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Feds suggest anti-Muslim speech can be punished
politico.com ^ | May 31, 2013 | Byron Tau

Posted on 06/01/2013 6:34:17 AM PDT by KeyLargo

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To: Venturer
Obama taps William C. Killian for U.S. attorney for Eastern District of Tennessee

By Michael Collins Posted May 21, 2010

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern Tennessee District, William Killian

41 posted on 06/01/2013 7:19:01 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: PLD
"It is too bad that so many are disillusioned with life and Christianity to accept Muslims as peaceful."

Members of a certain political party understand that Islam will give them sexual access to small boys and the ability to have child brides. THAT is the attraction to THEM!

42 posted on 06/01/2013 7:20:06 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: KeyLargo

But now comes the US Attorney for the Eastern district of Tennessee explicitly telling you that you may be imprisoned if a political appointee decides your political speech has crossed a line.
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Somewhat similiar to the concept of death panels wherein “special” appointees (political, of course) get to decide the fate of others. Dems hate personal choice, freedom and the concept of responsibility.


43 posted on 06/01/2013 7:20:53 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: KeyLargo

I’m sure they will also prosecute the hate speech of LaRaza and the New Black Panthers...NOT!

I prefer to be raptured before patriots start having to defend freedom with the 3rd box, but it is not my call.

The soap box and ballot box have failed egregiously.


44 posted on 06/01/2013 7:20:55 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was, as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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To: KeyLargo

Learn the difference between a
U.S. District court and a
http://www.supremelaw.org/authors/mitchell/karmacts.htm

District court of the U.S.
http://www.supremelaw.org/rsrc/dcus.htm

Does a U.S.Attorney have jurisdiction??
http://www.supremelaw.org/letters/us-v-usa.htm


45 posted on 06/01/2013 7:21:23 AM PDT by phockthis (http://www.supremelaw.org/fedzone11/index.htm ...)
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To: KeyLargo

The first amendment protection of free speech is already meaningless in all levels of academia, much of the news media, in the government bureaucracy, in the military, in labor unions, in many statehouses, and in most large corporations. Once the leftists gain control of both the House and Senate, as well as one more seat on the Supreme Court, we will see the “living” Constitution enshrined to be defined by Supreme Court dictate. Congress will pass hate speech laws which will be upheld by the Supreme Court and enforced by the federal government. Say goodbye to talk radio, internet bloggers, the Tea Party, and any group that opposes the progressive agenda. Those FEMA camps will fill up rapidly.


46 posted on 06/01/2013 7:23:42 AM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: txrefugee
TN used to have men like Davy Crockett. Where are freedom-loving men now when they are needed?

“You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas”

47 posted on 06/01/2013 7:24:40 AM PDT by EricT. (Another Muslim terrorist. Who saw that coming?)
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To: Starboard

Yes, they do take an oath to uphold the constitution and we need to start making them adhere to that oath.


Federal law regulating oath of office by government officials is divided into four parts along with an executive order which further defines the law for purposes of enforcement. 5 U.S.C. 3331, provides the text of the actual oath of office members of Congress are required to take before assuming office. 5 U.S.C. 3333 requires members of Congress sign an affidavit that they have taken the oath of office required by 5 U.S.C. 3331 and have not or will not violate that oath of office during their tenure of office as defined by the third part of the law, 5 U.S.C. 7311 which explicitly makes it a federal criminal offense (and a violation of oath of office) for anyone employed in the United States Government (including members of Congress) to “advocate the overthrow of our constitutional form of government”. The fourth federal law, 18 U.S.C. 1918 provides penalties for violation of oath office described in 5 U.S.C. 7311 which include: (1) removal from office and; (2) confinement or a fine.

The definition of “advocate” is further specified in Executive Order 10450 which for the purposes of enforcement supplements 5 U.S.C. 7311. One provision of Executive Order 10450 specifies it is a violation of 5 U.S.C. 7311 for any person taking the oath of office to advocate “the alteration ... of the form of the government of the United States by unconstitutional means.” Our form of government is defined by the Constitution of the United States. It can only be “altered” by constitutional amendment. Thus, according to Executive Order 10450 (and therefore 5 U.S. 7311) any act taken by government officials who have taken the oath of office prescribed by 5 U.S.C. 3331which alters the form of government other by amendment, is a criminal violation of the 5 U.S.C. 7311.


48 posted on 06/01/2013 7:25:07 AM PDT by phockthis (http://www.supremelaw.org/fedzone11/index.htm ...)
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To: KeyLargo

“A U.S. attorney in Tennessee is reportedly vowing to use federal civil rights statutes to clamp down on offensive and inflammatory speech about Islam.”

The Roberts court has already ruled on this in the Westboro Baptist Church case:

Quoting Roberts:

“Speech is powerful, it can stir people to action, move them to tears of both joy and sorrow, and as it did here inflict great pain. But under the First Amendment, we cannot react to that pain by punishing the speaker. Instead, the national commitment to free speech, he said, requires protection of even hurtful speech on public issues to ensure that we do not stifle public debate.”

This pathetic excuse for a U.S. attorney won’t even make it past the circuit judges if he tries such nonsense and attempts to prosecute.


49 posted on 06/01/2013 7:36:32 AM PDT by ScottfromNJ
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To: KeyLargo

I guess that “Separation of Church and State” thing only applies to Christians and Jews. No way is this an endorsement of a religion /sarc off


50 posted on 06/01/2013 7:39:17 AM PDT by anoldafvet
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To: Atlas Sneezed
If you keep finding that infidels deserve to suffer and die, and wonder if other religions are the same, try the test with the Bible.

I just finished reading Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Numbers, Joshua and Psalms with my son and did not find any sections calling for the suffering or death of infidels or anyone unless they had committed some crime, such as murder or adultery.

51 posted on 06/01/2013 7:39:42 AM PDT by montag813
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To: KeyLargo

Just to make sure I get it. You have people of that ‘religion’ bomb the Boston Marathon and cut off a soldiers head - and the response is to jail people that complain about it?

How is this supposed help things?


52 posted on 06/01/2013 7:47:15 AM PDT by BobL (To us it's a game, to them it's personal - therefore they win.)
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To: KeyLargo

Can I put a representation of Mohamed with a pressure cooker on his head, surrounded by naked little boys and girls into a jar of urine and display it as art?

Well, Justice Department, can I?


53 posted on 06/01/2013 7:53:46 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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Killian pointed to a recent controversy where a local Tennessee politician posted a photo of a man aiming a shotgun at the camera with the caption "How to wink at a Muslim." "If a Muslim had posted ‘How to Wink at a Christian,’ could you imagine what would have happened?" Killian asked, according to the newspaper.

Yeah...I could imagine...NOTHING happening. Not one darn thing would happen to them! In fact they post videos all the time talking about killing infidels/jews/Christians/Americans or anybody else they decide this week to hate!

And the worst part?

They then go out and do it.


54 posted on 06/01/2013 7:58:39 AM PDT by EBH (The government that sits in Washington, D.C. is not the United States government.)
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To: KeyLargo

Can’t wait. Bring it on.


55 posted on 06/01/2013 7:59:19 AM PDT by fivecatsandadog (Let's not be so open-minded that our brains fall out.)
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56 posted on 06/01/2013 7:59:59 AM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: SampleMan
"Can I put a representation of Mohamed with a pressure cooker on his head, "

NO!

Below photo is approved by DOJ however....

57 posted on 06/01/2013 8:00:56 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

Well - there goes my website:

http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html


58 posted on 06/01/2013 8:01:49 AM PDT by BCW (http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html - A real life experience book about the war in Iraq)
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59 posted on 06/01/2013 8:04:05 AM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: JoeProBono

No, the feds did not say that anti-Muslim speech can be punished, one federal prosecutor in Tennessee, said it. Of course, it cannot be punished in the US, any more than those who criticize Christianity can be punished.


60 posted on 06/01/2013 8:06:32 AM PDT by Eva
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