Gingrich, First Amendment enemy, thinks the US could "lose a city...in the next decade"

[BurtWorm]

So he's a fascist AND a nut (not that those are mutually exclusive of course).

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Gingrich+raises+alarm+at+event+honoring+those+who+stand+up+for+freedom+of+speech&articleId=d3f4ee4e-1e90-475a-b1b0-bbcd5baedd78


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

By RILEY YATES
Union Leader Staff
15 hours, 58 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.



Newt 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.

Gingrich sharply criticized campaign finance laws he charged were reducing free speech and doing little to fight attack advertising. He also said court rulings over separation of church and state have hurt citizens' ability to express themselves and their faith.

[iconoclastic cat]

1. That sounds like a threat to me. Send DHS after him. nt

[trotsky]

4. Giving aid and comfort to the enemy, at a bare minimum.

Essentially telling them they could accomplish it easily. Ann Coulter thinks liberals should be executed for less.

[Little Wing]

2. Hey, putzface, we just lost one last year

Show us how you're gonna fix NO, and maybe we'll warm up to you handling other things.

[Lerkfish]

8. you beat me to it.

I was gonna say we already lost one.

[Richard Steele]

3. We already lost a damn city thanks to the repubs. New Orleans ring a bell, Newt?

Asshole.

[JTFrog]

5. As mentioned

before...

he doesn't seem overly concerned that we already lost a city (N.O.).

They need some new material for their fear games. This stuff is really getting old. Crying wolf all the time is so dangerous. How many of us are going to believe them when there is a real threat at this point?

[butterfly77]

19. Yes, we know that we are in danger but....

but they keep adding fuel to the fire...and like you said we never know if they are lying..

[Turbineguy]

6. He may have an idea...

Why don't we set up a city where all those batshit crazy rebuplican people move to. That way..... While they're waiting, he can play with Kathryn Harris' groodies or something.

[KamaAina]

9. Aaaaaauuuggggghhhh!

While they're waiting, he can play with Kathryn Harris' groodies or something.

Kinda gives a whole new meaning to the prhase "real horrorshow groodies", doesn't it? :scared:

[Bake]

20. Maybe we'll get lucky and THAT will be the city we lose!

Ya think?

Bake

[krispos42]

7. Yeah, that's right. Ignore the root causes of terroristm

Why deal with poverty and starvation and an arrogent US foreign policy that does not care how free or repressive a government is as long as they'll sell oil?

And I find it totally facinating that the lobbyists and other monied people don't have ENOUGH free speech, while people like, um, the rest of the country have far too much.

And the freedom of worship has not hurt anybody's ability to express themselves and their faith. It had just kept fanatics from using the government apparatus from hammering it into everybody's skull.

[PreacherCasey]

15. agree 100%

This is what is so frustrating to me. We have all this talk about tactics, strategy, ect. but no one wants to talk about the fundamental causes of the problem, much less do anything about it.

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. How very republican of him -

to push for the abridgement of the freedom of speech at a banquet that is celebrating the exercise of free speech.

:wtf:

[twilight_sailing]

11. Anybody can make silly predictions, some come true some don't.

[GumboYaYa]

12. Damn straight, look at what happened to New Orleans already.

If we don't get serious about fighting a global war on climate change soon, we may lose more than one city. It is high time we do something about the threat facing our country....Ooops wrong topic....

[aquart]

13. Asshole. We ALREADY lost a city!

And where were you when the people of New Orleans were begging for water and food?

There isn't a terrorist on this earth who can compete with a hurricane. Or the ruinous, murderous BushCo.

[rman]

14. Who does he think is going to fall for this again?

(am i the only one who is reminded of Bush and Condi's mushroom cloud statements?)

We've had so much fear mongering in order to curtail civil rights already, it think people are on to this trick.

[DavidDvorkin]

16. Maybe the U.S. will be lucky

And instead of losing a city, it will lose a Gingrich.

That's the photo of a man who's deteriorating rapidly.

[thingfisher]

17. Why is this man still in the public eye???!!!

(Lije a dirty finger).

[HCE SuiGeneris]

18. Another sack of shit terrorizing the American people!

f U Newty!

[Matariki]

21. I fully expect to see the Republicans go after the freedom of the internet

Freedom of communication is a HUGE threat to them. Communication between individuals, rather than filtered through controlled mass media is a huge threat to them. The inability to control what is reported, what becomes big news stories and what stays repressed must drive them batshit crazy. They lost the election in large part due to 'net-roots'. They have no better ideas than to try and destroy free speech. They're freaking dinosaurs. Hopefully near extinction...

[Rex]

22. Newty is the king of nobodies.

Just floating along, waiting for the big flush! :rofl:

[TheFarseer]

23. We already lost a city

and it had nothing to do with 1st Amerndment rights. If we just would have sodimized more prisoners of war with broomsticks, New Orleans might have been saved :eyes:

[shance]

24. I wonder which city Newt and his neocon buddies are planning to nuke?

n/t