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First Amendment: Stand Up!

Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆ 2012/10/01 18:04:50
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The man in the photo is a First Amendment lawyer in New Jersey. Last weekend (September 29) he discussed some of his best cases. All had one thing in common: someone was ready to stand up and be counted, against authorities, employers, school boards, peers, etc.

His message is simple: to protect your rights, you need to stand up for them, and stand on them.



Coming up: Pastor Freedom Day, October 7, 2012. He and other lawyers working with Alliance Defending Freedom are waiting for the first pastors to call them. More than a thousand pastors have signed up to stand up for their First Amendment rights.

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  • rightside 2012/10/01 19:00:08
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    Been listening to this and by all means Pastors and others CAN speak up about things we should be looking for in those we vote for.

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  • Cat 2012/10/03 06:48:12
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    Hooray for the first through tenth amendments,
    THE BILL OF RIGHTS.
  • mk, Smartass Oracle 2012/10/02 19:23:58
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    First Amendment belongs to the people




    first amendment
  • JessyBear 2012/10/02 16:41:43
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    If we do not stand up for our First Amendment rights and our neighbors they will be lost.
  • J.L.Worley 2012/10/02 13:52:07
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    I agree with the lawyer and as American citizens then we need to learn to stand on our own and defend what's ours.
  • wysiwis 2012/10/02 11:08:35
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    1st Amendment, use it or loose it. Defend it with the 2nd if necessary.
  • Andrew 2012/10/02 09:47:06
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    I have often said, "The best way to retain your right to free speech is to practices it constantly, without fear"! Free speech is the right to speak what you believe to be the truth! The left is unafraid to verbalize the absurd, so why should we be afraid to verbalize the logical?! Free Speech!!! Practice it DAILY!!!!
  • CrazyJason 2012/10/02 08:35:43 (edited)
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    I like people like him. He's a real American.. not some justin bieber twit.
  • postmamy 2012/10/02 03:24:47
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    Yes
    FREEDOM rings FREEDOM rings
  • hatter 2012/10/02 02:22:13
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    i think it is very important not to descriminate against religious people unless they are forcing their crap on you. then its a free for all. i need to think more about the last part.
  • Beccy 2012/10/02 00:13:29
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    Your life will be unbareable.
  • ☆Hitler... Beccy 2012/10/02 00:23:57
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    it already is
  • seadog6... Beccy 2012/10/03 12:57:46
  • Jackie G - Poker Playing Pa... 2012/10/01 23:26:19
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    Jackie G - Poker Playing Patriot
  • JT For Political Reform 2012/10/01 23:23:32
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    And I'll use my 2nd amendment rights to protect the 1st if I have to.
  • Joves the Instigator 2012/10/01 23:18:34
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    Well I am for standing up for all of our Rights. But those rights do carry responsibility in their use, and much of that is the problem. Both government and the people have misused and abused them. That is why we find ourselves in the total moral morass we are in, where society has degraded to the sad state it is in.
  • No Name 2012/10/01 21:35:51
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    Once anyone else can say what they want back. Everything should be able to be criticized, as nothing is infallible. Mind if there are repercussions of what is said, then you must accept the civil law that goes with that such a libel and compensation.
  • MarinerFH 2012/10/01 21:28:12
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    The First Amendment is essential to a free America. Kudos for all who stand up for it.
  • zapped 2012/10/01 20:52:33
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    this is where the meaning of the term constitutional conservative applies , our freedoms ,bill of rights , and amedments need to be protected !

    and if current factions gain 4 more those rights will be abolished !

    as a veteran / oath keeper / patriot I will defend my & my fellow american rights ,,,,,

    the current factions have made their intentions obvious ,,he & his cabinet need go Bye Bye ..
  • Walt 2012/10/01 20:46:43
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    As with all of our rights, use them or lose them.

    Something that is a God given right can still be taken away by evil men, part of a power mad system.
  • santa6642 2012/10/01 20:30:33
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    And the Second protects that right.
  • Ken 2012/10/01 20:11:21 (edited)
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    Unknown to the great majority of the population there is a major effort underway by the radical left to strip conservatives of their First Amendment rights. Not content to have ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN in their pocket, they are constantly threatening to boycott advertisers of conservative talk-show hosts as well as sponsors of Fox News.

    Additionally, Barack Obama appointed as "diversity czar" at the FCC, a man, Mark Lloyd, who has little respect for the First Amendment, as this excerpt from Lloyd's book, "Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America", indicates (assuming the title to his book doesn't do that):

    "It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom [of speehc and the press!] is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

    "[T]he purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance."

    To understand what Lloyd means by "democratic governance", one has only to look at what he has to say about Hugo Chavez's socialist government in Venezuela, which is even more frightening for a man in power ...









    Unknown to the great majority of the population there is a major effort underway by the radical left to strip conservatives of their First Amendment rights. Not content to have ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN in their pocket, they are constantly threatening to boycott advertisers of conservative talk-show hosts as well as sponsors of Fox News.

    Additionally, Barack Obama appointed as "diversity czar" at the FCC, a man, Mark Lloyd, who has little respect for the First Amendment, as this excerpt from Lloyd's book, "Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America", indicates (assuming the title to his book doesn't do that):

    "It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom [of speehc and the press!] is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

    "[T]he purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance."

    To understand what Lloyd means by "democratic governance", one has only to look at what he has to say about Hugo Chavez's socialist government in Venezuela, which is even more frightening for a man in power at our FCC:

    "In Venezuela, with Chavez, is really an incredible revolution - a democratic revolution. To begin to put in place things that are going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela.

    "The property owners and the folks who then controlled the media in Venezuela rebelled - worked, frankly, with folks here in the U.S. government - worked to oust him. But he came back with another revolution, and then Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country.

    "And we've had complaints about this ever since."

    So to Obama's "diversity czar" at the FCC, free speech should be regulated to promote "democratic governance"; and his idea of democratic governance is Venezuela, where Hugo Chavez seized control of the media. Wait for it if Obama is reelected!!!

    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/...
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  • txtumlin Ken 2012/10/01 20:27:57
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    I have no doubt of what you are saying about Freedom of Speech! He will try! But he has to be elected first! :D
  • jean Ken 2012/10/02 13:37:34
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    Amen dear Ken.
  • Swampdog 2012/10/01 20:01:22
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    Freedom of religion and speech.The first two things Muslimes will take away when the democrats give them America. If we don't stop them now it may be to late.
  • Red_Horse 2012/10/01 19:59:01
  • NightRyder 2012/10/01 19:46:55 (edited)
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    "With arrows and with BOWS shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns." (Isaiah 7:24)

    With arrows means to hunt, or to defend themselves from wild beasts, which commonly abide in desolate grounds. Now, about those wild beast; They are enemies.

    In God's warning to Israel concerning His law; "And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it." (Leviticus 26:14-15)

    We had that in 2001, and at this time we are at Leviticus 26:18; "And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins."

    If the people don't stop the government, which was the reason for our Conatitution, we will soon be to Leviticus 26:22; "I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate."

    Even Perot is back in the news, and said "the nation's weak economy has left us open for a hostile takeover, a...

    "With arrows and with BOWS shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns." (Isaiah 7:24)

    With arrows means to hunt, or to defend themselves from wild beasts, which commonly abide in desolate grounds. Now, about those wild beast; They are enemies.

    In God's warning to Israel concerning His law; "And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it." (Leviticus 26:14-15)

    We had that in 2001, and at this time we are at Leviticus 26:18; "And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins."

    If the people don't stop the government, which was the reason for our Conatitution, we will soon be to Leviticus 26:22; "I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate."

    Even Perot is back in the news, and said "the nation's weak economy has left us open for a hostile takeover, and neither presidential candidate is the man to save the country."

    What he sees coming is stated in Leviticus 26:22. People better get ready to defend ourselves again, or we will become homeless on the continent our fathers conquered.
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  • words t... NightRyder 2012/10/01 20:56:38
    words to live by
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    You speak the truth. All hell is going to break loose.

    that was a great post
  • NightRyder words t... 2012/10/01 21:39:20
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    I am afraid it already has, and is the cause of much of the world's problems to day. "And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea."

    Through out the book of Daniel, three attributes of Antichrist are specified: (1) The highest worldly wisdom and civilization. (2) The uniting of the whole civilized world under his dominion (We see this happening today). (3) Atheism, antitheism, and autotheism in its fullest development. Therefore, not only is power taken from the fourth beast, as in the case of the other three, but God destroys it and the world power in general by a final judgment. The present external Christianity is to give place to an almost universal apostasy. Revelation covers these topics from the release of the Horsemen until the sounding of the last trumpet.

    The beginning of the 1260 years of Satan's captivity was set by Elliot at A.D. 529 or 533, when Justinian's edict acknowledged Pope John II to be head of the Church; however, LUTHER set it at 606, when Phocas confirmed Justinian's grant. During Satan's time in the pit, Christ saved his Kingdom on earth...
    I am afraid it already has, and is the cause of much of the world's problems to day. "And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea."

    Through out the book of Daniel, three attributes of Antichrist are specified: (1) The highest worldly wisdom and civilization. (2) The uniting of the whole civilized world under his dominion (We see this happening today). (3) Atheism, antitheism, and autotheism in its fullest development. Therefore, not only is power taken from the fourth beast, as in the case of the other three, but God destroys it and the world power in general by a final judgment. The present external Christianity is to give place to an almost universal apostasy. Revelation covers these topics from the release of the Horsemen until the sounding of the last trumpet.

    The beginning of the 1260 years of Satan's captivity was set by Elliot at A.D. 529 or 533, when Justinian's edict acknowledged Pope John II to be head of the Church; however, LUTHER set it at 606, when Phocas confirmed Justinian's grant. During Satan's time in the pit, Christ saved his Kingdom on earth, and was released when the time of the Gentiles (Luke 21:24) was nearly over But I, through my studies, believe it is AD 752 that is the most likely date, when the temporal dominion of the popes began by Pepin's grant to Stephen II (for Zachary, his predecessor's recognition of his title to France), confirmed by Charlemagne, who also is believed to be the fourth of seven Anti-Christs, with the seventh being the last. For it was then first that the little horn plucked up three horns, and so became the prolongation of the fourth secular kingdom. (Some believe the sixth Anti-Christ to have been Hitler) This would bring us down to about A.D. 2012. A year that I figured out long before the History channel came out with it. But that is only at the end of man’s flawed understanding of the 1,000 year reign of Christ. Daniel said 1260 days/years, not an even 1,000. The Bible plainly tells a person that at the end of the reign of Christ; Satan will be released to gather his army from the four quarters of the earth (Revelation 20:7-8), and one must allow time for that. Therefore, Satan was likely released sometime in the last 100 years or so.
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  • ReconMarine~AVA/POTL/JLA/PWCM 2012/10/01 19:37:41
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    Hes is Right...WE Need to Stand Up to Supression and Our Rights Being Taken away by this Admin, through EO's he has Signed....
    The LEFT is not the Only segment of Our Society with Freedom Of Speech Rights, No Matter What They Think...
  • Dagon 2012/10/01 19:32:58
  • ElisaGalvan 2012/10/01 19:20:43
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    HE HAS RIGHTS!!!! LIKE THE REST OF US CITIZENS!!! YAY FOR HIM!!!
  • dubbie 2012/10/01 19:04:53
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    As we stand in the shadows of Socialism, Liberty has no fear , Our freedom will never betray us, And our voice will be heard before the coming of the New Year
  • rightside 2012/10/01 19:00:08
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    Been listening to this and by all means Pastors and others CAN speak up about things we should be looking for in those we vote for.
  • jr 2012/10/01 18:59:41
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    I stand up for my right to speak freely and applaud this man that stands up for all our free speech rights
  • Maddog 2012/10/01 18:51:36
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    Excellent!
  • lindasue 2012/10/01 18:51:04
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    I wonder how many Attorney's are specializing in this?? Great field to be in now. About time we all said NO!!!
  • freethinker 2012/10/01 18:49:55
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    I will Never let my country be over taken by UnAmericans without a fight!!
  • Dwight-AFCL>dogsbody 2012/10/01 18:44:54
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    Someone always has to be willing to take the door!
  • Barbi Rose 2012/10/01 18:38:35
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    Sounds like a plan!
  • Kat 2012/10/01 18:33:40
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    Man makes sense. Need more decent lawyers.

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