Hollywood Trashes Americans 1st Amendment Right To Free Speech. Shuts Down Anti-Hollywood Website

BushCountry.org ^ | 05/04/03 | Jim Ownbey

[justme346]

Help Bush Country expose this injustice.  Do your part in sending this to Foxnews, CNN and any other news outlets you can think of.  We MUST stop Hollywood liberals from taking rights away from regular Americans. What are we talking about? Read below:

The William Morris Agency has been successful in silencing the American Public with their efforts in closing down the website http://www.boycott-hollywood.us. If you cannot access the site, here is the cached page: http://www.hollywoodhalfwits.com/boycott_hollywood.htm

WMA has put pressure to Dotster through their Attorneys (Rintala, Smoot, Jaenicke, & Rees LLP in Los Angeles, CA) to close down the website, which consisted of the postings of every day American Citizens expressing their feelings and opinions about Liberal Hollywood. The full info is posted on the boycott-Hollywood. us website which will go down permanently in 24-48 hours.

This is clearly an infringment of our 1st Admendment rights of free speech and is outrageous and unforgivable on the part of WMA.

See below for info from the boycott-Hollywood site.  Help us by contacting these people and all the media outlets you can find to share your outrage!  Remember when Martin Sheen put out a commercial to inundate Washington DC with calls, faxes, and emails?  We guess Hollywood believes it's ok for them to do this, but the average American citizen is NOT allowed!  Bush Country for one, will keep up the fight!  These anti-American Hollywood leftists will never see a penny of our money ever again!  Here is the email sent out from the Boycott-Hollywood.us website along with a letter from the law office. Here is the email that was sent out to their supporters:

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Well, folks - it's been a blast and it's been fun.

Apparently, our domain registrar (namesdirect.com - subsidiary of Dotster.com) have caved to the pressures of the William Morris Agency giant. On April 29, 2003, Dotster.com received a letter from the William Morris Agency in regards to this website. Their complaint accused us of liable and potentially other civil and criminal offenses.

This is another fine example of how Hollywood feels that their opinion and view is the only one that matters. Average citizens are disallowed the free expression of our point of view because they don't like being challenged for their views. I stand firm on the belief that we have done nothing wrong at this website - - The celebrities have expressed their views, and we have responded in kind by expressing our views regarding the thoughts and ideas that they have, publicly, expressed.

Dotster.com has suspended our update information at this domain and have informed us that the DNS information of this domain has been changed and the website will be down within the next 24 hours and our contract with them is now null and void. They are doing this because we did not provide accurate contact information in their public database.

When I explained that the reason we did not provide accurate contact information is because we have received multiple death threats and I did not wish for just anyone to have my personal information - and asked them for suggestions on what to do - Dotster was unmoved. They did not give me the chance to update the information with accurate information and keep the domain. That's not an option - - they are just simply going to shut down our domain - no explanation needed.

Further questioning of Dotster brought me a copy of the letter sent to them by the William Morris Agency and reads as follows:

We, in fact, received no such email from the William Morris Agency.

I can say only this - - the fact that we're being shut down because of the William Morris Agency tells me that we truly touched a raw nerve in someone, somewhere. At the very least, it tells me that our message was received by the people that it was intended for. The very fact that we cannot express our opinions regarding the views of these stars/celebs shows me, yet again, the double standard that exists in Follywood.

Thank you all for your support at this website - it appears my hands are tied in keeping it open. Dotster will be closing down our site within the next 24-48 hours. I appreciate the hard work that Chris and Reilly have done at this site and appreciate the ongoing and intelligent, provoking discussions held here.

Warm Regards.

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Bush Country thought we would provide email addresses for both WMA and major media outlets.

Emails for WMA:

admin@wma.com; bgd@wma.com; eseastrand@wma.com; jmb@wma.com; jec@wma.com; jornstein@wma.com; jgiaime@wma.com; mguss@wma.com; mai@wma.com; rem@wma.com; shg@wma.com; tc@wma.com

Phone number for the Attorneys Office: 1-310-203-0935

Email Addresses of Media Outlets:

drudge@drudgereport.com; comments@foxnews.com; hannity@foxnews.com; oreilly@foxnews.com; cnn@cnn.com; netaudr@abc.com; World@MSNBC.com; letters@MSNBC.com

It would be best to send this web pages url to the media outlets explaining in your own words what is going on. To send the email using Internet Explorer, click on "File" then "send" and then "link by email".

Hopefully, with our combined efforts, we can expose Hollywood once again.

[Remedy]

Classical Greece and Classical Hollywood In our increasingly libertine society and culture, returning to first principles—restoring the virtues of moral elevation and self-restraint—is a major challenge of civic education in which, yes, the great movies of the past have an important role to play.

Modern Art and the Death of a Culture Dr. Rookmaaker was the Professor of the History of Art at the Free University of Amsterdam. This book is his very interesting analysis of art and how it reflects the culture. Rookmaaker was of the opinion that artists were like canaries in a mine. They were (are) the early warning system. They show clearly where a society is headed. They are not (as many cultural conservatives falsely believe) the cause of societies problems, rather they are the earliest indicators of those problems. This book (first published in 1970) is more timely than ever. It (and Dr. Rookmaaker) were a huge influence on Dr. Francis Schaeffer (The entire "line of despair" idea in "The God Who is There" comes from Rookmaaker).

[friendly]

Thanks to some good people fighting evil and corruption.

Where is the ACLU of this outrageous violaion of the First Amendment? (LONG SILENCE)

Answer: The ACLU only defends "free speech" that seeks to destroy this country and destroy the freedoms of its Constitution.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

We believe that by engaging in the conduct above, the authors and/or other persons responsible for the www.boycott-hollywood.us website may potentially be liable, both criminally and civilly, for a variety of offenses.

It sounds to me like the Hollywood crowd is engaging in harrassment. They're happy as long as idiotic fans are buying their crap and telling them how wonderful they are, but they fall to pieces as soon as they're made accountable for their stupid and irresponsible actions.

This website was probably shut down because the provider didn't want to have to fight a lawsuit. It's the endless checkbook theory. The Hollywood crowd can spend you to death in court whether the lawsuit has any merit or not. Most people can't finance the hundreds of thousands, and possibly millions, of dollars defending themselves in court.

These Hollyweird celebrity degenerates may be able to screw around with an internet website that is afraid of getting sued, but until they show up at my house and force me to buy their videos at gunpoint, I won't buy their stinking garbage that is being paraded as art. Society would be better without their skiffy "art". < /rant off >

[Texas Eagle]

Well, I tried forwarding this story to Drudge but the e-mail kept coming back to me as undeliverable. I was successful in forwarding it to Rush. Hopefully he will think it's worthy to bring up.

[justshe]

Help me out here.

In what manner has the federal government attempted to shut down this website.....which would make their claim re: 1st Amendment rights infringement legitimate.

This is pet peeve of mine re: those who holler about the 1st Amendment...when clearly inappropriate.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[Sofa King]

Once again, hollywood shows it's selfishness. It's always about THEIR freedom of speech. Us lowly peasant need to just shut up and know out place.

I wonder how many of these lowlifes have even READ the First Amendment.

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http://go.everwars.com/play.x?p=1554

[Cagey]

Everytime I read a thread about this site being shut down I try to access it and it loads just fine. Is this some kind of PR job?

[steplock]

I mailed that list AND to several Newspaper editor in my area:

-----Original Message-----
From:
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 1:14 PM
To: tc@wma.com; shg@wma.com; rem@wma.com; mai@wma.com; mguss@wma.com; jgiaime@wma.com; jornstein@wma.com; jec@wma.com; jmb@wma.com; eseastrand@wma.com; bgd@wma.com; admin@wma.com
Subject: Pitiful Threats by pitiful people

It seems that -- any negative comments -- from any website operator -- about any "actor" -- is to be considered as libelous?

Well, actions, such as these by this agency and their law firm, ** I ** consider as a threat to the freedoms of our country as given by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, and therefore I would charge that the agency and the law firm appear to me to border on "Terroristic Threatening" and violate the "Civil Rights" of a citizen to express personal opinions on a "public figure"..

What do these "clients" really fear? That the people of the United States will see them for what they really are?

[Petruchio]

http://www.boycott-hollywood.us is still up.

From the webpage:

PS - We're still here!! We're in the process of changing registrars AND hosts and we'll be providing you with a new domain name in the next 5-7 days. Thanks for sticking with us!!

[Fixit]

[steplock]

"Everytime I read a thread about this site being shut down I try to access it and it loads just fine. Is this some kind of PR job?"

It is shut down to me here in Arkansas. This is due to the different areas/ISP/etc updating the DNS servers at different rates.

It will probably be dead to you by tomorrow.

Hmmm - Interesting - The web site IS back up now from here!

http://www.boycott-hollywood.us/

Maybe they realized the ILLEGALITY of shutting this down??

[Texas Eagle]

This is the message I got when I clicked on the HollywoodHalfwits.com link

Your email message has been idle and this link has become inactive. To access the link, close this window and return to your MSN Hotmail Message. Then click the browser's Refresh button or close your message and reopen it.

[Texas Eagle]

That is an excellent point. One that can also be made about school prayer. The Constitution doesn't say anything about local school districts. It only makes reference to Congress being prohibited from establishing a religion.

[Petruchio]

The link you used is a bad link. Try the one in post #10.

[ThreePuttinDude]

I found this MegaLinks List to a colossal list of email addresses. Hope it helps.....

Complete List of links to email addresses

[Alain2112]

Where is the ACLU of this outrageous violaion of the First Amendment?

*Is* this a violation of the first amendment? While the behavior of WMA has been despicable, I don't see that the federal government has passed a law inhibiting speech. When we have the moral high ground we should pound Truth and Justice, rather than squandering our point with idiotic pseudolegal blather.

The democtrats do enough of that for us all.

[friendly]

Sorry, but you are dead wrong.

This is ABSOLUTELY a violation of Free Speech and a violation of the First Amendment rights of those who protest the Hollywood Left.

[Violette]

I'm wondering if discretion needs to be applied when supplying contact information on the site. Is it truly necessary to place e-mail information on the site? Why not instead offer a snail mail address for contact information. I agree with the spirit of the boycott hollywood site, but she does need to use her head regarding the information she posts.

[NonValueAdded]

Agreed. While the Federal Government is not directly involved at the moment, the complaining party is threatening to use the judicial system and, by inference, the weight and power of the US to squash the target site. If we had a loser-pays system, it might just be a different story; the web site might win not only the suit but a healthy counter-claim as well.

Alas, that is not the case and one can only hope that organizations like the ACLU would step in to defend the little guy. Not likely but there must be right-thinking organizations that would. Perhaps our own Jim Rob might have some private advice to pass along.