Comments on: The Solomonic State Censors Speech https://barelyablog.com/the-solomonic-state-censors-speech/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Tim https://barelyablog.com/the-solomonic-state-censors-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:33:33 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=248#comment-113 We should not censor this stuff (or anything else) in America. It’s terror, it’s not tolerant…yada…yada..BS. It is free speech. All this does is get us off the REAL SUBJECT MATTER.

Why would we let Muslims migrate to this country? They all have the desire to watch this nonsense and the tendency to believe it. The vast majority of Muslims I grew up around watch this stuff incessantly on the Internet etc.

I am an expert on Muslims. I have a practical PhD in Islam. I grew up in Dearborn MI [and myself in the Middle-East]. Nothing going on these days with Muslims has caught me off guard. These fools that think they can ‘change Islam’ and make it a ‘play nice’ religion are naive at best. They are the equivalent of the poor women who gets abused by her husband and still thinks she can change him and make him play nice. These women usually end up dead. Tolerance is death and we deserve what WE tolerate.

And if you disagree with me. You can always move to a growing Muslim area and live around them and let your kids go to school with them for a couple decades. Please do not post about some nice Muslim named Abdul that you met at some cultural awareness festival. That is a con 8 times out of 10. Islam is a religion of peace??? Where??? I have never seen it. Someone show me where on this planet that religion is peaceful. As soon as a country hits critical mass (the point at witch Jihad becomes an Obligation to Muslims. Yes JIHAD is an OBLIGATION to all Muslims)……you will have massive problems. Why should we put Western Civilization in this kind of kind of danger? They cannot in any way carry on our culture or traditions.

Let us vote—or have a referendum—on the matter of immigration from Islamic countires. After all, America is a democracy (or it was).

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By: Stephen W. Browne https://barelyablog.com/the-solomonic-state-censors-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-110 Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:52:14 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=248#comment-110 This brings to mind a conversation I had with a Jewish girl some years ago. She was describing the humiliating (to her) experience of having had a professor who made her read Mein Kampf. She was going on about how he had made her read “that madman” and was somewhat taken aback when I told her, “I’m with him, you ought to read it. And I don’t think Hitler was a madman, at least at first – he was an evil man. There’s a difference.”

During World War II the great Frank Capra was given the job of creating propaganda (in the neutral sense of the term) for the American people, to explain the reasons for the war and its objectives. He made the daring and controversial suggestion that they show our people the propaganda of our enemies, excerpts from The Truimph of the Will et. al.

As one who believes that our civilization is at war, whether we like it or not, I say we need to look at what our enemies are saying and take them seriously when they tell us what they are going to do to us.

That being said, I have to add that I don’t object in principle to preventing our enemies from operating on our territory. But as a practical matter, it makes sense from a number of perspectives to allow them to propagandize freely. Firstly, it displays a confidence in our culture that they may sneer at, but have to find unnerving on some level. And secondly, if we don’t drive them underground then we know where they are when we need to find them.

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By: james huggins https://barelyablog.com/the-solomonic-state-censors-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:49:47 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=248#comment-108 We have been practicing censorship in this country for years. Go to any school library and look for a copy of Huckleberry Finn or a biography of Robert E. Lee. You won’t find one. You can probably find a bio of Fidel Castro or Spike Lee. I’m just amazed that we actually want to censor The Beacon. Unadulterated, vicious anti-israel and probably anti-US propaganda are usually at the top of those civil liberties that any Ivy League trained lawyer worth his or her sheep skin would defend to the death.
Where’s the ACLU? I can’t believe they’re not all over this one.

All that said, I am against censorship in all it’s forms. Certainly, young children should be protected by older and wiser people but beyond that, if someone wants it out there, let it be out there. The readers/watchers must decide whether it’s a message or trash.

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