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YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos
hhavensteincw writes "YouTube has declined a request from Sen. Joe Lieberman remove videos from terrorist organizations. Lieberman said that the videos made by groups like Al-Qaeda show assassinations, attacks on US soldiers leading to injuries and death, and weapons training, 'incendiary' speeches, and other material intended to 'encourage violence against the West.' YouTube said that while it removed some of the videos highlighted by the Senator, most were allowed to stay because they did not violate YouTube's community guidelines. YouTube went on to note that they are strong supporters of free speech."
That still doesn't excuse jewish lawyers from being the first to defend these people.
...so yeah, Lieberman is due for a dressing down from his rabbi.
You know, a lot of fundies like to make noises about how the US is founded on the Bible/Xianity.
Where do you think all that stuff came from to begin with?
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Well in "real war" you have a very well defined enemy
What a relief to know that those 2500+ people didn't "really die" on September 11. I bet Theo van Gogh will be relieved to learn that he's not "really dead" either.
I often don't like the choices people make, but I like the fact that people make choices. That's why I'm a conservative.
Hell, every single time the US apparatus kills a non-merkun, that is animosity generated SOMEwhere, and it puts a fucking bulls eye on MY back. Going to wrong place, or just having visible a US passport not only increases the risk of being accosted, grabbed, or killed (not to mention having prices jacked up at the sound of my voice or sight of my gait or clothing or body language) makes me a target, NOT solely because of the passport but for being called a 'merkun.
There's a reason there was dancing in the streets in the middle east on 9/11. It was becasue they believe we are an immoral society. It has nothing to do with our use of force. Force is something the middle east respects and uses all the time. What they have a problem with is the fact that women can walk the beach in teh US in a bikini. They watch movies from hollywood and believe that is how everyone lives in the US.
If you want to understand their mindset, read about "honor killings". Then perahps use your moronic reasoning to explain how a father and sons can kicks a daughter to death in front of the mother, all teh while sobbing that they love her and that she is the jewel of the family.
It is amazing to me that the folks in the US that DETEST the religious right in teh US can somehow embrace the EXTREME religious right in other countries.