Gingrich raises alarm at event honoring those who stand up for freedom of speech

[applegrove]

Gingrich raises alarm at event honoring those who stand up for freedom of speech
By RILEY YATES
Union Leader Staff
14 hours, 21 minutes ago


MANCHESTER – "Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich yesterday said the country will be forced to reexamine freedom of speech to meet the threat of terrorism.


GINGRICH
Gingrich, speaking at a Manchester awards banquet, said a "different set of rules" may be needed to reduce terrorists' ability to use the Internet and free speech to recruit and get out their message.

"We need to get ahead of the curve before we actually lose a city, which I think could happen in the next decade," said Gingrich, a Republican who helped engineer the GOP's takeover of Congress in 1994.

Gingrich spoke to about 400 state and local power brokers last night at the annual Nackey S. Loeb First Amendment award dinner, which fetes people and organizations that stand up for freedom of speech.

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[BOSSHOG]

1. How do you get "conservatives" to vote for you?

Tell them you want to destroy the constitution.

[stepnw1f]

2. How UnAmerican Can the GOP Get?

Yeah... just take away our Freedoms Republican Party..... seems to be all you know how to do to fight terrorism. What a bunch of bullshit.... You Nazis always wanted to this shit and terrorism was the perfect excuse.

[peacetalksforall]

3. Pondering why they selected him to speak to them? nt

[sam sarrha]

4. because he is the kind of Fascist that represents their wish to destroy the Constitution

[peacetalksforall]

6. Their? This organization sounds like they are activists for freedom?

[lyonn]

13. Freedom of speech in particular is their goal, so it seems?

Newt is definitely running for Pres. He states that the present admin. is not properly dealing with the debacle in Iraq, but, notice, he does not give a clue as to what He thinks is the answer to calming that country. He does the usual repub chicken shit statement, we need to do something different, but, not What to do different.

My opinion? Newt is the one to beat in the Pres election. All the other contenders have even more baggage than he does - - that is one sick Party (Repub)

[sam sarrha]

16. i missread

[peacetalksforall]

17. Mabe not? Thom Hartman called them an ultra right wing group?

I'm confused.

[sam sarrha]

18. i heard them called power brokers.. sounded like Fascist pigs to me..

[AndyTiedye]

5. Gotta Crank Up the Propaganda To Make Sure…

…that the Repiglicans never lose another election.

All their propaganda and all their election fraud still did not keep them in control of Congress.
This is a matter of great concern to them.

[solara]

7. A "different set of rules"

People have said that as long as the progressive bloggers are around it will be much harder for the RW radicals to keep their secret agendas hidden.

So, the Rethugs in congress are attempting to pass a law that would abandon Net Neutrality to control the internet, which is arguably the last bastion for free speech in America. There has long been a vague undercurrent of "moral disapproval" being generated toward the internet. It is a perception that floats beneath the more obvious anti-blog statements. The Rethugs and their sympathizers have been laying down a systematic smoke screen of doubt and twisted logic to justify their call to limit free speech on the internet.

After all, the root cause of many of the most recent "scandals" has been attributed to the liberal and 'free speech' atmosphere found on the internet... the Foley scandal, the Haggard scandal, the posting of the nuclear blue prints, even liberal political blog sites have been blamed, in part, for the dramatic win of the House and Senate. The RW radicals are subtly making a case for the idea that people can be unduly influenced by what they encounter on the web, (bad!) or that information is overly accessible and that the security risk is too high to allow it to continue.

And so now we hear from Newt "Contract on Amerca' Gingrich, who is 'testing the waters' for his '08 run for the Presidency. Gingrich proposes a 'new set of rules" for the internet to meet "the threat of terrorism"..echos of the Patriot Act..echos of Posse Comitatus, echos of the Military Commissions Act of 2006.

"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you."
-Dick Cheney

[applegrove]

8. If you loose free speech... al Qaeda won the war on terrorism. Cause

you've turned in on yourself and attacked!!

[solara]

11. Newt is just giving us a glimpse of his "new" Contract on America

Rethugs already own the media, now all that's left is to stifle the bleating of the proletariat sheep.

[lyonn]

14. You got it - isn't this a newspaper type award?

The media in general, be it newspapers or tv, are afraid the internet will overpower Their Media. Who got bush's dirty dealing out there for All to see, the internet bloggers!!

They (MSM) have got to shut it (Net) down or lose millions/billions. The internet has begun the mind rape of the masses, yipeee! Truth is out there if people are looking for it by by-passing the MSM. How fun is that?!

[solara]

15. I don't think the RW radicals think of the internet as anything but a threat to their plans

May 21, 1999
"There ought to be limits to freedom"- GW Bush

[lyonn]

9. Once again Gingrich has let us "dummies" know that

we don't know what is good for us and "He" does. Newt just knew in 2000 that he was the chosen one for Pres and then he got caught cheating. What a relief that was for me as he looked like the most likely Repub prospect for Pres and then, we got Bush dumped on us. Newt hasn't given up, I am convinced he believes he is the real "smart" leader of this country. Watch out for Newt as he is like a snake waiting in the grass for his prey. He is a snake!

Newt knows all about Sheeple!

[mom cat]

10. First they came for the Quakers ......

[jilln]

12. But we don't have to fix levees before we lose a city...

They'd rather fight nouns than face physical reality.

[kdpeters]

19. Newt, if you want to give up your freedom of speech -- LEAVE!!!

[benEzra]

20. The old "give me your freedom and I'll give you security" mantra...

no thanks. :grr: