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Corporate Media Exploits Teen Idol to Push Cyberbullying Bill
Kurt Nimmo
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
The corporate media has linked teen idol Miley Cyrus, who plays schoolgirl rock star Hannah Montana in the hit Disney series and movie, to an unconstitutional bill now working its way through Congress.
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| Teen idol Miley Cyrus, who plays schoolgirl rock star Hannah Montana, had her feelings hurt, now the corporate media is using her as a poster child for a bill that would effectively criminalize free speech. | |
According to Reuters, Cyrus recently posted an angry tirade on her Twitter web page in response to criticism about her weight. “Those remarks that you hateful people use are fighting words, the ones that scar people and cause them to do damage to themselves or others,” the teenager wrote. “Kids hurt themselves. This is not something to be taken lightly.”
The First Amendment of the Constitution shouldn’t be taken lightly, either. If passed, the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act (HR 1966) would outlaw speech meant to “coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person.” According to the text of the bill, individuals who “bully” others via any electronic means could face fines, two years in prison, or both. Critics call it the Censorship Act of 2009.
As UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh noted on his blog, a number of common situations could be considered felonious under the language of the bill. “I try to coerce a politician into voting a particular way, by repeatedly blogging (using a hostile tone) about what a hypocrite/campaign promise breaker/fool/etc. he would be if he voted the other way. I am transmitting in interstate commerce a communication with the intent to coerce using electronic means (a blog) ‘to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior’ — unless, of course, my statements aren’t seen as ’severe,’ a term that is entirely undefined and unclear,” Volokh wrote.
Volokh’s example is demonstrative. If the bill becomes law it will undoubtedly be used by government and political groups to go after opponents and critics. The Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act is less about assuaging the crushed feelings of teenagers and others easily hurt by insults and taunting than it is about shutting down the free speech of targeted individuals and groups.
The Anti-Defamation League is a strong supporter of the bill. “Research by the Anti-Defamation League found as many as half of U.S. teenagers are affected by cyber-bullying, whether through emails, instant messaging, cellphones, texting or websites, with the anonymity of electronic media emboldening bullies,” reports Reuters.
The ADL is a special interest group dedicated to shutting down the free speech of people accused of defaming the Jewish people and allegedly engaging in bigotry and other forms of racism (incidentally protected by the First Amendment). It is not specifically interested in protecting the feelings of teenagers teased because they are fat.
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The ADL also tracks “extremists” and was instrumental in the production of the Department of Homeland Security’s document characterizing advocates of the Second Amendment, pro-life activists, and returning veterans as “rightwing extremists” deemed a threat to the country.
In March of this year, the ADL described Joe Banister, Tommy Cryer, Pat Shannan, Dave Von Kleist, Jack McLamb, Greg Dixon, Ted Gunderson, and Michael Badnarik as “extremist speakers.”
In April, the group attempted to link talk show host Alex Jones to the accused cop killer Richard Poplawski. “One of Poplawski’s favorite places for such conspiracy theories was the Web site of the right-wing conspiracy radio talk show host Alex Jones. Poplawski visited the site, Infowars, frequently, shared links to it with others, and sometimes even posted to it,” the ADL wrote on its website.
The Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act would allow the ADL and other groups to effectively shut down the First Amendment for individuals they believe promote “hate speech,” that is to say speech not considered politically correct by favored groups (i.e., federally protected minorities). It would allow the government to shut down “hate” radio (conservative, libertarian, and patriot radio) without reimposing the so-called Fairness Doctrine. It would theoretically criminalize talk show hosts such as Alex Jones, Micheal Savage, and others who call for government officials to be arrested and tried for treason.
Moreover, the bill would put a federally-imposed damper on the internet where the democratization of speech is widely accepted, much to the displeasure of the government and protected groups intolerant of criticism.
“Put simply, this legislation would be used as a tool for a judge and jury to determine whether there is significant evidence to prove that a person ‘cyberbullied’ another,” wrote the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Linda Sanchez. “That is: did they have the required intent, did they use electronic means of communication, and was the communication severe, hostile, and repeated?”
Free speech — especially free political speech — is often severe, hostile, and repeated. If enacted, the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act would turn passionate and even vehement political speech into a crime punishable by two years in prison.
According to the founders, political speech was the only kind of free speech that government was strictly required to permit, as free speech is a natural right. Ten of the fourteen early state constitutions or Declarations of Rights, including the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution, name freedom of speech and the press as a fundamental right.
Rep. Linda Sanchez and the supporters of this bill would deny that natural and god-given right.
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May 19th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
gee, wouldn’t want to hurt that spoiled bitches feelings, now would we? fuck them all. this could be a good thing. personally, i have no intention of changing my admitedly combative tone of voice when I am on the net. or in person. fuck them. and I hope I have hurt their feelings. then maybe we can get a line of sight on one of these fucktard nazis when they come to our doors.
jc Reply:
May 21st, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Lol let them come to my door off some bullshit like this and yeah they can read this all they want to FUCK YOU.
May 19th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Her weight is not appropriate. It must be very sad to have to wake up everyday knowing you look like a cow. I bet she has to have a special bed made for her that doesn’t break from all of the extra weight. I bet her bedroom is on the first floor of the house because, if it wasn’t she wouldn’t simply fall through the floor from all of those extra pounds. I hope she reads this and it hurts her feelings. The post makes her so angry hearing about it that she repeatedly stumps her fat toe into a wall (on the first floor of course) until it breaks and then she walks with a limp for six weeks.
Madman Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
eh, her 21 year old boy friend has probably been slipping her some beers, and some beef, if ya know what I mean… as far as we know, she’s pregnant, and just waiting long enough to get it sucked out in private, or pulled out with a coat hanger, so she won’t lose her big paycheck.
jc Reply:
May 21st, 2009 at 1:06 pm
yeah and about that…lol…shouldn’t…he…be…in…jail?…I mean he’s fucking her and of course drinking with her…lol come on fellas…
May 19th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Little cunt….
May 19th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
When did we as Americans become such big Pu$$ys?
Someone assaults you, you fight back. You don’t go talttle and have someone else take care of it for you.
This is what is wrong with this country, no accountability AT ALL. Everyone WANTS big brother to come in and protect them from the bad banks, from the bad credit, and from the bad people calling us bad names.
Grow a fscking pair!
Jim lunsford Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
now, now, you know violence has been weeded out of our schoolkids. Would you belive I know a lot of people in their twenties who had never been in a fight? Not one! How fucking unbelievable. Hell, I used to get into one a week in school. It was part of the whole assimilating into the culture thing. Nowadays, they will send you to counselling for weeks and take you away from your parents for causing your violent nature and let’s not forget all the pills they would stick into your ass as well. What a pussy ass nation we’ve become. Fuck hannah montana you fat fucking cow.
May 19th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Let me see, fire can bring down a steal frame building [to dust] and now sticks and stones can or cant break my bones ,but words can…. hurt me ? or do words now break my bones ? Then what do sticks and stones do? . .
Jim lunsford Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
rebuild building 7?
May 19th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
911
AIPAC
Bankers
Information must be restricted to protect the guilty!
May 19th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
When?
Read a book and learn your history.
You were very late getting into WW2, very late.
And on the D-day landings your country famously messed up because the pu$$ies on your ships didn’t have the balls to get close enough to shore because they were afraid of German artillery. So the guys in the small boats going ashore had to endure over one hour on rough seas and their legs were rubber when they got ashore. Other allies got their guys ashore in less than 20 minute and had the beaches secured by the time you pus$ies showed up.
Then there was your war of shame in Vietnam where your soldiers probably raped more women than any war in history. And you couldn’t handle Charlie in the jungle so you bombed innocent civilians, babies, women and the elderly from your high flying planes.
Cowards.
Now you use un piloted drones to bomb women and children in the middle east in at least four countries because you are too afraid of getting shot.
You have been taking shit from your government for so long, you people haven’t got a clue about how to fight back. Sure you can get buzzed on pills and shoot a few dozen of your neighbors with your automatic weapons, but can you deal with your government? No.
You have all been pu$$ies for at least 60 years.
Come to France and see how a people still has some control over its government. We do it because we are educated and we get out in the streets to protest when our government screws us………unlike Americans who say bah bah bah yes sir.
Jim lunsford Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
I agree with all of it except where you got to the part where the french have balls. Hell, when I was there ya didn’t even have a decent pooper scooper law despite serious need of it. Come back, so we can taunt you some more! biotch. And in case you didn’t notice, you are in the EU. how’s that for standing up to tyranny and for sovereignty? Stupid fucking frenchie. why not take a bath instead of shouting ignorance to the high heavens?
BobReadsHistory Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Uh, how long did it take after the german attack for YOU pussies surrender?
A month? Asshole…
What about the illustrious ‘Vichy’ france? Collaborators!
And that ‘Maginot Line’ was some piece of useless work, too, huh genius?
The germans walked AROUND IT! good job!
Go fuck yourself, froggy.
Jim Lunsford Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Now, don’t hurt his feelings. You know how sensitive the french are about their valor in war. The only nation defeated by the mexican army. Oops. did I type that out loud?
Armed*Serenity}-;='--- Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Just remember they smoked your stinky french asses long before we got involved in Nam.
Jim Lunsford Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
And didn’t they have to call in the germans to help them in Vietnam? I mean, before they had to call us in afterwards. Though the vietnamese were correct and that war was wrong as well. But, that’s another story.
mikeyc Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
The French have balls alright.. on their chins
Patrick Seamus Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
A superior Frenchman? Superior to whom? A question for the ages, I guess, since the best thing a Frenchmen ever invented is a tie between a superior retreat strategy and a tasty cheese.
American infantry storming the beaches at Normandy were pussies? Sure, Frenchmen serving wine to their Nazi masters were just biding their time and being very tough about it as well. Go ahead, Mein Fuhrer, bang my wife if you’d like, I’ll just be getting you a cup of coffee. Being French is just awesome. No need to shower, I’ll just act like an asshole and generally be a cunt to everyone I meet. Oh, and let a foreign horde run amok in our capitol as well. Great job!
A Frog chastising an American about Vietnam?!?!?! Are you fucking kidding? You pompous assholes fucked around in ‘Nam for decades before being chased out. So did we, but you don’t hear us mocking the French for their Vietnam experience. Everyone who tried to conquer Vietnam, from the Chinese to the Japanese to the French cunts to the USA were seriously mistaken.
Speaking of mistaken, fighting any guerrilla campaign against a determined people is a mistake. USA in Korea; mistake. France in Vietnam; mistake. USA in Vietnam; mistake. USA in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc; mistake. War in general; mistake, unless you sell the materials for war, than it’s kick ass.
Wars in general are a means to enrich the elites at the expense (both monetary and bodily) of we useless eaters (normal people). Indeed, fuck the French’s cunty attitude, but they too died in the jungles of South East Asia to enrich the global elites. At least we aren’t so fucking uppity about it here in the USA.
Jessy S. Reply:
May 20th, 2009 at 12:21 am
And you might want to add that your President is at least able to legally serve in your country. We have a President who has duel citizenship in Kenya and Indonesia. I would love to see the day where Obama is forced to show his true colors and see that illegal alien being carted away from the White House in a perp walk to end all perp walks. Obama isn’t worth anything except for laughs.
Mad Reply:
May 20th, 2009 at 4:14 am
Superior (sic) Frenchman, tu ne peux pas être sérieux! Sais tu n’importe quoi au sujet de l’histoire française?
Imbécile…
May 19th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
U feel intimitade and some coerce in your freedom and feelings by that law as I do ?
So, the law have no logic.
Patrick Seamus Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Uninfuckingteligable.
May 19th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Oh, and more to the point of the article, Miley Cyrus is a dipshit media whore and she sold her feelings to be on TV, or at least her father did. She’s obviously oblivious to anything that doesn’t involve her making obscene amounts of money for being entirely mediocre in every way. I’ve taken shits more interesting than she is. This twat will be cleaning pools with her shit for brains dad before too long, but oh, don’t twitter that or she’ll back a Cyber Bullying Bill. I miss the time when people had to be both bullies and pussies in person.
May 19th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
And of course, all people of voting age are so going to pay attention to what some poor little rich teenager is thinking. What’s sad, is that so many of us are dumbed down enough for that to be true.
May 19th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
sticks & stones may break my bones but names…. make me want to kill myself!
May 19th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
So, if you think queers are offensive, does that make you eligible to sue them because their existence hurts your feelings? What about interracial dating. What about cooked carrot recipes? Hahahahaha. No wait, I’ve tried several cooked carrot recipes and I still don’t like them.
May 20th, 2009 at 1:03 am
For fucks sake what pussies they have turned our kids into. Man someone calls you names or insults you trade them back – If something someone has said to you hits a nerver – GET OVER IT pussy fags
May 20th, 2009 at 3:52 am
It’s the JEWS, stupid…
It’s the JEWS who are destroying free speech, because it’s the JEWS who are destroying your country! The JEWS are running your government, taking your money, getting your children to fight their wars in the Middle East, and running your media, which tells you how ‘poor’ and ‘helpless’ the harmless little ‘victim’ JEWS are… Wake up, before it’s too late.
May 20th, 2009 at 5:08 am
In 1997 NORAD said, “Aircraft flying over our air space are monitored seven days a week, 24 hours a day.”
The quote above is contradicted by the following 2008 quote from NORAD, “Since the tragic events of 9/11, NORADs role which previously was outward-looking now includes monitoring airspace within North America.”
See the 5 articles on NORAD at http://www.DNotice.org
The articles can be found under the Previous Articles section.
May 20th, 2009 at 7:16 am
Does this mean there will be a designated “Free Speech Zone” on the Internet, too?
May 21st, 2009 at 5:16 am
Haha, what a useless fucking talent, just like her daddy.
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