Posted on 10/20/2004 4:25:19 AM PDT by Entrepreneur
"Stolen Honor" Showing Cancelled Under Threat of Litigation Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Jim:
I don't know if you've heard this yet. "Stolen Honor" was to have its premier in a theatre in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia, tomorrow night. Former Swiftees and POWs were to be given the red carpet treatment, the whole nine yards. It was sponsored by WPHT 1210 The Big Talker in Philadelphia. They just announced--within the hour--that the premier here is cancelled because the theatre was threatened with litigation. Is this what free speech will look like under a Kerry adminstration if he gets elected?
Jerry Komar Collingswoood, New Jersey
If this were Moore's F911, it would sure be shown.
We have truely entered the land of Nazi Germany - banned news, book burning, etc. etc. I say to Mr. Kerry - WHAT ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF???
It's what it looks like now. If John F'em Ke(rr)y or another DemonRAT ever gets elected President, you'll see far, far worse.
F911 *is* being shown every day.
I'm sure at least one of your ping lists would be appropriate for this film burning.
Lurch is trying so desperately to bury his past that he doesn't see the huge hole he's digging for himself.
"Jenkintown, Pennsylvania....the premier here is cancelled because the theatre was threatened with litigation. Is this what free speech will look like under a Kerry adminstration if he gets elected?"
Another example of 'Free Speech, as long as I approve of what you're saying.'
Sorry folks because I know the truth hurts, but let's all take a moment to thank George W. Bush for signing the unconstitutional Campaign Finance Reform law.
Didn't OnDemand drop Farenheit 911 from their pay-per-view selections out of fear of legal action and bad publicity?
Who threatened suit?
I had not heard about the suit.
Free Speech is when the government does not permit speech to take place.
If a political party, a non-elected entity, sues a broadcast network over a particular broadcast, is that a violation by government?
This one is close to the line. It's not like the Dixie Chicks claiming that their fans have to swallow whatever they say.
It is a political party, which IS a protected entity in our law.
The other question is what they were sued for????
Has the theatre owner contacted the ACLU or other organizations?
"Chill Wind"
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The only thing they don't want suppressed is the right to have sex with goats.
Sinclair Broadcasting never said they were going to run the complete movie. Now what they are saying is that they will take out excerpts and play those parts. I would think they are goin to show the BEST parts.
There is a other post concerning this.
Hate crime laws were utilized in the USSR and Nazi Germany, and undoubtedly in communist Cuba, Red China, and communist N. Korea to suppress/criminalize dissent {politically incorrect speech, thoughts, actions} against prevailing State doctrine/ideology.
Socialist authoritarians and useful idiots like Orrin Hatch have worked to have them legislated here. So the legislative framework is already in place that will allow the Socialists to define movies like 'Stolen Honor' as divisive hate speech should comrade sKerry be elected.
Imo, Rush Limbaugh
is being persecuted and harrassed Not for using/possesing pain meds, as his Leftist persecutors claim, but because of his politics and because he's an icon of the Right.
In other words, they're trying to find him guilty of 'political crimes."
Even ED agreed it should be shown. She even interrupted/corrected the dim talking head several times.
I say we should paint swastikas on every Kerry Edwards sign we see.
Yep, the brownshirts are at it again. This is just a small look at what life will be under a Kerry regime. God help us if Kerry gets elected.
The ACLU was probably behind the threat. If not directly named, they are there somewhere in the background. The ACLU fights for rights only for the Lunatic Left.
Don't know if it is the same lawsuit, but Kenneth J.Campbell, a professor at the University of Delaware, who lives in Philadelphia, has filed a lawsuit against Carlton Sherwood and Red,White and Blue Productions.
Campbell is shown in Stolen Honor talking to Scott(The Assassin)Camil. Campbell also appeared on Hardball on September 9,2004, stating that "There was only one person in the Vietnam Vets Against the War that was uncovered as having been a sergeant when he said he was a captain.(Al Hubbard-Co-Founder)
Campbell was released from active duty (Marines) on February 10,1970 and was a member of the Inactive Reserves until 1973. However, Campbell took a trip to Europe in 1971 where he met wih a number of COMMUNIST organizations, including the Vietnamese. His partial diary from that trip reads like a mini Woodstock. You can see this diary at....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1248687/posts?q=1&&page=101
I don't know. This is an ACLU tactic being used.....Instead of having to take on the big players, they go after the smaller and weaker.
I did read on another thread that the ticket holders were given copies of the film.
This movie IS going to be shown. Watch the trailer for the movie & get theater schedules.
http://www.celcius4111.com/
Bush should use snippets from it in his TV ads, they can't stop that! Someone know how to email Rove?
Showing in a theatre is not the public airwaves. What would be the claim of the suit?
Note that President Bush has made no attempt to prevent the showing of Fahrenheit 911 or anything else or to silence even his most outrageous critics. He understands the value of freedom of speech.
Expect the worst if the Democrats should succeed in siezing power.
If the democrats ever get complete control it will take an act of 1776 proportions to restore America to the freedom she was created to enjoy...
The shouter and the VietNam vet......
The woman shouter was a caller on Steve Malzberg's show this morning. She said that she was in a shouting confontration with a 'VietNam Vet for Kerry', whom she accused of being a traitor. I heard Doocy label them backwards this morning, and felt sorry for the woman.
All I can say is 'You go Girl!'.
In actuality xzins, yes it is. The courts are an arm of the government and if a person can use an arm of the government to squelch free speech then the constitution is violated. Free speech is abridged when there is a THREAT of a lawsuit. It is the courts themselves that communicate and administer that threat on behalf of the person making it. The fact that such a threat is possible is evidence that there are laws on the books that may be in violation of the constiution, otherwise there would be no legitimate threat.
The democrats have become what they profess to hate. THEY are the brownshirts.
Lock and load. Series.
DO NOT PANIC FREEPERS. UNITE UNITE UNITE.
STOLEN HONOR WILL BE SHOWN. THIS IS JUST MORE FIRE FOR PEOPLE TO WATCH. BE GLAD ABOUT THE CONTROVERSY. IT FLAMES THE FIRE.
WITH THE POWER OF THE INTERNET AND DOWNLOAD CAPABILITY.
WE HAVE THE POWER TO HAVE STOLEN HONOR SHOWN EVERYWHERE.
SEND IT TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW. DOWNLOAD NOW AND UNITE.
DO NOT PANIC
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