Censorship by Florida Cop

A black schoolteacher, Jauhnisha Oliver, was handing out at an anti-gang rally a free magazine she had created that was designed to promote community involvement. Some of kids pictured in it were recognized by a local cop, Gregory Kirk, as gang members. So he took it on himself to obstruct distribution of the magazine. He obviously thought he was cop, judge and jury all rolled up into one. He had certainly never heard of the First Amendment.

So what's one rogue cop, you say? Get this: His police chief, Eugene Savage, is backing him up! "Savage defended Kirk's actions, saying Oliver needed police permission to hand out the magazines"

He will lose though. The NAACP is onto him. Details here






A "Safety" Excuse for Censorship

Arizona State University tried to block a student anti-abortion group from holding a meeting on its grounds to publicize their cause. At first the students were told that it was just not allowed, then they were told that they would have to pay a $350.00 fee.

When the students pointed out that other student groups had not been similarly restricted, the university backed down but then said that the students would have to take out an insurance policy in order to hold their event. That stumped the students so they are now suing the university for violating their free speech rights.

The University's lawyer "said the group wasn't allowed to host the event for safety reasons". Only abortion opponents are "unsafe"? Any idea that the university might DEFEND the free speech of their students against those who would attack it was of course right off the planet. Universities regularly give a lot of lip-service to free speech but the only "free speech" they actually defend is Leftist speech.





Just One Word Can Lose you your Job

But we all know what that word is. If you are black, you can (and probably will) use it all the time but if you are white you must never, never use it, even in anger and only in America. The High Court of Australia has recently ruled that the word "n*gger" is not offensive in Australia.

But an NYC legal employee of apparently Italian extraction used the word in an angry post on his MySpace page and Bloooie! He might as well have murdered someone.

I wonder what would happen if somebody used the word in its original Latin form: "niger". "Niger" is, of course the ordinary Latin word for "black". So anybody who spelt the word with one "g" would have an interesting legal defence.

Details here