at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/forum/drudge_frame.htm you'll see the following:

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>...Speech that is unpopular will constitute a criminal offense. This recently happened in Manistee, Mich., when a woman leaving a restaurant was overheard saying, "I wish these damn 'spics' would learn to speak English." (... I abhor what she said, but she has a right to say it.)

The woman was promptly charged with the misdemeanor offense of "insulting conduct" and sentenced to 45 days in jail, two years' probation and a $500 fine. The state judge explained the criminal nature of her speech thus: "You don't say words like this when someone is present ... unless you are either intending to hurt them or injure them." [/quote]

So it's not just the 2nd that's under attack from the left.
 
HankB;

You are, of course, aware of the "anti-crime" initiative in the UK recently that placed undercover officers in ethnic restaurants? The purpose being to eavesdrop on patrons' conversations and cite those who made ethnic slurs against the waitstaff for, well, "having a tacky sense of humor", I guess.

Orwell, wherever he wound up, must've chuckled and ordered a double...

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"..but never ever Fear. Fear is for the enemy. Fear and Bullets."
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Back in Russia, I was very fond of Jack London's short stories. In the US, I found that very few of them have been published since 1920.

Recently, I found his works at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writings/ and understood why he, Twain and Kipling aren't all that popular with the locals. The language has evolved a trifle since their days.

On the other hand, I still like London's writings for all that he was a Socialist. Pity his books have gone the way of Uncle Remus stories (which I liked as a kid). Didn't expect USA to follow USSR in exorcising the evil book spirits...
 
Have the guy whose posters were torn down install a camera and get a
person who does it. And then charge that person with vandalism and sue
them for a few NICE color prints. Here, if somebody did that to my
housedoor, I'd simply have my shepherd roam the house. Since it's
aquainted with all regulars (it usually gets fed with sweets! ;) ),
the people belonging to the house won't end up as dog food. And
they're mostly pro-gun (Tamils from Sri Lanka can't be anti-gun - they
rely on AKs to stay alive down there).
 
Tamara, I've heard of the undercover eavesdroppers you mention...and the RIP controversy...and equating the terms "British" and "English" with racism...and Jack Straw's pro-double-jeopardy positions...and cameras everywhere...and on and on.

Seems like the U.K. leaders see George Orwell's "1984" as a model, not a warning. :(
 
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