Obama Declares War on Free Speech

by Robert Spencer
Human Events.com
October 8, 2009

https://www.legal-project.org/498/obama-declares-war-on-free-speech

Excerpt:

The Obama Administration has now actually co-sponsored an anti-free speech resolution at the United Nations. Approved by the U.N. Human Rights Council last Friday, the resolution, cosponsored by the U.S. and Egypt, calls on states to condemn and criminalize "any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence."

What could be wrong with that? Plenty.

First of all, there's that little matter of the First Amendment, which preserves Americans' right to free speech and freedom of the press, which are obviously mutually inclusive.  Any law that infringed on speech at all -- far less in such vague and sweeping terms -- would be unconstitutional.

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