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One of journalism's favorite notions is that we don't become part of the story. We are supposed to be some sort of object (you know, objective) that doesn't feel, that stays aloof and writes from an omniscient perch above it all.
It is a lie, and we need to stop repeating it. The first principle of the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics is "Seek truth and report it." Here is the truth about journalism: Journalists aren't objects; we are people. We feel. We have families and emotions. We have moral standards. When we show up for truly personal or potentially volatile interviews or events, we become part of the story and denying that violates our obligation to tell the truth.
But the Society of Professional Journalists denied it this week, somberly cautioning journalists in Haiti: "Report the story, don't become part of it." As I have written before, my family became a small part of the Haiti story this month. I will address the ethics of that story shortly. But first I want to write about the underlying ethical principles. I teach ethics in journalism seminars across North America (Ottawa, Canada, and Berkeley, Calif., this month), and I know that journalists sometimes like to reduce ethics to simple do-this-don't-do-that rules. And ethics often aren't that simple.
Another principle of the SPJ Code of Ethics is "Act independently." I believe in that principle. But I don't think it's as simple as we sometimes try to make it. Yes, our journalism must remain independent of people in power and of the commercial interests who fund our news organizations. But when did independence morph into aloofness and lack of humanity?
I have known that journalists couldn't avoid becoming part of the story since I was a fledgling journalist in high school. I had been a varsity runner in the fall for Shenandoah High School's first cross country team. I also was a part-time sports writer for the Evening Sentinel, covering the Corner Conference, smaller schools in the surrounding area. Before track season began, the sports editor, Chuck Offenburger, got a job at the Des Moines Register and I took over coverage of Shenandoah sports. I planned not to run track. I hadn't been that good at cross country. I was ready to concentrate on my journalism career and leave athletics behind. But most of the basketball team got caught drinking at state tournament and suspended from sports for a couple months. Few of Shen's best athletes could run in track meets.
Shen didn't even have a miler and I could run the mile. So one way or another I was part of the story. Either I wrote about the lack of distance runners and mentioned that in addition to the suspensions, one varsity cross country runner had decided to become a sports writer. Or I ran and figured out how to cover myself as part of the story. At that tender age, I was not yet aware of SPJ (then known as Sigma Delta Chi) or its code of ethics, but I recognized the difficult situation. At that tender age, I also did not budget my time very well. So I went out for track, while covering the track team for the local paper. I earned a varsity letter and two fourth-place ribbons, meriting nothing more than an occasional mention at the end of the story.
In the journalism education that began the next year and in the career that unfolded in nearly four decades since, I learned about the journalistic principle of objectivity. And I grew as a person. And I learned that the notion of objectivity is a fig leaf for journalists who don't want to deal honestly with our own humanity and don't want to take personal responsibility for the human impact of our journalism. We're just doing our jobs. We're just being objective. Objects can't be responsible.
Journalism is practiced by flesh-and-blood people with families and pulses. We can and should uphold professional standards such as fairness and accuracy and verification. But when we deny our humanity, we lie to our readers. And sometimes we miss the story. Yes, we should honor the ethical principle of independence, but the SPJ code explaining that principle acknowledges the difficult balance it entails: "Avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived," it warns us. Then in the next breath it acknowledges that's not always possible: "Disclose unavoidable conflicts."
As I spent more time working more difficult stories, I recognized that my humanity helped me gain the trust of a character I was interviewing and learn her story in a way an aloof, objective reporter could not. Empathy and understanding became essential interviewing and writing tools. As I noted in an earlier post about Allen Thompson's riveting account of his quest for the truth about two killings in Rwanda, the heart is a powerful journalistic tool. Allen (whom I had dinner with this week in Ottawa) didn't inject himself into that story. He was a character in it and he either told the story truthfully or he didn't. I'm glad he did.
If you tell a story, sometimes you become a part of it. If you write a story about the trauma of sexual abuse (as I have far too many times), you add to that trauma by asking about it and by writing about it (in follow-up interviews, I have been told more than once that the first interview brought nightmares). To pretend you can't become part of that story is a lie. Even if I tell the story entirely in third person, I am now part of the pain that I write about.
If you write a story about a youth's suicide and the impact it has on the parents, you become part of that impact. When a distraught mother was wailing during an interview, on her knees practically embracing a large framed portrait of her daughter, the human heart beating inside of me couldn't remain on the couch with my notebook, waiting objectively to write down the next coherent quote. I had to get up, step across a line that is artificial anyway and put an arm around her, offering a moment of human comfort. I was pretty much at the end of the interview by then, but I stuck around another hour or two, listening and talking sympathetically as a lucky dad to a grieving mom. I called from the road on a phony journalistic premise about a half-hour after I left just to be sure she was OK (as OK as a grieving mom can be). I knew she was when she asked, "You're checking up on me, aren't you?" She assured me her husband had locked up all the pills and potential weapons. I didn't call again, but I still worried.
As I've written before, my niece Mandy Poulter and her husband Matt had completed adoption procedures for an orphan from Haiti, Maya Esther, when the earthquake hit. When I pitched the story to colleagues in other news organizations, I raised the possibility of Matt accompanying their crews to Haiti, if that didn't cross their ethical boundaries. I recognized from the first that this story could present ethical challenges.
No one bought my pitch, but my son Mike, once a U.S. senator's communications director, tipped a Nightline producer to the situation. ABC jumped on the story and Robin Roberts became part of Maya's story. Using Matt's directions, she found the orphanage and found Maya, calling Mandy back home in Pella, Iowa, as ABC captured Mandy's joy on a Skype connection. On a live Good Morning America interview the next morning, Roberts asked Mandy and Matt how they planned to bring Maya home and Mandy said off the cuff that she hoped Roberts could bring Maya back to the United States with her.
Well, Roberts was clearly touched by Maya's story and ABC recognized the value of being able to tell a happy story among all the heartbreaking coverage of Haiti. And clearly, Roberts and her ABC colleagues have beating hearts and human empathy, too. They wanted to see Maya come home to Iowa, not just for the great story, but because all the agony of Haiti was weighing on them as moms and dads and brothers and sisters who could imagine their own families dealing with such a catastrophe.
So when the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince said they had Maya's visa ready, Mandy and Matt were ready to fly to Haiti to bring her home. But getting into Haiti is no easy trick now, so ABC helped. Mandy and Matt flew to the Dominican Republic on their own dime. From there, they flew into Haiti on one of four daily helicopter flights ABC makes to bring supplies to its news crews. ABC also supplied the vehicle (sorry, no rental agencies working in Haiti right now) that Mandy and Matt used to get to the orphanage and to take Maya and some other children to the U.S. Embassy and finally to the airport. (In addition to bringing Maya home, they were able to bring back four more orphans being adopted by other Pella couples.) And yes, with ABC providing the vehicles, ABC told the whole story.
Then Mandy, Matt and the children flew to Florida on a military cargo plane evacuating Americans. And Matt's employer, Pella Corp., maker of Pella Windows, flew them home on a corporate jet. It was a happy story not just for our family, and ABC milked it enthusiastically (and is not done; Roberts said she'd visit them in Pella sometime and I'm sure we'll see that on GMA).
After I blogged and tweeted about it, Jared Taylor, a journalist in Texas, asked on Twitter whether I thought it was ethical "for ABC to fly the Poulters there and cover the story."
Yes, I do. The SPJ code says to "refuse" free travel. But it does not say not to give free travel. I have provided transportation (and picked up the tab for meals) for people I was writing about.
When I was a reporter for the Omaha World-Herald, a victim of sexual assault contacted me, wanting to reach a rape victim I had written about. They had both been attacked by the same man. One lived in a small Iowa town, one in Omaha. They wanted to talk to each other. I drove the Omaha woman to the Iowa town. They talked with each other for a while, then invited me into the conversation. I got a good story out of it. I'm sure that's not the only time I provided transportation for a source.
In our exchange of tweets, Taylor agreed that ABC's involvement in Maya's story was ethical: "If ABC was going there anyway, then it's cool. And given this circumstance, they made more of a difference than just reporting."
Of course, my personal involvement may taint my judgment and my credibility on this issue, but I don't think ABC's involvement with Maya's rescue from Haiti was unethical. The only transportation ABC provided was two seats on a helicopter that was going to Haiti anyway and ground transportation in a chaotic situation where no other options were available. I cannot liken the ride on an ABC helicopter in an emergency situation to NBC's flying David Goldman and his son home from Brazil while covering Goldman's international custody battle. SPJ criticized NBC's involvement in that story (rightly, in my view).
The SPJ code says: "Be wary of sources offering information for favors or money; avoid bidding for news." ABC was not trading favors for information and they were not bidding for Mandy and Matt's story. They found a little girl, provided a helicopter ride and an SUV ride that helped reunite her with her legal parents and they disclosed their involvement in the story. Perhaps they danced up to an ethical line, but their full disclosure kept them on the right side of it.
I should note here that journalists and journalism organizations have a long tradition of involvement in humanitarian efforts. Holiday seasons find many news organizations promoting collections of money, toys, coats or other donations for the needy. Early in my journalism career, the Des Moines Register played a key role in a campaign to collect relief supplies for refugees fleeing the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia. Reporter Bill Simbro accompanied a flight delivering the supplies to refugee camps in Thailand. As a young assistant city editor, I took Simbro's stories by dictation over a horrible international phone line.
And we get involved in less important stories for promotional reasons. The Register promotes RAGBRAI every year and Gazette Communications sponsors local events that our journalists cover.
Most of the journalistic debate relating to ethics in Haiti centers on doctor-journalists practicing medicine and reporting on their work and the work of other health professionals. The debate resulted in the SPJ press release I mentioned earlier, in which President Kevin Smith said, "Advocacy, self promotion, offering favors for news and interviews, injecting oneself into the story or creating news events for coverage is not objective reporting, and it ultimately calls into question the ability of a journalist to be independent, which can damage credibility."
The press release continued:
Undoubtedly, journalists walk a fine line to balance their professional responsibilities with their humanity when covering disasters. SPJ does not nor would it ever criticize or downplay the humane acts journalists are performing in Haiti. But news organizations must use caution to avoid blurring the lines between being a participant and being an objective observer.
"No one wants to see human suffering, and reporting on these events can certainly take on a personal dimension. But participating in events, even with the intention of dramatizing the humanity of the situation, takes news reporting in a different direction and places journalists in a situation they should not be in, and that is one of forgoing their roles as informants," Smith said.
Jeff Jarvis, one of my favorite commentators on journalism, ripped into SPJ (this is just a sampling of his critical tweets):
Who the hell is the Society of Professional Journalists to tell reporters how to behave in Haiti? What gall.
SPJ: Don't cry. And for God's sake, (this mean's you, CNN's doctor), don't cure anyone. How tasteless.
Tyler Dukes defended SPJ (and articulated the position much better than SPJ did) and criticized Jarvis.
While I don't embrace the promotional tone of some of the doctors' TV reports, I regarded the SPJ statement as aloof and pompous, giving lip service to the fact that journalists in Haiti operate amid suffering beyond comprehension but insisting that human compassion in a catastrophe should not trump treasured notions about journalism. The statement reflects a view that values rules over judgment. It reflects an ignorance of the organization's own ethics code (which does not mention objectivity). It ignores the fact that journalists inject themselves into the Haiti story when they land there. Their presence there and their skill in finding and telling stories mobilizes government and charity. Their work also takes up resources and time that could otherwise be devoted to relief efforts. If you want to stay out of the story, don't go.
And if you send doctors to cover the story as journalists, remember that journalism ethics are not their only ethical code. Like that slow kid who couldn't write about a shortage of distance runners when he was one of them, a doctor in Haiti can't and shouldn't resist joining the race to save lives.


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A story of unemployment in 3 acts
I took it personally when a strange dog came over and peed on my foot in the dog park. It was my first week of unemployment and I was already feeling violated. The company had told us the services of our entire editorial team were no longer needed. (Read: outsourcing is cheaper).
Act One: Woe and Liberation
I took it personally when a strange dog came over and peed on my foot in the dog park. It was my first week of unemployment and I was already feeling violated. The company had told us the services of our entire editorial team were no longer needed. (Read: outsourcing is cheaper).
Several co-workers cried, others were angry. I'd been unhappy at work so the termination was jarring but no real loss in a career sense. Perhaps it was easier to accept because all of us were taken down. Unemployment was the great equalizer. The slick and mighty received their comeuppance, too. While I would have preferred to orchestrate my own departure, it was if my integrity and potential were handed back to me.
But you know where this story is heading. After a year of tedious job applications and as much networking as an introvert can bear, I have yet to find full-time work. My six weeks of severance and outplacement services are long gone. ("Crumpets at our beheading," as one of my terminated brethren called it.) My unemployment benefits run out at the end of this year.
Shall I try tweaking my resume one more time?
Act Two: Jump a Little Higher
When it happened, I told friends via e-mail. This way I could let their cheery phone reassurances go into voice mail when the consolation rituals started. They'd be sorry to hear and offer to help. But I wasn't ready for the optimism and pep talks that would follow. Let me wallow a little first.
The circumstances were stacked against me after all. There was my age (AARP-eligible), my industry, the economy. Despite my editorial experience and achievements, good writing is now merely "content" – a commodity in the Internet age. For each job I apply to, there are dozens of younger applicants with expertise in HTML, mobile media, video editing and Google analytics. These skills seem to matter more today than the ability to tell a story or craft a witty headline.
After a week, though, I gathered my fortitude, built a website and got a life on LinkedIn. I took off on the Internet job boards and began getting responses: Do I want to buy a franchise? Train as a bank branch manager? Go to the Philippines to fill an immediate opening for an editor? I lowered the bar a little more.
Another time I got excited about an ad for a writer with 23 years of experience. The odd number was weird, but I was elated to find an employer who valued professional maturity. The job description was displayed again when I got to the website to apply — only this time, 23 years of experience appeared as 2-3 years of experience.
I'm buoyed when unemployment stats go down or my website gets a lot of hits. More often, I've gotten up my hopes, only to be knocked down, blown off or told the position has been rescinded after weeks of hanging on.
If Prufrock measured out his life with coffee spoons, mine is measured with cover letters.
Act Three: And So It Goes
If you're unemployed, the question you most dread from friends is: "Do you have any prospects?"
Sure, I've always got something in the works. But answering 'yes' means I'll be subjected to the curse of happy exclamations as if the job is already mine. This makes the other person feel better but makes it worse when I have to break the news later (as matter-of-factly as possible) that things didn't pan out.
I check any box asking if relocation is possible. There's no holding out for a fat paycheck or upward career move in a recession either. My deadline is April 1. That's when my Cobra benefits expire. I can eke out a living as a freelancer but my health insurance premium will balloon. With a pre-existing condition, it may be easier to marry someone with a plan than obtain affordable health care on my own.
Oh, if not for the anxiety about retirement savings and such it might be a wonderful life. The days belong to me again. I have interesting freelance work that supports my movie-going habit. I've discovered a talent for Twitter hashtag games. There are long walks with the dog when perfect weather beckons. My generous friends and family often insist on paying for dinner.
I ache for the many jobless who are struggling to cover food and housing costs for entire families. My moratorium on vacations and theater tickets is hardly the stuff of suffering. Yet, living in limbo is corrosive, too. A life on hold is shapeless, restrained, tentative. It's a test to get up each morning with a list of tasks but no destination.
Eve Glicksman is a writer, editor and communications consultant in the Philadelphia area. Her work has appeared in leading national magazines, newspapers and websites. To read more, visit www.eveglicksman.com or follow her on Twitter at @evewrites.
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This is my first post here. I am designing my own website using iWeb. Because of iWeb's limitations, there is no way I can play music continuously throughout the website. I did find an html snippet to add to iWeb to bypass this problem. So it seems like my problem is solved, right? Well, no.
On my iWeb site, I made a navigation menu with JQUERY code. This menu doesn't not work with the Continuous Music html snippet. So what are my choices? I was wondering if there was some way I can put a continuous music file directly on to my Cyberduck ftp server. I would like the music to autoplay and loop too. How can I do this? I would be very grateful for any help. Check out my website: bigapplephototours.com
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It is that time of year once again when over the next couple of weeks our own Davie Village becomes the main focus for the festivities in Vancouver, its our time of the Summer season where the West End comes alive with the fantastic and colourful Pride Parade, Street party and Fireworks display – ending with a bang over the August long weekend.
We will break down how the events will transpire and what you can expect – we hope that you will join us in all the fun!
Honda Celebration of Light Fireworks July 26th July 30th & August 2nd
As we have written previously at the end of July and the very first weekend of August is dominated by the incredible Celebration of Light Fireworks display that lights up all of English Bay – as well as the Fireworks there is also a huge Music Festival called Shorefest that is located down at our namesake Beach Sunset Beach which is little over a 5 minute walk away from us.
Important Information:
Please click on this link for further details as it explains where the festival is located and any Road closures you may need to be concerned about: http://blog.sunsetinn.com/?p=5642
Pride Festival, Davie Street Party and Pride Parade July 28th to August 4th.
On July 28th Vancouver City Hall will proudly hoist up the familiar Pride rainbow flag to commemorate the beginning of the main festivities – it is a proud reminder of how important this Parade and festival is and how far it has come with recognition and support since the first parade occurred way back in 1978.
Davie Street Block Party – Friday August 1st
Davie Street once again kicks off the long weekend in style with a street party to remember, the 3 main blocks of Davie Village from Burrard Street to Jervis St closes down for the evening for lots of dancing, singing, live music and more – the main event is ticket only and will have booths where you can buy alcoholic drinks, there are also designated areas that are family friendly where there will be plenty of stalls to visit, live music, karaoke and more…..
Tickets for the Beer Garden can be found here – this area is for ages 19 and over only – $10 and available at Little Sisters (1238 Davie Street, Top Drawers (Davie St) – See more at: http://vancouverpride.ca/events/davie-street-block-party-presented-by-barefoot/#sthash.edor7f1a.dpuf
Davie Village Block Party Map:
You can see our location on this map so you can clearly see where we are in relation to all the events.
Pride Festival, Market and Sunset Beach
Celebrate Pride in one of Vancouver's most beautiful Waterfront parks that is Sunset Beach! Browse through over one hundred exhibitors in our Pride Market, including local artisans, community supporters and non-proft organizations. This is a pedestrian event for the general public to come and enjoy the day, watch live performances on the main stage, sample great food at the food zone and dance to DJ's in the 19+ Beer garden area. After a hot afternoon cheering on the fabulous parade entries, stroll on down to the Pride Festival Family Picnic zone at Jervis and Beach for some delicious street food and cool beverages. The new family fun zone has all kind of kid friendly events.
The Main event – The Pride Parade and Beach Party Finale.
Join us for one of the most beautiful and diverse parades in the world. The Vancouver Pride parade was granted civic status in 2013 and is one of the city's largest flagship events.
Attracting crowds of more than 650,000 the Pride Parade is renowned in the international stage as one of the largest and most successful LGBTQ events in the world. Find your place along one of the most beautiful and diverse parade routes* in the world!
* The parade begins at Robson Street (Shopping district) and Thurlow Street, heads west to Denman St and to Pacific then Beach Avenue and finishes at Sunset Beach where the Pride Festival and markets join forces for a spectacular finale.
For full details on the Pride Parade and more click here: http://vancouverpride.ca/events/pride-parade/
Vancouver Pride Parade 2014 Live Stream.
If for some reason you cannot make it to the Parade or just cannot handle the crowds but still want to see the parade there will be a live stream of the Parade as it happens – Click on the clink to enjoy Pride 2014 in real time! http://vancouverpride.ca/live-stream-2014-pride-parade/


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By Tim Lister
It's not often that a terrorist suspect on trial in the United States is supported by a march to the courthouse, a website and a local pastor. But then the trial of 29-year-old Tarek Mehanna, which gets under way Thursday in U.S. District Court in Boston, is no ordinary case.
Prosecutors have charged Mehanna, a U.S. citizen who has lived in Sudbury Massachusetts, since childhood, with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, conspiring to kill Americans in a foreign territory, and lying to FBI investigators. The prosecution argues that for nearly a decade Mehanna talked with friends about jihad and training as a terrorist.
Mehanna's lawyers say that in collecting and distributing jihadist propaganda he was doing nothing more than exercising his First Amendment right to free expression. They point out that some of the materials he translated involved mujahedeen fighting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan more than 20 years ago.
Mehanna's supporters plan a march from the site of Occupy Boston to the courthouse to mark the beginning of the trial. They have set up a website in his defense. Mehanna is popular in the local Muslim community and taught children at the school of a local mosque. His father was a professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, where Tarek Mehanna earned a doctorate.
But another group, Americans For Peace & Tolerance, is holding a counterdemonstration at the courthouse, describing the online rhetoric of Mehanna's supporters as "exceedingly poisonous." A video posted on the group's website says: "The silence induced by political correctness must be broken in order to deal effectively with the threats posed by Islamic radicalism."
The group's president, Charles Jacobs, told CNN that Mehanna's fate is up to the court, but he takes issue with leaders of Boston's Muslim community for supporting him.
"Who are these people lionizing a man who thinks and says such awful and disgusting things about killing Americans?" Jacobs asks.
Among the videos that prosecutors will show at the trial is a speech by Osama bin Laden to which Mehanna is said to have added subtitles. He is also said to have translated and distributed a tract titled "39 Ways to Serve and Participate in Jihad." Mehanna's blog developed quite a following among English-speaking Muslims.
he defense maintains that at least some of the materials on Mehanna's computer - such as a video of the beheading of U.S. citizen Nicholas Berg - were automatically cached rather than actively downloaded by Mehanna.
At the heart of the case are these questions, according to legal experts: At what point do an individual's behavior, conversations and views amount to "material support" for a terrorist group? When does speech become an instrument to promote terror or recruit for jihad? And when can or should authorities move against someone who is allegedly engaged in "pre-terrorist" activity?
Prosecutors allege that Mehanna set out for Yemen in 2004 with two other men in an abortive attempt to receive terrorist training. They say that trip and his subsequent actions are "consistent with answering the call to act," and that statements to Customs and Border Patrol officers that the group was going to Yemen to visit religious schools were a cover story. "They never made any contact with the school and had no intention of attending," the affidavit says.
Mehanna was first interviewed by the FBI in December 2006 about his trip to Yemen. It's alleged that he made fraudulent statements about the purpose of the trip and the whereabouts of an associate, Daniel Maldonado. The affidavit says Mehanna told investigators that Maldonado was in Egypt, even though he knew he was in Somalia and had received training for jihad.
According to the indictment, phone records showed that a cell phone number he gave to federal investigators had received several calls from Somalia just days before Mehanna's interview with federal agents.
Maldonado was subsequently captured in Kenya and handed over to U.S. authorities. He is serving a 10-year jail sentence after pleading guilty to receiving military-type training from a foreign terrorist organization.
One of those traveling with Mehanna to Yemen was Ahmad Abousamra. He was also interviewed by FBI agents at the end of 2006, but left Boston on a flight to Syria two weeks later to visit his wife. He is thought to still be in Syria. The criminal complaint says he conspired with Mehanna to provide material support to terrorists.
But the third man, described in the affidavit as cooperating witness CW2, is expected to give evidence at the trial. He traveled with Mehanna and Abousamra as far as the United Arab Emirates and then backed out of the trip. Much later, beginning in late 2006, CW2 recorded a series of conversations with Abousamra and Mehanna on behalf of the FBI. In one of them, according to the affidavit, Mehanna said the trip to Yemen "was a failure, in large part because no one was around. Half the people they wanted to see were on hajj and half were in jail."
CW2's evidence may be critical to the prosecution's case that Mehanna was about more than jihadist sentiments. The affidavit, written by an FBI special agent, says that in 2003 there were "multiple conversations, discussions and preparations" involving Mehanna, Abousamra and the co-operating witness about a "plan to obtain automatic weapons, to go to a shopping mall and randomly shoot people. They were inspired by the success of the Washington, D.C., snipers."
But it was CW2 - not Mehanna - who subsequently went to meet Maldonado "in an attempt to acquire the necessary weapons," according to the affidavit. And the plot was abandoned soon afterward.
Mehanna's brother Tamer said his brother "was targeted ... because he refused to become an informant against the American-Muslim community that he grew up in, worshiped in and with whom he shares strong bonds."
"He was not shy about expressing his opinions. Because, being an American, he of course knew that this was his right; he knew that in America we honor freedom of speech," Tamer said. "And the test for the jury will be whether in America a person can still hold strong views and not be punished for them."
Another supporter, the Rev. Jason Lydon of the Community Church of Boston, said the prosecution of Mehanna is an example of "rampant Islamophobia." Lydon says Mehanna's crime was to express views that his government didn't like.
Over the course of the next several weeks, that will be the theme of defense arguments; while prosecutors will assert that Mehanna's travel and electronic paper trail will amply demonstrate that he was about much more than talk.
Mehanna would face up to life in prison if convicted.
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What is clear is that we need to cleanse the country of Muslims. They are here to terrorize and kill us so the only answer is annihilation of this mutant race. The sooner we recognize and act on it, the better. We need to construct regional execution firing pits and the transportation and receiveing infrastructure to hold them for processing and dispatch not to mention the ovens to cremate the remains.
What a racist remark, that sounds a lot like something a terrorist would say. Genocide....really...your a deuche....I don't ususally side with Muslims principly because I don't know any but in this case I'll make an exception .........your kind of hate mongering is exactly what is wrong with this country today....I wish I knew your name so I could report you for terrorism. We don't exterminate an entire race of people because of a few bad examples. I'm guessing you are either an ignorant child or and idiot racist. I
We need to send a clear message and let it be known that freedome of speach is fine, but if You talk against our government, we will come after You with all the resiurces in our arsenal. Just let these people get it through their think heads that if they want to make waves, bad things might result. I cant wait to shoot some occupier protesters some day if they put me on a shift to defend my city against these thugs. I will shoot to kill and I am good at head shots as that is how I practice.
All this talk about first amendment rights is empty without some rudimentary understanding of how cases involving this amendment have been adjudicated and what legal scholars have written over the years.
The first amendment to the US constitution was ratified in 1791. It had a limited focus. But the Supreme Court ruled in 1925 that the fourteenth amendment applied to the first amendment therefore not only did it include the US government but also the state and local governments.
The freedom of speech part of the first amendment has been tempered over the years with the utilization of the "harm principle". If you read "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill you see where the term "harm principle" becomes relevant.
In Schenck v. United States, in 1917 the Supreme Court unanimously upheld Schenck's conviction. And all Schenck did basically was to belong to the Socialist party and he actively opposed the draft during WWI.
There are many cases where the "harm principle" takes precedence over freedom of speech. The American groups that have been cited by people on this thread have been convicted of crimes when they violated the harm principle.
Having said that and not knowing the evidence against the defendants it would be prudent to withheld comment until the case has gone completely through the legal system which of course includes the Supreme Court.
Did he have some kind of plot in action?
Has he murdered anyone?
Are his thoughts and wishes now considered crimes?
I suppose you would rather have people like this keep their ideas hidden where you have no idea what they really think and who you should watch for.
Agree – "The silence induced by political correctness must be broken in order to deal effectively with the threats posed by Islamic radicalism." Support leaders who stand up against political correctness and call a spade a spade. This man is promoting and supporting terrorism as dictated by his chosen social/political/religious system – Islam! Wake up, America!
This has nothing to do with political correctness. It's about balancing the most important right our country provides with the very important issue of safety and security. If he didn't openly condone murder, lie to authorities, or slander someone, then it's not a clear-cut crime.
The guy was exercising his right of free speech, and everyone goes nuts. When the government passes laws like the Patriot Act to try to combat terrorists by just giving a little more ease into free speech, everyone goes nuts.
Americans have no idea what they want. They don't want to help their country by giving the government the opportunity to better fight terrorists but they don't want terrorist spreading information.
The last I heard, speech that incites violence is a crime
That's what the guy who wrote the book on how to get away with raping children said.
Sedition is not freedom of speech.
"Seditious conspiracy (18 U.S.C. § 2384) is a crime under US law.
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined or imprisoned not less than 20 years, or both. " – Wikipedia
Sometimes we are our own worse enemy. If the prosecution can prove their case to a jury ... then great ... if it's all lies ... it will come out ... The protest are a non-entity in this procedure
Amazing how so many complain about the state of government devised by and implemented by People. Those that attain power usually will do anything to increase their rule over others. I don't know why, maybe we are just hardwired that way. The founding fathers knew this, and said government should fear the people not the other way around. This current president is all lip service to our democratic values while he usurps our liberty. Yet the fact remains. Where is it better???
Bitterjack wrote that being against Muslims could be racist. Duh ... Muslims are not a race. Islam is a religion and Muslims are of several races.
People of the United States of American,
Being the old Vietnam era warhorse that I am,some one needs to enlighten me whether we are really in a state of war with Islamic Fanatic Terrorists or not.Every week I pick up the newspaper and read we caught another Terrorist ploting or having killed more Americans in this country or overseas.At the end of WW II there were still Nazis causing allied casualties in Berlin that would not surrender.When they were found they were just put up against the wall and shot.I am not advocating this without a trial.Executions of these captured Terrorists need to be carried out after a conviction because as in WWII as an example.If you were caugth by the enemy out of uniform behind enemy lines you were considered a spy/sabatour and you were taken out and shot with no trial I might add.To me,
loss of any American life by a Terrorist after what this country has been through needs to be punished by death.
@ pistoya: Wow! Glad you're not in charge of anything important. You probably think that what you're saying sounds concise, logical, well thought out; quite the contrary, you're now most likely beating your hands against the walls of the asylum, claiming to be Henry Kissinger, as the rest of us wonder how you got access to a computer or phone.
To The W.C.P. – those are all great ideas, but they will never work in a million years because human beings are self serving, territorial and a sometiimes violent species. That will never change – it's hard wired in our genes. You'll have to work with a differant species or maybe outer space aliens to acheive those dreams.
So if I am a Muslim I have the right to yell "FIRE!!!" in a crowded movie theater. If anybody says otherwise, you're racist.
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Not happy here,leave no one will stop you. I'm sure anyone wouldl pay your fare to any third world dung heap of your choice
The part where the protesters follow the path of the OWS gang is an indicator that this fellow is up to no good.
Doesn't this guy know that America is perfect, we have God's favored nation status, we have the biggest penises and boobs, we can drink more beers, shoot more guns, and ride more broncos than anyone else? Doesn't he understand that America needs oil? Does he get it that we have bigger bombs than anyone? What is this guy's problem? Has this poor sod not seen FOX News?
How dare they have our oil! How dare they have those precious metals! How dare they have those strategically located nations! How dare the Iraqis allowed those Saudis to take down our towers! Why did Iraq and Afghanistan not stop those Saudis??? Huh? They are all guilty!
By golly, if John Wayne were alive today those folks would not be talking all of that mumbo jumbo, the ole' Duke would blow them away with his six shooters, and ya know what? He would not even get his white hat dirty. God Bless America! The land of the..... er..... wel.l.... God bless America!
Free speech for all white, Christian, Republican, non-bearded and unscary people! Death to the extremists! Healthcare for all...er....uh, um, oops!
the old America, the greatest country on earth was founded by white people. This shit hole that america is now is the result of letting brown people have a say and letting them run wilde.
So are you saying that the White man is somehow superior to others? That reminds me of this guy, he had a funny mustache.
Could not have said it better.
The time has come, for the people of the earth to gather together the greatest minds of this planet, and to devise a self governing system that gives all people a voice in their communties, their towns, their cities, there states or provinces, their country and continent and even in the worlds issues, our forefathers have told us whats wrong yet we ignore their words, if a tree is uprooted it dies, government is the root , money is the evil, so to destroy evil, we must uproot government to allow Gods spirit to reighn on the earth, THE WORLD CONSCIOUS PARTY, the selfgoverning system, the solution to the worlds problems.
What? World conscious party? Huh? Compassion? Sanity? Diversity? Kindness? Open mindedness? Global thinking? Sustainability? Peace??????????
Are you insane? This is AMERICA!!!!
Look at your rants before you call people insane. The KKK and New Black Panthers get to use free speech, and this swine gets one because those groups haven't openly declared war on the US.
Please go to your local community college and register once you get your GED. It may be your last hope.
Oops, that's none not one. hehe
So I can go back to handing out my KKK literature again if he wins?
Yes. You get bet! EXACTLY. ! Free speech means that you can be greatly offended by someone else's ideas. Deal with it or be un-American.
No, no, this only applies minorities. Or more specifically, non-whites – in case whites ever become a minority.
No, you have the right to say what you want as well, you just don't have the spheres to do it.....
The time has come, for the people of the earth to gather together the greatest minds of this planet, and to devise a self governing system that gives all people a voice in their communties, their towns, their cities, there states or provinces, their country and continent and even in the worlds issues, our forefathers have told us whats wrong yet we ignore their words, if a tree is uprooted it dies, government is the root , money is the evil, so to destroy evil, we must uproot government to allow Gods spirit reighn on the earth, THE WORLD CONCIOUS PARTY, the selfgoverning system the solution to the worlds problems.
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The time has come, for the people of the earth to gather together the greatest minds of this planet, and to devise a self governing system that gives all people a voice in their communties, their towns, their cities, there states or provinces, their country and continent and even in the worlds issues, our forefathers have told us whats wrong yet we ignore their words, if a tree is uprooted it dies, government is the root , money is the evil, so to destroy evil, we must uproot government to allow Gods spirit reighn on the earth, THE WORLD CONCIOUS PARTY, the selfgoverning system the solution to worlds problems.
Don't know the political leanings of the attorneys (nor do you), but defending the US constitution is an obligation for any US member of the bar.
Yet if an American were to develop and distribute literature detailing how to kill this man and many Americas with his ideals, they would be charged with hate crimes. Free speech and the Constitution would have nothing to do with it. Lawyers only use the Constitution for their convenience. It's only an obligation if it helps them.
If these American Jihadis want to kill Americans, why don't they just step in front of a bus?
Heh. Good one!
Frankly, as long as there's no real connection to any actual terrorists meaning stuff the FBI would nail him for INSTEAD of this, he should get off scott free.
We need to be an open society to the point where say a gun toting (non-loaded) nutbag is tolerated till he shoots somebody.
Simply put, the "Free Speech" and "innocent until proven guilty" and all the other Enlightenment/Revolutionary stuff we have is both a flip of the finger to the King of England but a statement that is meant to push our society apart from the old systems. If we give this up we admit to every king, terrorist, despot etc. that they were right; "Might makes right and ideals are paper thin lies to pretend righteousness."
The United States did not invent the principle of presumption of innocence.
Send him back to camel jockey land. He can serve as target practice for US troops, or blow himself up and kill 20 of his own kind in the process. stupid idiot, wtf is he doing here if he hates the USA so much?
Just to be clear: he's an American citizen. He grew up in Connecticut. Sending him back to his own kind means sending him back to Sudbury.
Nah send this traitor to somaila. You should lose ALL legal protection once you are convicted of terror crimes.
I bet if he went to Somolia, he'd be running around crying with his tail between his legs in no time...lol. Maybe that would make him wish he was back in rich prick Sudbury, MA, USA and he'd realize what an idiot trailor he'd been.
Oh well, whatever prison time this dude gets, he'll be doing it in protective custody. I'm sure the boys at Shirley Max would chase him out of general pop.
so where do we send the militia's and american "freedom fighters"; last I checked they want to overthrow the government and kill people too, but they, along with the KKK, white supremacists and a myriad of other hate groups get protection under the Constitution because they "haven't actually done anything yet except talk and spread pamphlets, etc"
Metal Head, you've just proven the point of one of my posts. You have called for violence to be done to a fellow American. That makes you guilty of terrorism, if he is.
True Americans don't act like this idiot, v-mag. He may have been born in the USA, but he is as Un-American as they get.
I suggest that what is un-American is the denial of free speech. I am gratified that you are not being prosecuted for calling for violence against this man. A real American upholds the rights of all Americans, because that way, s/he can be sure to have those rights preserved.
There is a difference between free speech and conspiracy to commit murder. Political correctness has rendered some incapable of that distinction.
I enjoyed Evangelion 1.0. I'm not crazy about mecha anime, but this one has an intuigring storyline and the animation is quite good. It doesn't surprise me that San Franciscoans have a great movie option like the Viz Cinema (I want!), but I never would have thought I'd feel stirrings of envy towards people who live in South Bend. That workshop on making trailers sounds great!
There is no doubt in my mind that this guy is guilty of trying to terrorize the people of our country.
This BOZO and all his freinds needs to be shipped to Iran or Somilia to join the rest of his coharts
I'm not so sure it's his views or what he said that got him in trouble so much. It doesn't seem to be a freedom of speech issue. It's the fact that he tried to receive terrorist training. And that at one point he plotted to shoot up a mall. Those are ummmmmmm, well. Bad things. Lying to the FBI ummmmmm another bad thing. It's not rocket science. It's not a grey area. Those are things that are clearly punishable under the law. He had to have known that before he did those things.
Some of those things can be successfully prosecuted. The problem seems to be that actual evidence for those acts is somewhat thin on the ground.
This is nothing more than a defensive tactic by his lawyers. It will fail. 😉
If translating and subtitling someone else's words are all the prosecution has, I wouldn't be so sure. It isn't very clear from the article exactly what evidence they have of other possible crimes, but disseminating odious views isn't a crime.
This guy is toast, it's guys like this that keeps the need for the patriot act around.
defense lawyers r thee scum of the Earth' You should not be able 2 raise a defence if its fabricated as was casey anthonys (tell me why George does not bring charges against Baiz ) there a bunch of snaKES SLITERING on the ground .
The so-called Patriot Act took away many constitutionally guaranteed rights, and now we can't even recognize a clear-cut case of free speech rights violation like this one. We now have corporations that enjoy rights only meant for humans, and we allow that travesty to stand. The people sworn to uphold the Constitution are the ones who've taken away the Bill of Rights, and yet we keep re-electing them. Not too surprising, since they have unlimited funds to promote themselves, thanks to the generous donations of those same corporations. Eventually, the Extreme Court will define our Constitutional rights out of existence, in the name of patriotism and the welfare of the country.
FWIW, the treatment of corporations as individuals dates back several hundred years, roughly to Italy during the late Middle Ages. It began as and remains a means by which corporations are held responsible for their actions in the same way that individual citizens would be. It is the legal framework which allows criminal prosecution, for example, of Dow Chemical board members for the Bhopal catastrophe, and a thousand other instances in recent years where the anonimity and impersonal nature of a corporation have been swept aside by the law and both criminal and civil charges successfully prosecuted against them. Corporations, in fact, would like nothing better than to bring this ancient framework up for change, which they could manipulate through political ties to their advantage. Be careful what you condemn and what you wish for.
I'm aware that the roots of this odious concept go back a long way, although corporations as we know them today clearly did not exist before the mid-19th century. The idea has been carried to an extreme in this right-wing era, and that's what I object to. It's like the sign said, "I'll believe a corporation is a person when Texas executes one."
corporations in today's world are primarily a means for business owners to protect their personal assets from being claimed should the corporation be held accountable for bad deeds or overextend themselves financially...Limited Liability for the persons actually responsible for criminal behaviour. Granting them citizen status does nothing but provide corporations more protections than individuals in our criminal courts, bankruptcy courts or tax courts...when accountants that pad balance sheets to get preferred loans, creatively show losses while still paying dividends and bonuses and solicit public funds for bad or non-existent research are held PERSONALLY responsible for their activities, they should not have the same protections granted by our constitution to man, woman or child! Its just another sell out by our 2-party leadership...2 heads of the same serpent!
Patriot Act didn't take away your rights...you gave them up if you don't have them. Exercise them, contest any unconstitutional activity against you. Laws are only as good as their legal challenge. I know because I've been successful in suing state government for violation of 4th amendment rights as they were snooping for someone else's wrongs.
Agreed .... unless there is more to this .... it sounds like B....S
What angers me is the fact that this terrorist and all of his Muslim supporters from his neighborhood are essentially spitting in the eye of a country that has given them better lifes and more opportunities than any of their middle eastern countries would have. Some of them may have been receiving US government benefits, and there may be some illegal aliens, but that doesn't matter because they're going to be hypocrites anyway. God rot them.
The same thing can be said of a lot of KKK members. And of a disturbing number of Congressmen during the McCarthy debacle. It's understandable that you're angry, but sadly this isn't a new phenomenon.
If it were up to the ACLU performing terrorist acts would be considered free speech. "I am simply acting on my right to display my political and religious views by blowing up the pre-school full of Zionists!" Free speech, OK, fomenting treason is still treason.
The issue here, though, seems to be that no actual terrorist acts were committed or even planned. The prosecution's case, at least as outlined in this article, seems a bit thin in that regard, but perhaps there's more to it than is being reported.
you are typical biggot
Who ever is this crazy should be put in a mental ward for life. I can't believe you want the United States to get blow up. You must work for the Right-Wing C.I.A. It's sad that people are actually scared enough to listen and agree with freedom of speech like yours. It's a sad day in America when Nazi's like you run our country and infiltrate a peaceful America. Stop the wars, stop the indescriminate killings that are giving America a baf name in the world. I fell sorry for people like you not enough love in your life. So now you want to blow everyone up. Death and destruction are the only thing that excites people like you. Well just because you live in Hell doesn't mean we all want too. True American's for peace and understanding!
Free speech does not include encouraging or instructing others to commit felony crimes. This man has no case and the people defending him are deluded.
Actually, it does include those things. The latter is only slightly gray in that it would be criminal to actually give instruction as an active participant in a planned crime. But simply distributing the information is not illegal, and trip to Amazon will quickly put this idea to rest, starting with "The Anarchist's Cookbook" which has been in publication for several decades.
I see posts here daily wherein people call for violence against individuals with whom they disagree. Should these posters be tracked down and prosecuted? How many times has some poster here said that so-and-so should be taken out and shot, or worse? That's free speech, buddy. You may not like it when it's directed at your side, but nevertheless, it is a right guaranteed under the First Ammendment. It appears that the subject of this article did nothing but write his opinions and translate some foreign language material. That's protected, and the fact that he's being prosecuted serves to intimidate Americans who wish to express unpopular opinions.
The thing about unpopular opinions is that they have a way of becoming more popular. I spent considerable time and energy organizing and participating in protests against the Iraq invasion several years ago. We had lots of hecklers, but now, people who think Iraq should not have been invaded are in the majority. Same thing happened with the Vietnam war.
That's the line that the facts have to prove. I hope they put this guy away for SOMETHING, but citizens do have the right to say (but not do) really bad things. The First Amendment guarantees free speech without state interference, but that stops if one is attempting to commit a crime. Encouraging a crime through speech is a little grey under constitutional law. Its the constitution...It defines our country and guarantees our freedom and identity...But sometimes it ends up protecting people who believe in repulsive things. I just hope the feds gathered enough evidence to convict him of a crime.
Posted on Ok while I would never go to the lengths of aclltuay sticking my kid inside of a turkey when my youngest was born, and ALWAYS ASLEEP, I was terribly tempted to set a big ol' apple in her maw and put her to sleep on the table dressed in pink. Oink oink!
And yet what do they do about the people conspiring and encouraging others to bomb clinics, assault and kill doctors, etc...? Oh, I forgot... thats not terrorism because they are white christians.
I don't know of a single white Christian who advocates bombing or killing anybody. That's a media myth that you have been sucked into. I can guarantee you that is not a universal or common belief for 99.99% of every real Christian.
While many don't consider Evangelicals to be Christians, a disturbingly large number of them hold those very views and have proven that they are willing to act on them.
Actually every president that has used military action falls into this category. Every member of congress that supports legislation that allows military action falls into this category. Everyone that believes in "smyte thy enemy" from every pulpiit across America falls into this category.
Each of the above listed groups, in public – proclaim to be christians. It is seen on TV, in the media and at every campaign rally at election time. christiians are one of the most militaristic organizations in the world.
The tool drawer is short a rusty knife....
Being an American citizen, you are responsible for many many murders, bombings, terrorist activites, etc. You just prefer to ignore your involvement, and at the very least complacency, in what the American government has carried out in YOUR name over and over again...
Actually planning a crime and conspiring with others to commit it is illegal no matter who or what is involved, and there have been hundreds of prosecutions of clinic protestors over the years who have strayed outside the confines of protest into the criminal realm.
Man, people like you are dumber than dirt. You people try to equate christian terrorism with islamic terrorism.....fukin moron. Since 9/11 or even before that, how many abortion clinic bombings were there? I bet you could count them on one hand. Now, in that same time, how many people have died because of islamic terrorism??? Do I need to explain this any clearer Mr. mentally challenged? It's not even a close comparison.
Freedom of speech? Try using the n word while addressing a black police officer and see how free you are. Freedom is freedom and accordning to the dictionary defination there is no such thing as freedom in this country or any other.
Freedom of speech comes with no guarantee of agreement with speech. The particular case you're describing is completely legal, and any attempted prosecution of mere utterance would be laughed out of court even before the prelims. That doesn't mean that anyone is going to like it, or the utterer, though. But it isn't a crime.
SixDegrees is correct.
FREE SPEECH, Why not, when here in America the KKK can come to someone else's home like a black person and burn a cross on that person's lawn and the courts including the Supreme Court calls this exercising their legal rights of expression, or when a group of racist rowdy whites rough up & harass a black family and the judge calls it GOOD OLE BOYS HAVING FUN. How in the hell could this be any worse. Maybe, like when the rich 70 yr old Frenchman rapes the African Maid, but it was not rape simply because she lied on application to enter USA
you are dumb as fuck
Same to u, john smith
I agree with john, and I'm black. Please STFU. you are making us look bad 😉
tisk tisk. you are stretching the reality of law here in your assessment. the KKK, as vile as they are, do have a right to spew their message of ignorance and hatred under the constitutional rights of free speech and expression. however, lighting fires, harrassment, and disturbing the peace are acts of freedom of expression that violate the law. see the difference?
Jomo, you're an idiot. Go read some books on the First Amendment and you will see that not all speech is protected.
Just more crybaby reverse racism that we're all used to and expect from you nigs
In a strange twist the crazy opinion he's stating is what everyday Americans mention when it comes moral issues like abortion and pornography – so to hear his defense actually isn't anything new and perhaps it serves us right for using "Freedom of Speech" to defend even the most offensive acts...
We defend freedom of speech because the Constitution holds it to be a fundamental right that is a requirement of a functioning Democracy. The downside is that speech which is odious is every bit as protected as that with which we agree. Crimes, on the other hand, are attributable to actions, not thoughts or opinions.
It's amazing how the uber-liberal lawyers who are defending this guy rationalize their "defense". Not sure how they sleep at night.
How do u know they r liberals? If u r assuming, u should assume the same for a lawyer using same argument defending kkk or anti us govt extremist like tim mcveigh.
it is also amazing you fail to realize that as an American citizen he has the right to representation in his defense, a right that every American citizen has under the protection of our Miranda rights. the day we abandon our core beliefs in the justice system for 'special cases' is more damaging to America than any attack this guy could carry out.
LOL...I'm a lawyer and interact with hundreds of lawyers every week....I will tell you the vast majority are NOT UBER-LIBERAL, in fact, if anything, its quite the opposite
Sincerely hope Pistoya's description of that sort of police state is some vague sarcasm.
What hope do we have when a Texas DA prosecutes a Border Patrol agent and allows the criminal to go free. We have a disgusting justice system which is matched by our equally disgusting political system.
Lets first fix those problems and then correct all the other issues that are corrupting America.
Awesome post! i agree w/you and what I would like to see is THE PEOPLE TAKIING BACK THE POWER that has been given to congress (or did they just take it?) Anyway I woudl like to see a TOTAL OVER HAUL OF CONGRESS. Everyone of those rep.'s and senators out! PEOPLE WE HAVE THE POWER IF WE EXERCISE IT!! And we exercise it by VOTING ALL OF THEM OUT OF OFFICE!! I don't care what party they are affiliated with OUT OUT OUT!!
Sorry for getting off base here.
People it's in the constitution...
Your freedom of speech ends at encouraging illegal activity, Slander, Libal, treason and sedition...
In other words your free speech ends as soon as you get "Threatening, UnAmerican, or violent."
Not exactly. But more to the point, he's also claiming the words weren't his, that what he did was translate an al Quaida training manual into English and post it, and that he does not share the sentiments expressed in it. We'll see what the prosecution has to say about that, but if true there's little he's guilty of other than being a jerk.
Why would he be translating a (jihad) or al quaida manual?? Do you think he just wanted to show people what they are saying? i don't think so. It seems like he wanted to know what to do as a home grown terrorist. And it is true we will see what the WITNESS has to say at the trial. He was actually there, and we are very fortunate that this person came forward.
UnAmerican speech is illegal?
Did you think before you posted that?
Not exactly. I forget the name involved, but there was a supreme court case where they determined that a KKK member was only exercising free speech when he said that they should lynch black people. Because at the rally he was not taking measures to follow up on those threats, it was protected. Had he been passing out baseball bats and torches it would not have been protected.
Very GOOD POST!! You have totally shown the difference between the two. On one hand the guy just made a statement, on the other hand the guy WENT TO the middle east w/the intention of JOINING UP W/a jihad group. BIG DIFFERENCE!!
Freedom of speech is restricted when it is threatening, you're speech can be as unpatriotic as it can be and you can even burn the flag and even that won't get you into any trouble.
Sorry dude that was before and this is B5, it is NOW illegal to burn the American flag. I was not sure if it was passed by congress, but I think it passed when congress was a majority of republicans, with a republican President. Correct me if I am wrong, and I do apologize if I am.
Our country is infested with terrorists, which is why we need a much more comprehensive militarized police force. We need to depoly drones countrywide instead of just in Houston and allow them to carry hellfire missiles like they do in other theaters. Smart small munitions arent enough. Most importantly, we need to indemnify all or our men and women in uniform who might inadverdently involved in a collateral casualty regrettably as they are sometimes.
I am certain that you just got out of a psychiatric ward. Or atleast you need to be in one.
You need to see a shrink–You hateful biggot
No, no, no–Its 3 of the pink pills and 1 of the yellow pills–NOT 1 of the pink pills and 3 of the yellow pills!!!!
Our government should be able to crush any dissent without accountability. If you disagree with me, you must be a terrorist.
Well now that the USA can kill any USA citizen without a trial if suspected of being a terrorist.....it is not the USA anymore.


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At last night's "Stories & Beer Fireside Chat", TriplePundit's Founder, Nick Aster, talked with Sara Santiago, Phil Covington, and Miriam Swaffer about the issue of deforestation, and how companies and NGOs are working together to end it.
In the past two years, we've seen rapid and unanticipated changes in the forestry sector, as prominent pulp, paper, and palm oil suppliers have committed to zero-deforestation policies. These commitments were made, in large part, due to years of strategic campaigning by international and local NGOs. In 2014, many brands have in turn adopted zero-deforestation policies. As a result, we are seeing a new norm of zero-deforestation in supply chains, launching us into a global movement toward protecting the rainforests of Southeast Asia.
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Phil Covington holds an MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School. In the past, he spent 16 years in the freight, transportation and logistics industry. Last year, Phil toured part of Indonesia's Sumatran rainforest, as well as Asia Pulp and Paper's plantation forest and paper mill. The trip, facilitated by Future500, was to learn about APP's Forest Conservation Policy, a key element of which is thir commitment to zero natural forest clearing. Today, Phil's writing focuses on deforestation, electric vehicles and sustainable business matters in general. Twitter: @PhilCovBlog
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Harry Reid Rejects Calls to Punt on 'Fiscal Cliff'
A conciliatory Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid issued a call for compromise during the lame-duck session that starts next week, while signaling personal opposition to any GOP attempts to put off a decision on the nation's fiscal challenges.
"I'm not for kicking the can down the road. I think we've done that far too much," the Nevada Democrat said. "We know what the issue is; we need to solve it."
"I think we should just roll up our sleeves and get it done," Reid said of an agreement to avert the tax rate increases and automatic spending cuts looming at year's end.
While Reid says the issue should be addressed during the lame-duck session set to begin next week, Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) and other Republicans have signaled that a "grand bargain" may not be possible until after the new Congress convenes next year. Reid said he spoke with Boehner this morning and did not expect that either one of them would draw firm "lines in the sand" at this point.
"The American people want solutions — and tonight, they've responded by renewing our majority," Boehner said Tuesday night. "With this vote, the American people have also made clear that there is no mandate for raising tax rates."
On that, Boehner and Reid seem to be in disagreement, although the distinction between tax rates and tax revenues may provide both sides with some wiggle room moving forward.
"There was a message sent to us by the American people," Reid said. "People making all this money have to contribute a little bit more. And, all the exit polling, all of the polling we've done — the vast majority of people support that, including rich people."
Reid said Democrats do not want to play games with an increase in the debt ceiling that will be required early next year to prevent a federal default.
"If they want to go through that again, fine," Reid said of Republicans on the debt ceiling stalemate last year.
Reid also said he spoke to President Barack Obama on election night and was encouraged by Obama's message about working through the looming challenges.
Aside from the "fiscal cliff," Reid discussed a couple of agenda items for the next Congress, including another attempt at an immigration overhaul. Exit poll data showed Obama winning roughly 70 percent of the Latino vote nationally, according to NBC News, but Reid said Republicans should be on board with immigration legislation not just because of the trouble the GOP has had appealing to that growing voting bloc.
Reid referenced Arizona GOP Sen. John McCain's past work on an immigration bill with the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.). Reid said the immigration overhaul would be near the top of his agenda for the 113th Congress, but it needs GOP support. "We're going to have some votes on it," he said.
He also said the Senate's operating procedures will need to change in the new Congress to blunt GOP legislative blockades. But he firmly ruled out eliminating filibusters altogether.
"I think that the rules have been abused and that we're going to work to change them. We're not going to do away with the filibuster, but we're going to make the Senate a more meaningful place," Reid said. Sources have indicated that Reid may push a rules change that requires Senators with objections to hold the floor if they seek to block an agenda item, a change from the current practice where Senators can anonymously place holds on legislation and nominees.
Asked about potential environmental legislation in the wake of superstorm Sandy, Reid referenced recent severe storms and his experience running the Environment and Public Works Committee.
"Climate change is an extremely important issue for me, and I hope we can address it reasonably at some point," Reid said.
The Nevada Democrat also addressed one parochial issue — his relationship with home-state colleague Dean Heller (R). Heller won a full Senate term on Tuesday, beating out Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley. Reid's political apparatus was relentless in attacking Heller, but Reid nonetheless said he expected to be able to work with his colleague over the long term.
"Dean Heller and I have been friends for 25 years," Reid said, noting that Heller served as secretary of state in Nevada when Reid had his tight election battle against Republican John Ensign in 1998. Ensign later won the Senate seat now held by Heller and entered into a nonaggression pact with Reid, working on a variety of home-state issues until his resignation under an ethics cloud last year.
Reid dismissed talk about a riff with Heller over an Internet gambling measure before the elections.
"As far as big blow-ups, that's so minor in my life," Reid said.


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I am too tired to post anything coherently. With the death threats, it's been a bit crazy. I can assure all of you that I will not be intimidated. I will also say that I think it's time to spend some time with Ray Price.
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Clayton and a birthday cookie skillet from Afton Tavern
For Clayton's 37th birthday, we went out to Afton Tavern to celebrate. The Stewart family joined us. We gave him some new shoes and golf pants but the coolest gift came from his mom. It was a 1983 coffee bean roaster, lol. Yes, I know that it sounds like a crappy gift but you have no idea. CJ has been roasting his own coffee beans for a while now using a popcorn machine from the early 80s (he had to do some conversions to make it work). If you want to know how, google it. Newer machines don't work as well as the old ones so there is a marketplace on ebay for old popcorn poppers to be used as roasters. Seriously. They really do work! We have a nice Jura espresso machine and it serves the homemade roasted beans well. Anyway, his mom managed to find an actual vintage roaster from the same time. It has been interesting comparing it to his rigged up version. His sister sent him some green Kona beans to roast and they are soooo good.
I have been hosting Thanksgiving almost every year since we started dating in 1997. To say that I have this down to a fine art, is an understatement. You should see my crazy turkey day spreadsheets. Heck if I will ever just wing it. As long as I follow my plan, everything turns out perfect. I go big so there is usually enough to feed a small army. This year, I changed up the sweet potatoes, fruit salad, and corn. These dishes were so much better this go round. Here are the new recipes that I used:
My parents came to spend Thanksgiving with us and ended up taking the kids back home with them for the weekend. We took advantage of our alone time by heading down to Matthews. I had been wanting Clayton to experience the Carolina Beer Temple for some time now. I had discovered it with my friend Jessica a while back and knew he would love it. We were hungry when we arrived so we went to Royal Cafe & Creperie next door first. Our first crepe was a delicious Philly cheese steak one followed by caramel apple pie crepe. The one shown in the pic is the dessert one. Both crepes were so big that we split them both. At the Carolina Beer Temple, CJ had a Mexi-Cali stout from Bird Song in Charlotte and I had Cold Mountain from Highland Brewing Company in Asheville. Yum!


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Jeff Merkley is continuing to expand his lead in his quest to defeat Gordon Smith for reelection to the US Senate. He has a 59-37 advantage with those who have already voted and he's winning 45-39 with independents. This race has been universally headed in Merkley's direction for weeks now and it's probably too late for Smith to turn it around.
In Oregon's races for Secretary of State and Treasurer the Democrats lead. Kate Brown is up 51-40 for the former office, and Ben Westlund is up 47-41 for the latter.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton says she has not decided whether she will run for president in 2016, but the battle over her public record is already being fought on television.
David Brock, who is the founder of Media Matters — a liberal watchdog group — and who is one of Mrs. Clinton's most ardent defenders, has written an e-book titled "The Benghazi Hoax." He plans to advertise it on the Fox News Channel, the outlet he says has been the most vocal in its criticism ...


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The 20th anniversary of La Ruta de los Conquistadores kicked off with a bang Thursday as 500 riders departed from Jaco on Costa Rica's Pacific coast on the way to the Caribbean, where they will finish 161 miles later on Saturday.
The men's elite field was won by Costa Rica's Paolo Montoya, who covered stage one's 68 miles and 12,000 feet of climbing in 5:01:19. Defending race champ Todd Wells finished in 5:03:27, 2 minutes 8 seconds behind Montoya, who won La Ruta in 2004.
In her first time racing La Ruta, American was the fastest woman, finishing the day in the top-20 with a time of 5:54:11.
Stage one ended badly for last year's second-place finisher, Rom Akerson of Costa Rica. Akerson was disqualified for taking aid outside authorized feed zones. The decision by Costa Rican Cycling Federation officials means American Alex Grant moves into third place 10 minutes 1 second behind Montoya.


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Gold Striker Coming to California's Great America in 2013
California's Great America just announced their 2013 roller coaster Gold Striker. The new wooden roller coaster was designed by Great Coasters International (GCI). It will be located in the Celebration Plaza section of the park and it will wrap around the Star Tower. Gold Striker will be the park's eighth roller coaster and its first new roller coaster in more than a decade.
Gold Striker's theme is a reference to the California Gold Rush of 1849. The ride begin with a 103-foot first drop. Then, it will thrill riders with its high-speed twists, turns, and a station fly-by on its 3,197-foot long ride. Gold Striker will top out at a speed of 54 miles per hour.
While Gold Striker has been custom-made for Great America's terrain. Coaster enthusiasts may see the ride's similarities to other GCI woodies like American Thunder at Six Flags St. Louis, Apocalypse at Six Flags Magic Mountain, and even Thunderhead at Dollywood. These roller coasters have been well-received so there's no reason to thing Gold Striker won't do just as well.
Here's a video of California's Great America's Gold Striker:
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Cory Monteith remained down to earth even after big break
In January of 2009, a Fox publicist approached me at the network's semi-annual Television Critics Association party in Pasadena, Calif. Would I like to meet a promising young Canadian, he asked. "This guy is going to be a big star."
I'd heard that one before, but kept an open mind as this tall young man extended his hand. "Hi," he said. "I'm Cory Monteith."
Monteith made a very positive first impression, well-mannered and polite — what American reporters would describe as a typical Canadian.
He confessed that he felt a bit awkward and out of place at the Fox party. "I saw Kiefer Sutherland earlier and I was a little star struck," he said. "I saw Jon Voight just a moment ago. I was going to talk to him but didn't have the guts."
Monteith was about to take his own rocket ride to fame. He was cast as William McKinley High School football quarterback Finn Hudson on Glee, which premiered a few months later and became an instant hit, spawning chart-topping radio hits, sold-out stage shows and tours of foreign countries. It made household names out of Monteith, Lea Michele and the other young stars.
The actor would joke later about how the series turned a lumbering, non-singer, non-dancer — teased on the set as "Frankenteen" (the nickname later became his Twitter handle) — into a singing, dancing star.
More heartening to those of us covering his career was the transformation that did not occur. Despite the sudden fame at a relatively young age, Monteith remained very down to earth, honest and unaffected at every single press tour appearance. There was nary a hint of the struggles and turmoil within.
What a shock, then, to hear of his death, at 31, Saturday in a Vancouver hotel room.
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Monteith kept his demons well hidden. He would occasionally drop hints that his life in Vancouver had been less than ideal. By the time he came to Toronto to host the 2010 Gemini Awards, where he was proud to be associated with a push to create a National Youth Homelessness Awareness Day in Canada, he was ready to speak candidly about his own near-homelessness and addictions.
Even this truth was hard to accept. The clean-cut Calgary-native was so well cast as the all-American football hero. That he was neither American nor a football player was almost as hard to accept as the fact he was not so clean cut.
Not only was Monteith never a high school football star, he barely went to high school. After his parents split up when he was seven, he dropped out in Grade 9 and never went to university. For a while, he took odd jobs as a Wal-Mart greeter, a roofer, even working at a car wash.
His pursuit of an acting career took him to Vancouver, where he endured poverty and rejection. "I definitely experienced a marginalized situation. I was not homeless but I was definitely at risk," he told me in 2010.
Monteith was around 20 when things were at their low point. He says it was acting teacher Andrew McIlroy, who mentored him, gave him direction and got him passionate about an acting career. He also credits his "Vancouver acting collectives," the other young hopefuls who provided family-like support. "That's pretty much where I grew up, where I moved from one period to another, from treading water dangerously to really getting excited about something."
When his big break arrived, Monteith knew something about life, value and opportunity. Told the Glee producers in L.A. wanted to see him in person after an audition tape was submitted, he jumped in his car and drove 20 hours straight from Vancouver. He raced his 2006 Honda Civic all the way down the Pacific coast, "speeding excessively fast down the I-5," he said. He stopped once in a McDonald's parking lot in southern Oregon, passing out "for like an hour or so. I cut it pretty close."
He made it in time and walked into a room filled with Fox executives plus Glee creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. They were having a hard time finding an actor to play the quarterback, somebody with the right mix of high school jock and sensitivity and openness, both humble and proud.
"I nailed it. I knew I nailed it," Monteith remembered. "When you walk in to the room, the heads of Fox … of course it's a little unnerving," he said. "Then you realize they're all waiting for you. It's kind of flattering in a way."
Glee had a killer schedule. At its peak, the young actors worked seven days a week learning dance routines, recording songs, rehearsing lines. In his rare down time, Monteith would burn off steam as a drummer and back-up singer in his band.
Co-stars and producers always had good things to say about him. Some singled him out as the heart of the show.
His life did change. The Honda was traded for an Audi. He found dating a challenge, with paparazzi following him in and out of restaurants. "Life does become a little more challenging," he said.
Monteith had been at a rehab treatment centre as recently as April. His death is as tragic and senseless as anyone's whose life is cut short by addiction.
His sudden passing is every parent's worst nightmare. If there is any comfort for his family, it may be that he saw his opportunity and seized it, making the most of a complex, sensitive role. It was how he conducted himself off-screen, however, that I'll always remember. It was always easy to be proud of Cory Monteith.