{"id":21094,"date":"2016-06-18T19:21:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T00:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21094"},"modified":"2016-06-18T19:21:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T00:21:16","slug":"new-york-state-senator-introduces-unconstitutional-anti-free-speech-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21094","title":{"rendered":"New York State Senator Introduces Unconstitutional, Anti-Free Speech Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New York State Senator Introduces Unconstitutional, Anti-Free Speech Legislation<\/a><\/h3>\n
Michael Krieger<\/a><\/span>\u00a0|<\/span>\u00a0Posted\u00a0
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Perhaps the greatest irony of this past year has been the mind numbing and irrational anti-free speech wave that\u00a0swept across facets of so-called \u201cliberal\u201d America.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This regressive movement was most readily\u00a0apparent on college campuses, where hordes of sheltered and emotionally stunted students demanded\u00a0restrictions on free speech in order to prevent themselves from being offended by an ever expanding list of unhappy thoughts and words. However, what is far\u00a0more troubling, albeit much\u00a0less public, are\u00a0attempts by two fascist academic authoritarians, to convince the American citizenry to relinquish their First Amendment rights in the name of fighting ISIS. One of these men is a close advisor to President Obama.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 From last year\u2019s post:\u00a0Glenn Greenwald Confronts American \u201cLiberals\u201d Trying to Destroy Free Speech<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It seems everywhere you turn, U.S. politicians at all levels of government are incessantly\u00a0scheming to figure out ways to further erode the civil liberties of the American public. Earlier this month, a particularly egregious example\u00a0emerged\u00a0from the state of New York. It\u00a0relates to an\u00a0anti-First Amendment executive order issued by Governor Andrew Cuomo, followed one day later by similar legislation introduced by a state Senator. In case you aren\u2019t up to speed on the\u00a0issue, here\u2019s a little background.<\/p>\n

From\u00a0The Huffington Post<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Over the past year, several attempts in the New York legislature to pass laws protecting Israel against the boycotts, divestment and sanctions collectively known as \u201cBDS\u201d have failed.\u00a0BDS<\/a>\u00a0punishes Israel for its illegal occupation of Palestinian lands.\u00a0In an unprecedented end run around the legislative process, Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order this month that would accomplish just what the legislature has refused to do.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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New York State Senator Introduces Unconstitutional, Anti-Free Speech Legislation Michael Krieger\u00a0|\u00a0Posted\u00a0Friday Jun 17, 2016\u00a0at 11:57 am Perhaps the greatest irony of this past year has been the mind numbing and irrational anti-free speech wave that\u00a0swept across facets of so-called \u201cliberal\u201d America. This regressive movement was most readily\u00a0apparent on college campuses, where hordes of sheltered and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1981,2703,4285,6174],"class_list":["post-21094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-free-speech","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21095,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21094\/revisions\/21095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}