Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 05/16/2010 6:49:09 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron
MONDAY: President will sign 'Freedom of Press Act' in Oval Office. The signing will be pooled press... Developing...
I don't know what to make of this except it stinks to high heaven.
Anyone have any insight?
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Agreed that it stinks to high heaven.
Is this where “bloggers” are not protected as journalists?
Huh? Since everything Bambi says means exactly its opposite, I’d say that Monday is the end of the First Amendment.
The title of the act is probably exactly the opposite content of the plain reading of its title.
Unless of course, as I suspect, the Freedom of Press Act deliniates exactly what Freedoms the Press should expect to be curtailed.
Freedom for “the” government to PRESS their boot on the neck of others?????
I think ‘no details’ spells it out.
This will a carefully controlled obamma press event.
As of Monday, I’d say freedom of the press will be a thing of the past.
Barf alert!!!
Another 0rwellian name from the Democrats.
I believe it is a “bailout” (buyout) of the news media.
The formerly free press will now be a government run propaganda machine.
Damn, this is a night mare turning into realilty.
I hope my other ones don’t come true, I’m sure we all have the same ones.
Just damn.
From JTA:
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — President Obama will sign the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act into law, joined by six members and three generations of the slain journalist’s family.
The act, named in honor of the Wall Street Journal reporter kidnapped and decapitated by Islamic extremists in Pakistan in 2002, expands the examination of press freedom worldwide in the U.S. State Department’s annual human rights report. It will be signed into law Monday morning.
“Violators of press freedom throughout the world now know that they will be closely watched,” Pearl’s father, Judea, said before leaving Los Angeles for Washington. “This is something our son Danny fought for all his life.”
Also participating in the White House ceremony will be Pearl’s widow, Mariane, and their son, Adam Daniel, who will mark his eighth birthday on May 28; his mother, Ruth; and sisters Michelle and Tamara.
Adam was born three months after the killing of his father, while the reporter was pursuing an investigative story on the al-Qaida financial network.
The new law mandates the State Department to identify countries in which there are violations of press freedom; determine whether the government authorities of those countries participate in, facilitate or condone the violations; and report the actions these governments have taken to preserve the safety and independence of the media and ensure the prosecution of those who attack or murder journalists.
Link to another thread, with a link to the text of the bill. Also on JPost
“Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act to be law (Obama to sign—also on Drudge)”
JTA ^ | 16 May 2010 | Unknown
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2514822/posts
Since we haven’t heard a damned thing about this, may we assume that it’s another Obama Executive Order?
“Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kind of cool!”
What do you mean?
Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act to be law
"...The act...expands the examination of press freedom worldwide in the U.S. State Department’s annual human rights report. It will be signed into law Monday morning."
Just as we suspected.
What ever moron.
Information is distracting, you know (or so the leader says)! Especially if it can lead you directly to all the Founders' words and ideas of liberty so carefully censored from the nation's textbooks.
Exposure to the ideas of 1776 and 1787 would be especially "distracting," because you might become less "dumbed down" and actually recognize tyranny when it is at your door.
Thanks for the additional info.
This guy think he’s dictator of the world now?
It’s worse than I thought, Lord have mercy.
Hmmm. Well, since this would include every country Obama loves, ranging from ME monarchies or dictatorships to African thugocracies to Latin American Bolivarian Paradises, I'm not sure exactly how it's going to apply to anybody.
And we will detect the difference -- how?
They've been playing the Monica position for so long they know nothing else...
Assume its BAD. Real BAD. We don’t need no stinking freaking “freedom of press act”’s. We have the CONSTITUTION.
WTH is your problem?
Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act to be law
May 16, 2010
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — President Obama will sign the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act into law, joined by six members and three generations of the slain journalist’s family.
...
“Violators of press freedom throughout the world now know that they will be closely watched,” Pearl’s father, Judea, said before leaving Los Angeles for Washington. “This is something our son Danny fought for all his life.”
...
The new law mandates the State Department to identify countries in which there are violations of press freedom; determine whether the government authorities of those countries participate in, facilitate or condone the violations; and report the actions these governments have taken to preserve the safety and independence of the media and ensure the prosecution of those who attack or murder journalists.
...
“In many parts of the world, the freedom of the press is the last – or even the only – safeguard against the complete erosion of all human rights,” Dodd said. “With this bill, we pay tribute to Daniel’s life and his work by shedding a bright light on this repression, and hope to prevent this sort of tragedy from ever happening again.”
http://jta.org/news/article/2010/05/16/2394822/daniel-pearl-freedom-of-the-press-act-to-become-law
Ding, give a pretzel with extree mustard to the cynical 'Merican in the back - then taze him, get his ID and insert an RFID chip.
I hope they make a good hive and produce maximum honey, there how is that.
I always do with this guy in charge.
What's up with the poster up thread calling me a moron?
Did I miss something?
Party on. However, the chip will need to be inserted in my dead body after the dude with the taser gets a taste of my blade.
Who knows maybe just a little hyper excuse the moron comment I’ve been here too long to give a, well you know the rest.
The difference is they will be like the Post Office, no longer having to worry about turning a profit.
So they will only need to serve 0bama’s interests, not the public’s.
Whatever, where do you get off name calling when someone asks you what you mean by your rather less then detailed post?
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
OK then.
Imagine whirled bees.
It’s the Daniel Pearl Act, but it doesn’t mention radical Islam. Another feel good bill that does nothing to address the root of the problem.
(That was a reference to the story about the 1000s of bees that swarmed 0bama & the White House today).
I want a commemorative photo myself. That would be worth cash money. Well, even though cash money isn’t what it was in 2007.
Good, let me know when you're adult enough to offer an apologie.
Until then you can KMA
dork.
Redefining interpretation of the 1st Amendment?
In other words, it's a useless piece of "feel good" legislation -- designed solely for show.
Hugo and Mahmoud, et al, I'm sure, are enjoying a good laugh over this preening and posturing.
your ass
Beats the heck outta me.
...is quite nice thanks for asking.
I agree that the legislation text appears to be inane, feel good stuff, but it does make you wonder about implications.
It’s like the WH is a hive now, what with its own press production & video (with help from the Oprah). It’s like they’re trying to redefine what freedom is and what it means—akin to ‘transparency.’
Journalists should not be protected as journalists. The whole notion is another made up "right" of the left. Yes, journalists and anybody has the right to publish anything political that they want. But they certainly don't have any superior rights than mine because they work for the NY Times. Specifically, they do not have any right to silence in any legal proceeding other than those that we all are supposed to have.
ML/NJ
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