Is this not amazing to you? I find it almost impossible to stay on top of all the crap Bush and the repugs are doing to strip us of our rights and destroy the Constitution. Funny, I just saw People Vs. Larry Flynt. How sad that we're regressing even worse than those days... I just came across this article that barely raised a murmur in the MSM.
They are not even a dozen strong, but the Islamic activists (mostly Shiah women) who spoke up at Houston's IndyMedia website Friday morning say they are backed by principles found in the First Amendment to the Constitution of the USA, Article 19 of United Nations Declarations of Human Rights, and Islamic principles, "which call for the pursuit of knowledge throughout one's life and the dissemination of knowledge."
At the time their statement was posted Friday morning, the State Department had not yet announced its decision to place Hezbollah-backed television station Al-Manar on the terrorist watch list. But within hours, the decision had been announced and the Intelsat satellite company had stopped relaying the station's signal to USA audiences.
"The 'war on terrorism', the fight against crime and the fight against right wing extremism can pose problems for the practice of investigative journalism," says the report. Under the cover of anti-terrorism, the state is exercising new forms of surveillance and control over journalists."http://www.alternet.org/rights/20795/