“The fact is we are witnessing an all-out drive to impose thought control that seeks to ban the ability—the right—to think or speak for one’s self. Thinking is becoming a crime.”
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Right on cue -— announced today. Interfaith coalition petitioning FCC to go after Rush Limbaugh-—a man who unambiguously perceives and exposes the tyranny he is witnessing.
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USCCB Comm. Office Backs Bid to Clamp Down on Conservative Radio Hosts for “Hate Speech”
A petition to the Federal Communications Commissioner (FCC) to investigate popular conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh for purported “hate speech” has caused a stir among Catholic circles after it was revealed that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) communications office is backing the initiative.
One conservative commentator has even cited evidence that the religious coalition behind the petition, of which the USCCB communications office is a part, may be affiliated with the federal government’s recent campaign against conservative media.
“So We Might See,” a group billing itself as a national interfaith coalition against hate speech in media, is calling on supporters to sign a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski urging him to open a notice of inquiry into “hate speech” among the media establishment.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2371509/posts
And what is this Interfaith Coalition petition’s definition of Hate Speech?
Categories of hate speech:
* False Facts consist of incorrect, exaggerated, or de-contextualized facts.
* Flawed Argumentation is rooted in hidden assumptions, guilt by association, and appeal to fear.
* Divisive Language creates and/or encourages an “us vs. them” mentality. Hard times often incite blaming “others” as the source of trouble. Catholics, Jews, and African Americans have been routinely targets as scapegoats for those wishing to further their own agendas.
* Dehumanizing Metaphors evoke messages relating to warfare, heroism, disease, and biblical characters.
http://www.ucc.org/media-justice/mvf2009/learn-more.html
See the membership of this “interfaith” coalition need screen shots to post list):
Started yesterday:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2365423/posts?page=243#243
Other curiosities on Mercer Island – Velamoor not being a common name: A TRISHNA Velamoor also went to MIHS (younger sister?). And a SESH Velamoor (father?) hails from Hyderabad, India, lives on Mercer Island and works at Foundation for the Future as Trustee & Director of Programs.
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Democratic attorney Bob Bauer, who is married to White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, is the chief counsel for the group.
…Foundation for the Future, a 527 organized in July 2006, will continue to lead the analytical component of redistricting for the Democrats. The coalition, which includes the Association of Federal, State, County and Municipal Employees, the National Committee for an Effective Congress and other Democratic groups, seeks to provide Democratic caucuses in each state with data, mapmaking software and demographic projections.
http://www.futurefoundation.org/about/fff_trustees.htm
Sesh Velamoor, a native of Hyderabad, India, is the Director of Programs at the Foundation For the Future.
#245 Sesh Velamoor, Director of Programs, integrated the work of the Organizing Committee into the final seminar and symposium format.
Members of the Organizing Committee included: Clement Bezold, Institute for Alternative Futures; Joseph Coates, Consulting Futurist, Inc.; Brian Fagan, University of California, Santa Barbara; Barbara Marx Hubbard, Foundation for Conscious Evolution; Sohail Inayatullah, International Management Centres; Charles Johnston, Institute for Creative Development; Graham Molitor, Public Policy Forecasting, Inc.; Siro Polo Padolecchia, European Institute for Futures Studies; and Allen Tough, University of Toronto.
SESH VALAMOOR BARBARA MARX HOWARD ANITA DUNN SIDDARTH VELAMOOR
More important related info (and connections) to this referenced post:
Obama’s FCC, liberal churches, and the “media justice” mob
By Michelle Malkin • October 28, 2009 04:59 AM
My syndicated column today (reprinted below) probes the FCC/left-wing church alliance to silence conservative critics of illegal immigration through “hate speech” regulation. Tip of the iceberg.
Jeffrey Lord at the American Spectator first broke the story of how United Church of Christ officials met with kindred spirit/FCC Commissioner Michael Copps earlier this month before launching a nationwide campaign to pressure the FCC to crack down on cable TV and talk radio figures.
The motto of the “So We Might See” anti-”hate speech” campaign is: “Without media justice, there will be no social justice!” The same Marx-loving “social justice” crowd is behind the “media justice” mob — including George Soros’s Open Society Institute, Media Democracy Fund, and Media Matters; the Ford Foundation; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; etc., etc., etc.
Their goal: government redistribution of media wealth. As “The Media Justice Fund” put it: The movement “is grounded in the belief that social and economic justice will not be realized without the equitable redistribution and control of media and communication technologies.” And there’s that phrase “transformative change” again:
* Media change of all kinds must expose and directly confront the mechanics of structural racism and systemic oppression.
* Leaders from historically marginalized communities must be developed as effective media activists and strategic movement communicators.
* Media policy advocacy and strategic communications are more effective when clearly relevant to the primary justice issues of the movement for racial justice, economic and gender equity, and youth rights.
* Compelling communications and media activism campaigns must be both rooted in critical issues and coordinated across issue, sector, and region for national impact.
* When justice sectors strengthen communications strategies, center the use of culture as a communications tool, employ winning frames and messages, and strengthen their influence over media rules and rights, the possibilities for transformative change skyrocket.
“Transformative change” = a media landscape purged of the Right’s most powerful voices.
The White House communications shop gives two thumbs up, no doubt.
Malkin’s Jewish Review column in full here — a must read
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/28/obamas-fcc-liberal-churches-and-the-media-justice-mob/
Thread here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372999/posts
Thanks for your OUTSTANDING contributions to this thread, thouworm. BUMP-TO-THE-TOP!