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6/5/13, "Free Speech Showdown In Small-Town America,"Atlas Shrugs, Pamela Geller
"All eyes are on Tennessee tonight, as the fight for the very soul of
America comes to a very small town: Manchester, Tennessee, a town no
bigger than 60,000 people. (Almost 2,000 people were there -- that's
three percent of the local population.) This was the perhaps unlikely
venue for a seminar led by a U.S. attorney and an FBI special agent on
how "inflammatory" speech against Muslims violated civil rights laws.
Nowhere was it ever explained how there could be honest examination of
Islam's teachings of jihad that wouldn't be "inflammatory" -- and that
was just the point.
There were close to 800 people filling the small room to way beyond
capacity. The lines were three deep along the wall, with folks spilling
out into the hallways -- plus many hundreds more outside. Those outside
weren't missing much -- unless they were in the mood to be admonished
and hectored as xenophobes, bigots and racists by an Islamic supremacist
spokesman and two Obama officials who steadfastly refused to address
the elephant in the room: the reality of jihad terror and Islamic
supremacism, no matter how many times the boisterous crowd called them
on their nonsense.
U.S. Attorney Bill Killian gave a power point presentation on hate
crimes and hate speech. From beginning to end it was full of
condescension, smears, charges that the crowd was racist, and
thinly-veiled threats that truthful speech about Islam could be
prosecuted. Never once did he address the fact that people aren't
concerned about Muslims because of racism and xenophobia, but because of
the reality of jihad terror and the uniform denial and obfuscation, and
victimhood posturing, that follows from Muslim communities after every
jihad attack. Killian even stooped so low as to claim a sharp rise in
"religiously-motivated hate crimes," without ever informing the crowd
that he was lumping in anti-Semitic hate crimes (which are at worldwide
record levels, largely due to Islamic antisemitism) with anti-Muslim
hate crimes. FBI special agent Kevin Moore was little better. Both
echoed the Islamic supremacist speaker's opening remarks, all about how
the people of Tennessee had to learn to be welcoming of people who were
different."
The crowd was having none of it, shouting "Boston!" "Free Speech!" and
other responses after they would say something entirely ridiculous. A
couple of people in the crowd got up and called out to the patriots to
be quiet and let the speakers speak, and to be respectful, but the crowd
was being just as respectful to Killian, Moore and Co. as the speakers
were to them. It was good to see their condescending anti-freedom
propaganda challenged. The speakers were only accepting questions
written on cards, and people knew it was a horse and pony show. We are
not going to go quietly into the night, or remain silent when we are
lied to. This is just the beginning. We will not go away, we will not be
silenced, and we will never stop fighting." photo above from Atlas Shrugs, more pictures at Atlas Shrugs.
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More great pictures here:
6/5/13, "AFDI Freedom Rally: Nearly 2,000 Patriots Throng to Tennessee to Defend Free Speech," Atlas Shrugs, Pamela Geller
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Comment: It would be almost this bad under the establishment GOP. Which is why the Tea Party came to be. The establishment GOP gave us Obama, are fine with him, love ObamaCare, and despise we the people.
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