États-Unis : la gauche et les démocrates ne supportent plus la liberté d’expression qui « renforce et amplifie au contraire l’injustice »
La semaine dernière, au dernier jour de la session de la Cour suprême , Justice Elena Kagan a tiré la sonnette d’alarme. Justice Kagan, qui fait partie des quatre membres de l’aile libérale de la Cour, a dit que les conservateurs sont « en train de faire du Premier amendement une arme».
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«La position libertarienne est devenue dominante à droite sur les questions concernant le Premier amendement», a déclaré Ilya Shapiro, un avocat […]. « Cela signifie simplement que nous devrions nous méfier des tentatives gouvernementales de réglementer la parole. […] «Ce qu’on appelle maintenant la position libertarienne sur la parole était dans les années 1960 la position libérale sur la parole».
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«La gauche était autrefois non seulement dans le mouvement qui préconisait les plus larges protections dans le cadre du Premier amendement, mais elle était à sa tête», a déclaré Floyd Abrams, un éminent avocat spécialiste du Premier amendement […]. «Maintenant la communauté progressiste est pour le moins sceptique et parfois affolée par le niveau de protection du Premier amendement qui est actuellement accordé […] »
Nombreux sont à gauche ceux qui ont troqué un engagement absolu pour la liberté d’expression contre un engagement plus sensible aux dégâts qu’elle peut causer.
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Certains libéraux disent maintenant que la liberté d’expression protège démesurément les puissants et le statu quo.
« Quand j’étais plus jeune, j’avais davantage la vision libérale standard des libertés civiles», a expliqué Louis Michael Seidman, professeur de droit à Georgetown. «Et j’ai peu à peu changé d’avis à ce sujet. Ce que j’en suis arrivé à comprendre, c’est qu’il est illusoire de penser que la liberté d’expression soit un moyen efficace pour réaliser une société plus juste».
« Quand j’étais plus jeune, j’avais davantage la vision libérale standard des libertés civiles», a expliqué Louis Michael Seidman, professeur de droit à Georgetown. «Et j’ai peu à peu changé d’avis à ce sujet. Ce que j’en suis arrivé à comprendre, c’est qu’il est illusoire de penser que la liberté d’expression soit un moyen efficace pour réaliser une société plus juste».
La liberté d’expression renforce et amplifie au contraire l’injustice, écrit Catharine A. MacKinnon, professeur de droit à l’Université du Michigan […]
«Autrefois défense des faibles, le Premier amendement est devenu principalement au cours des cent dernières années une arme au service des puissants», écrit-elle. «Légalement, ce qui était, vers le début du XXe siècle, un bouclier pour les radicaux, les artistes et les militants, socialistes et pacifistes, les exclus et les plus démunis, est devenu une épée pour les partisans de l’autorité, les racistes et les misogynes, les nazis et les gens du Ku Klux Klan, les pornographes et les entreprises qui achètent les élections».
(Traduction Fdesouche)
Here is prominent Antifa member Lacy MacAuley attending their conference, and former Obama aid and Vice Chair of the DNC Mike Blake.
https://twitter.com/TomlinsonCJ/status/1012727229443444737
So the @DNC supports attending conferences with members of domestic terrorist movements and organisations who plan to bring "informants" to the US. That "unhinged" video was mild compared to what really seems to lurk beneath the surface.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/08/23/soros-funded-uk-far-left-group-promises-create-spy-ring-usa/
I cut it off on the pic, but Melissa Ryan, who writes for HOPE not Hate USA (and Media Matters) retweeted Antifa leader Lacy, indicating, in my opinion, that she approves of her attendance.
Here is a more clear picture.
Lacy was involved in the violent Inauguration Day riot.
Antifa Thugs Demand ‘Overdue Payment’ From George Soros
April 28, 2017 Sean Adl-Tabatabai News, US 61
https://yournewswire.com/antifa-payment-george-soros/
Antifa terrorists demand payment from George Soros
A video posted to Twitter shows Antifa members demanding that billionaire globalist George Soros pay them for their services so far.
Earlier in the year, after Antifa successfully shut down a Milo Yiannopoulos speech by rioting at Berkeley, it was revealed that the Democrat terror group was funded by George Soros.
The video, posted by Beverly Hills Antifa, features a quote which reads: “Antifa demands George Soros pay us the money he owes. Unite comrades and fight for $15/hour. #Resist”
Antifa demands George Soros pay us the money he owes.
Unite comrades and fight for $15/hour. #Resist pic.twitter.com/FRxCnD3IYo
— Beverly Hills Antifa (@BevHillsAntifa) April 3, 2017
From Daily Caller: The left-wing group that helped organize the violent shut down of the Milo Yiannopoulos event at the University of California, Berkeley on Wednesday is backed by a progressive charity that is in turn funded by George Soros, the city of Tucson, a major labor union and several large companies.
The Global Alliance for Justice, based in Tucson, is listed as an organizer and fiscal sponsor for Refuse Fascism, a communist group that encouraged left-wingers to shut down the Yiannopoulos event.
The call to arms succeeded. Yiannopoulos’ talk was cancelled after demonstrators lit fires, vandalized businesses, and assaulted Donald Trump and Yiannopoulos supporters.
Refuse Fascism, which includes Princeton professor Cornel West as one of its founding “initiators,” defended the response, issuing a statement on its website that called the shut down “righteous.”
And on its Facebook page, the group asserted that the vandalism and arson were not “violence.” Instead, the group argued that Yiannopoulos and Trump perpetrate violence through the policies they support.
“Dismantling police fences is not violent. And to compare preventing someone like that from speaking to the real-world violence that they perpetuate everyday is ludicrous,” reads one post on the group’s Facebook page.
The organization did not mention the violent attacks against conservatives. One Trump backer was attacked with shovels by a group of men clad in black. He was shown laying unconscious in the middle of the street. A female Trump supporter was blasted with pepper spray while giving an on-camera interview.
Refuse Fascism’s involvement has spurred questions about who is behind the group. In a series of tweets on Thursday, Trump asserted that the protesters were paid to agitate.
While it is unclear whether those who carried out the violence were paid to do so, the benefactors of the Alliance for Global Justice — and Refuse Fascism — are listed online.
According to its most recent 990 tax form, Alliance for Global Justice (AfGJ) received $2.2 million in funding for the fiscal year ending in March 2016.
One of the group’s biggest donors is the Tides Foundation, a non-profit funded by billionaire progressive philanthropist George Soros. Tides gave AfGJ $50,000.
Other notable donors include the city of Tucson and the United Steel Workers labor union. The former gave $10,000 to AfGJ while the latter contributed $5,000.
Charities associated with several major corporations also donated. Patagonia.org, the outdoor apparel and equipment company, gave $40,000. The Ben & Jerry Foundation, the charity associated with the ice cream maker, gave $20,000. And Lush Cosmetic gave $43,950.
Another bit of irony is seen in the $5,000 contribution from the Peace Development Fund, a group that claims to support organizations that fight for human rights and social justice.
Another major donation came from a group that was chaired by Hillary Clinton during the 1980s. The New World Foundation gave $52,000 to AfGJ.
Refuse Fascism did not respond to a request for comment for this article.
Chuck Kaufman, the national co-ordinator for AfGJ, said he was only aware of the Berkeley protests through social media.
“I wasn’t aware that Refuse Fascism was involved, but probably they were one of a whole lot of groups calling to shut down Milo Yiannopoulos’ hate speech,” he told The Daily Caller.
“AfGJ acts as fiscal sponsor for Refuse Fascism which means we process tax-deductible donations for them. As long as their use of the money falls into areas permitted for tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations, we don’t involve ourselves one way or the other in their program work.”
Correction: This article initially stated that Fidelity Charitable and Schwab Charitable gave small donations to AfGJ. Those donations were made by individuals through donor-advised funds and did not come directly from either Fidelity or Schwab.
We must come together to fight the resurgent racist right (2018.06.19)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/19/we-must-come-together-to-fight-the-resurgent-racist-right
Over 50 parliamentarians, trade unionists, faith leaders and anti-racism campaigners sign a letter warning of an emboldened far right and saying we must defend our multicultural society
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Police line up against protesters in Trafalgar Square, marching to demand Tommy Robinson be freed from prison, 9 June 2018. Photograph: Penelope Barritt/Rex/Shutterstock
The 15,000-strong violent far-right protest to “free Tommy Robinson” on Saturday 9 June has raised major questions for all those who value our diversity. The racist right are using Robinson to reorganise. Nazi salutes and Islamophobia were at the centre of the mobilisation. This is the first serious attempt since the collapse of the English Defence League (EDL) to develop a racist street movement and give it a political form. It is supported internationally by notorious figures including from the US and the Dutch Islamophobic right.
It is absolutely vital that all who oppose this come together in a united mass movement powerful enough to drive these new developments on the far right back. Donald Donald Trump has played a major role in galvanising the racist right. We will take to the streets for the Together Against Trump demonstration coinciding with his visit on 13 July. And when Robinson’s supporters take to the streets again on 14 July, we will protest against them too. Wherever the far right’s support grows so does racism and violence. Let’s come together to defend our multicultural society from those who spread hatred and division.
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Diane Abbott MP Shadow home secretary
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Len McCluskey General secretary, Unite the Union
Dave Prentis General secretary, Unison
Talha Ahmed Treasurer, Muslim Council of Britain
Mohammed Kozbar Chairman, Finsbury Park Mosque
Rabbi Lee Wax
Sabby Dhalu and Weyman Bennett Co-convenors, Stand Up To Racism
Ged Grebby Chief executive, Show Racism the Red Card
Richard Burgon MP Shadow justice secretary
Laura Pidcock MP Shadow minister for labour
Cat Smith MP Shadow minister for voter engagement and youth affairs
David Lammy MP
Emma Dent Coad MP
Marsha De Cordova MP
Andrew Gwynne MP
Peter Hain Labour, House of Lords
Claude Moraes MEP
Julie Ward MEP
Jean Lambert MEP
Tim Roache General secretary, GMB
Kevin Courtney NEU, Joint general secretary
Mark Serwotka General secretary, PCS
Dave Ward General secretary, CWU
Matt Wrack General secretary, FBU
Mick Cash General secretary, RMT
Ian Lawrence General secretary, Napo
Steve Gillan General secretary, POA
Manuel Cortes General secretary, TSSA
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Kevin Maguire Journalist
Michael Rosen Poet
Salma Yaqoob
Roger Huddle and Red Saunders Founders, Rock Against Racism
David Rosenberg Author
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Dr Siema Iqbal Co-founder of Avow (Advancing Voices of Women against Islamophobia)
Julia Bard National Committee, Jewish Socialists’ Group
Claudia Webbe Labour party NEC and Islington councillor
Margaret Greer National race equality officer, Unison
Harish Patel National equalities officer, Unite the Union
Ian Hodson National president, BFWAU
Tony Kearns Deputy general secretary (postal) CWU
Steve Hedley Deputy general secretary, RMT
Jane Loftus Vice president, CWU
Phyllis Opoku-Gyimah Executive director, UK Black Pride
Shahrar Ali Home affairs spokesperson, Green party
Maz Saleem Anti-racism campaigner/Stand Up To Trump
Kate Hudson General secretary, CND
Lindsey German Stop the War Coalition
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Left-wing extremism group STAND UP TO RACISM
United against fascim
https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1012703429179801600
I think I can do ONE MORE Twitter thread about left-wing extremism before I go on my trip.
The name of the group is Stand Up to Racism. I got a tip about Communists lurking about in their ranks. See this video for more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqkuNQ2zgJc
DISCLAIMER: I am against all forms of extremism, don't condone violence, and will only be making this thread for educational purposes.
The reasons for this are located here http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sqj187 . But in short? Right-wing extremism gets too much coverage, Left-wing is ignored.
People in the comments of the video mention hearing the voice of Weyman Bennett. Quick look around reveals he's the "Co-convenor of Stand Up to Racism and joint secretary of Unite Against Fascism" http://archive.is/M4j9g
Of course his profile pic is w/ Corbyn.
Interestingly enough there's a second Twitter account with this guy's name attached. Don't know if it's the same Weyman Bennett. But whoever it is happens to have some insight into the POLICE COSTS for covering left-wing demonstrations like those by United Against Fascism.
"I can say that the UAF is de best or de worst now understand?" http://archive.is/QDv3k
I understand. that's an admission of being within the extremes.
Alright. So here's background on Weyman Bennett in terms of his position at the Stand Up to Racism organization, how Jeremy Corbyn fits into that, and the connection between them and United Against Fascism.
And here's an important video involving Weyman Bennett, that's also showing @Nigel_Farage knew about the United against Fascism/Hope not Hate ties to the Labour Party as far back as 2014.
https://youtu.be/PvizWdH0484
"How so?"
**When it comes to the public eye** United Against Fascism and Hope not Hate deny using violence to achieve their goals.
Situations like the Sargon of Akkad King's College ambush from earlier this year? beg to differ.
https://youtu.be/HPj3CyBJrIE
UAF Leader Weyman Bennett in 2014 said it was "factually inaccurate" that anti-fa use violence.
I think the public would now beg to differ.
Far-left “thug” exposed as prominent Labour Party member
https://altnewsmedia.net/news/exclusive-far-left-thug-exposed-as-prominent-labour-party-member/
So @lucyfrown 's medium post detailing the events of a far-left anti-fa extremist attack that took place at Seven Oaks back in April was removed. Because she got suspended.
Here's an archive in case you wanted to read it. http://archive.is/GNtj7
https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1012379887695429633
Anyway. This 2014 video is important because:
- @Nigel_Farage lays out the connection from far-left extremism to Labour party.
- A UKIP spokesperson cites examples of violence against Farage from Hope not Hate and other far-left affiliated groups.
Let's lay these connections out.
Weyman Bennett of Stand Up to Racism ---> Chris Williamson MP (Labour MP for Derby North) http://archive.is/GFwJC
And this relationship between:
Jeremy Corbyn and Labour <----> Socialist Workers Party/Weyman Bennett/Anti-fa far-left extremists
Came to the forefront of attention last year. SWP had a rape scandal? http://archive.is/0ViOM http://archive.is/UX3OY http://archive.is/NmHFL
Here's a few articles to read. http://archive.is/vat8T http://archive.is/nIReJ
Within these pieces we can find valuable info solidifying the relationship between Weyman Bennett and Jeremy Corbyn moreso.
For example, this.
> SWP member got raped by a senior party officer
> SWP handles it through internal disputes committee.
> Ruled against rape victim implying "she asked for it"
> Weyman Bennett was on SWP central committee at that time.
THIS PART IS KEY: the last portion of the Medium post details the close and long relationship between Weyman Bennett of Stand Up to Racism and Jeremy Corbyn.
Let me repeat the end quote that cements this relationship between Weyman and Jeremy.
"Thanks, Weyman. And in Weyman we have somebody very special and very principled and very good. Weyman, thanks for everything you do, have done and will do."
Pretty straightforward.
Alright. So when it comes to Anti-fa organizations, we've got Stand Up to Racism, and we got Hope not Hate.
- Diane Abbot (MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington) is SUTR's President. - Ruth Smeeth (MP for Stoke-on-Trent North) is Hope not Hate's secretary.
"Why does this matter?" These people have political leverage. These people can BRING AN ABSOLUTE HALT TO regulations and restrictions imposed on countering the threat of far-left radical anti-fa extremism.
In fact for Stand Up to Racism's case there's MORE than just Diane Abbot.
Many of these organizations are heavily funded by Soros.
OUR WORLD: SOROS’S CAMPAIGN OF GLOBAL CHAOS
https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Our-World-Soross-campaign-of-global-chaos-464770
The first thing that we see is the megalomaniacal nature of Soros’s philanthropic project. No corner of the globe is unaffected by his efforts. No policy area is left untouched.
BY CAROLINE B. GLICK AUGUST 22, 2016 21:44
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George Soros . (photo credit: REUTERS)
Major media outlets in the US have ignored the leak of thousands of emails from billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundation by the activist hacker group DCLeaks. The OSF is the vehicle through which Soros has funneled billions of dollars over the past two decades to non-profit organizations in the US and throughout the world.
According to the documents, Soros has given more than $30 million to groups working for Hillary Clinton’s election in November, making him her largest single donor. So it is likely the case that the media’s support for Clinton has played some role in the mainstream media’s bid to bury the story.
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It is also likely however, that at least some news editors failed to understand why the leaked documents were worth covering. Most of the information was already public knowledge. Soros’s massive funding of far-left groups in the US and throughout the world has been documented for more than a decade.
But failing to see the significance of the wider story because many of the details were already known is a case of missing the forest for the trees. The DCLeaks document dump is a major story because it exposes the forest of Soros’s funding networks.
The first thing that we see is the megalomaniacal nature of Soros’s philanthropic project. No corner of the globe is unaffected by his efforts. No policy area is left untouched.
On the surface, the vast number of groups and people he supports seem unrelated. After all, what does climate change have to do with illegal African immigration to Israel? What does Occupy Wall Street have to do with Greek immigration policies? But the fact is that Soros-backed projects share basic common attributes.
They all work to weaken the ability of national and local authorities in Western democracies to uphold the laws and values of their nations and communities.
They all work to hinder free markets, whether those markets are financial, ideological, political or scientific. They do so in the name of democracy, human rights, economic, racial and sexual justice and other lofty terms.
In other words, their goal is to subvert Western democracies and make it impossible for governments to maintain order or for societies to retain their unique identities and values.
Black Lives Matter, which has received $650,000 from Soros-controlled groups over the past year, is a classic example of these efforts. Until recently, the police were universally admired in the US as the domestic equivalent of the military. BLM emerged as a social force bent on politicizing support for police.
Its central contention is that in the US, police are not a force for good, enabling society to function by maintaining law and order. Rather, police are a tool of white repression of blacks.
Law enforcement in predominantly African American communities is under assault as inherently racist.
BLM agitation, which has been accused of inspiring the murders of police in several US cities, has brought about two responses from rank and file police. First, they have been demoralized, as they find themselves criminalized for trying to keep their cities safe from criminals.
Second, their willingness to use force in situations that demand the use of force has diminished. Fear of criminal charges on the one hand, and public condemnation as “racists” on the other causes police to prefer inaction even when situations require that they act.
The demoralization and intimidation of police is very likely to cause a steep increase in violent crimes.
Then there are Soros’s actions on behalf of illegal immigration. From the US to Europe to Israel, Soros has implemented a worldwide push to use immigration to undermine the national identity and demographic composition of Western democracies. The leaked emails show that his groups have interfered in European elections to get politicians elected who support open border policies for immigrants from the Arab world and to financially and otherwise support journalists who report sympathetically on immigrants.
Soros’s groups are on the ground enabling illegal immigrants to enter the US and Europe. They have sought to influence US Supreme Court rulings on illegal immigration from Mexico. They have worked with Muslim and other groups to demonize Americans and Europeans who oppose open borders.
In Israel as well, Soros opposes government efforts to end the flow of illegal immigration from Africa through the border with Egypt.
The notion at the heart of the push for the legalization of unfettered immigration is that states should not be able to protect their national identities.
If it is racist for Greeks to protect their national identity by seeking to block the entrance of millions of Syrians to their territory, then it is racist for Greece – or France, Germany, Hungary, Sweden the US or Poland – to exist.
Parallel to these efforts are others geared toward rejecting the right of Western democracies to uphold long-held social norms. Soros-supported groups, for instance, stand behind the push not only for gay marriage but for unisex public bathrooms.
They support not only the right of women to serve in combat units, but efforts to force soldiers to live in unisex barracks. In other words, they support efforts aimed at denying citizens of Western democracies the right to maintain any distance between themselves and Soros’s rejection of their most intimate values – their sexual privacy and identity.
As far as Israel is concerned, Soros-backed groups work to delegitimize every aspect of Israeli society as racist and illegitimate. The Palestinians are focal point of his attacks. He uses them to claim that Israel is a racist state. Soros funds moderate leftist groups, radical leftist groups, Israeli Arab groups and Palestinian groups. In various, complementary ways, these groups tell their target audiences that Israel has no right to defend itself or enforce its laws toward its non-Jewish citizens.
In the US, Soros backed groups from BLM to J Street work to make it socially and politically acceptable to oppose Israel.
The thrust of Soros’s efforts from Ferguson to Berlin to Jerusalem is to induce mayhem and chaos as local authorities, paralyzed by his supported groups, are unable to secure their societies or even argue coherently that they deserve security.
In many ways, Donald Trump’s campaign is a direct response not to Clinton, but to Soros himself.
By calling for the erection of a border wall, supporting Britain’s exit from the EU, supporting Israel, supporting a temporary ban on Muslim immigration and supporting the police against BLM, Trump acts as a direct foil to Soros’s multi-billion dollar efforts.
The DCLeaks exposed the immensity of the Soros-funded Left’s campaign against the foundations of liberal democracies. The “direct democracy” movements that Soros support are nothing less than calls for mob rule.
The peoples of the West need to recognize the common foundations of all Soros’s actions. They need to realize as well that the only response to these premeditated campaigns of subversion is for the people of the West to stand up for their national rights and their individual right to security. They must stand with the national institutions that guarantee that security, in accordance with the rule of the law, and uphold and defend their national values and traditions.
https://nickmonroe.blog/2017/12/22/the-soros-saga/
So @lucyfrown 's medium post detailing the events of a far-left anti-fa extremist attack that took place at Seven Oaks back in April was removed. Because she got suspended.
Here's an archive in case you wanted to read it. http://archive.is/GNtj7
https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1012379887695429633
The story is thankfully also survived on https://lucybrown.info
In case you forgot and need a recap.
Hope not Hate publicized the location of Generation Identity's conference event back in April. This allowed far-left anti-fa extremists to organize an attack and assault the members/attendees of the conference.
^ This is the same Hope not Hate that praised Facebook for banning Generation Identity a little over a week ago.
... for *the exact same social media policies* that Hope not Hate is complicit in breaking and violating on Twitter.
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