Facebook Removes Az. Gov. Jan Brewer's Post Critical Of Obama

Fox KFYI/AP ^ | 19 Aug 2011 | Paul Davenport

[CharlyFord]

PHOENIX (AP) - Facebook said Friday it mistakenly removed a post in which Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer criticized a controversial policy decision by President Barack Obama's administration to limit deportations of illegal immigrants.

The Republican governor had said in a post Friday that Facebook censored the item she posted Thursday because it apparently violated Facebook's community standards.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I wouldn’t be surprised in the least!

[sputshot]

FFB

[kara2008]

Here is the post and photo FB removed.

Governor Jan Brewer

After I posted the following statement and photo yesterday, Facebook censored the post and removed it because the photo apparently violated their "Facebook Community Standards." Before it was removed, it had received over 10,000 likes and comments.

Regardless, I'm reposting the photo and statement. I think many of you will agree with me - - Obama's backdoor amnesty plan violates American standards of following the rule of law and the US Constitution.

Please click "like" and share with your friends.

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The Obama administration cannot get its amnesty schemes through Congress, so now it has resorted to implementing its plans via executive fiat. There’s simply no other description for today’s announcement that the federal government will not pursue the deportation of individuals who are in the country illegally but meet certain criteria.

This plan amounts to backdoor amnesty for hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of illegal aliens. Especially disturbing is that it comes in the wake of the Obama administration sanctioning the sale of weapons to Mexican drug cartels – even as border states such as Arizona come under threat from those same illicit organizations. With this announcement, the President is encouraging more illegal immigration at the exact moment we need federal focus on border security.

Just last month in speaking to the National Council of La Raza, President Obama rejected the idea of bypassing Congress and imposing immigration reform. He said, "Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own. And believe me, right now dealing with Congress, the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting … But that's not how our system works. That’s not how our democracy functions. That's not how our Constitution is written."

President Obama got it right last month and got it really wrong today.

Over the next 15 months, I’m certain we’ll hear a lot of talk from the Obama administration about its concern for border security. Those of us who truly care about the rule of law will remember the President’s actions of today. We need to remind President Obama that we elected a president that serves beneath the law and did not anoint a king that is above the law.

[CharlyFord]

Gov. Jan Brewer's post is in no way out of line nor is the image improper. As Hillary Clinton said, "We have a right to disagree"!

[fwdude]

Someday it might.

I fully expect it; about the same time that a mark on the hand or forehead will be required to buy or sell.

[fwdude]

Thats why a BUNCH of us are leaving facebook and doing Google Plus.

Google is every bit as leftist as FB. And they track your activity and sell it to others. Dump them completely. I use Startpage, for all my search engine activities.

[fwdude]

Facebook is so over-rated and unnecessary. People get completely inveigled by the latest toy, and FB is one of them.

I'm on a quest for low-tech living of late. You can't eat bytes of information, but you can eat the produce from your own garden and the products of your livestock. That will be a million times more valuable than the bilge people are lapping up nowadays in the very near future. It will be why the Left eventually perishes.

[CharlyFord]

[kara2008]

Right. Ironically, I just stumbled upon the article linked below about how Facebook REFUSES to remove a FB page "dedicated" to harming Sarah Palin.

Snip (link to article below...) Yet despite hundreds of people flagging the page as inappropriate, and despite pages set up specifically to protest the “kill Palin” page, Facebook has refused to remove it.

Facebook Refuses to Remove Page Calling for Sarah Palin's Assassination

That evil FB page is still up today even though it is in direct violation of Facebook's policy. And FB removes Governor Brewer's post for "violating" their policies? Unbelievable!

[Christian4Bush]

bump

[Ezekiel]

That evil FB page is still up today even though it is in direct violation of Facebook's policy. And FB removes Governor Brewer's post for "violating" their policies? Unbelievable!

Facebook has the same mark (character) of the obamabeast that it worships. The operators parrot the arrogance and in-your-face flipoffs of their royal heiness, Obama.

Facebook, or the Book of Life?

[mitch77]

* * * * SO GET THIS * * * *
“Facebook is not - and has never been - in the business of disabling accounts or removing content simply because people are discussing controversial topics,” Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes said in a statement to The Associated Press. “On the contrary, we want Facebook to be a place where people can openly express their views and opinions, even if others don’t agree with them.” http://goo.gl/eMQ11

[Chiltepe]

The Leftists operating within any organization often disregard the rights of those with whom they disagree regardless of corporate policy.

This truly is a widespread problem, and what I suspect happened here. I was thinking about this earlier, and how FB simply saying "Oops, we made a mistake" doesn't solve the problem. They need to explain WHY the mistake was made, who specifically was responsible for the deletion (at least internally), and what is being done about it.

[Marathoner]

"I wouldn’t open an account with them if my life depended on it."

What you said. Although, we must be among the last 400 or so folks that haven't.

Well, I'm about to join you guys. Facebook sucks. I used to find it somewhat useful, but lately it's become so cluttered with ads that it constantly freezes my computer. I'm just disgusted with it (in addition to all the other reasons not to use it).