I’m sure that by now all of you have heard about what happened down in Texas.
Because of the fact that I happen to be a blogger, and do write about Politics, Freedom and Religion; I am going to offer my thoughts on this little event.
I’m all for freedom of speech the more the better I feel and personally I feel the answer to offensive freedom of speech is more freedom of speech to refute it. However, I will say this about one of the people who are involved in that event that happened down there in Texas where the shooting occurred —- Her name is Pamela Geller.
Pamela Geller is a Jewish conservative blogger from New York. Pamela Geller is also what some would refer to as an Agent Provocateur.
In other words, she is well-known for taunting Muslims and disrespecting their religion to garner a reaction from those of the radical Muslim sort. She does this so she can go back to her blog and say “see all of those Muslims? They want to murder people!”
Now, let me make this abundantly clear, I believe that no religion or race, color or creed or sex is above mocking or criticism. Furthermore, I believe that freedom of speech is a bedrock freedom that we enjoy in this country.
However, I believe that people like Pamela Geller who use the First Amendment in this country or the idea of freedom of speech to intentionally provoked those of the Islāmic faith to carry out acts of violence actually devalues our right to freedom of speech in this country and the protections of the First Amendment.
Having said that I believe that Pamela Geller should be most certainly charged with hate speech because of this event. So far, she has skated and not been charged of any such crimes because of her reliance on the First Amendment.
However, as we all know tonight there are two dead men in a parking lot and I truly believe that is because of Pamela Geller actions and personally as a Christian and as a Buchananite conservative; I believe Pamela Geller should be charged with hate speech because of the danger unnecessary placed on the police officers and the people at this event.
Pamela Geller unnecessarily put people’s lives at risk also she can have a little event that mocked Muhammad that my friends is not being a patriot that is being shameful.
It is for this reason that my blog does not link to her blog at all.
Her fight is not for freedom or even freedom of speech her whole thing is self promotion and her moronic attempt at self promotion caused two men to be shot and killed by the police and put a lot of people’s lives at risk, including the police officers who were trying to stop these two guys from killing people.
Again that’s not patriotism that is shameful in my humble opinion. 😡
Update: This is now a major story on Memeorandum
I applaud your levelheadedness. I would add that freedom of speech has to do with government not restricting your speech. Insulting someone and then being attacked by that person is not a freedom of speech issue. Yeah, nobody should attack anyone else, but that is more of an issue of crime and not an issue of persons rights.
I appreciate your compliments.
But, I must respectfully disagree with your assessment.
The issue here is provocation; none of this would have happened, if Pamela Geller had not had her event for the sole purpose of mocking Muhammad.
She did this purposely to cause a provocation by radical Muslims so she could go back to her blog and denounce Islam on her blog.
she does this because she is Jewish, to her it is a personal religious war against Muslims.
She tries to put the Radical label on it as to not come off sounding like a total total bigot. But the truth is her and Debbie Schlussel both hate Muslims with a passion.
Because of this, I stand by my original statement that Pamela Geller should be brought up on hate speech charges for causing this event to occur her and Robert Spencer both should be charged.
My issue is this here: She can do this mocking Muslims. But, if someone like me had an event mocking Jews, blacks or even gays. it would be shut down and I would most likely be arrested and charged with hate speech crimes.
But this Jew can do this and nothing will happen to her. I think it’s pretty obvious here what the motivation is and how her ethninticity offers her a certain level of protection.
end of discussion