authfriend wrote: > Here's the section of Gingrich's address that > was about free speech, from his own Web site: > > > NEWT GINGRICH: …The third thing I want to talk about very briefly is > the genuine danger of terrorism in particular terrorists using > weapons of mass destruction and weapons of mass murder, nuclear and > biological weapons. And I want to suggest to you that right now we > should be impaneling people to look seriously at a level of > supervision that we would never dream of if it weren't for the scale > of threats. > > Let me give you two examples. When the British this summer arrested > people who were planning to blow up ten airliners in one day, they > arrested a couple who were going to use their six month old baby in > order to hide the bomb as baby milk. > > Now, if I come to you tonight and said that there are people on the > planet who hate you, and they are 15-25 year old males who are > willing to die as long as they get to kill you, I've simply described > the warrior culture which is the true for 6 or 7 thousand years. > > But, if I come to you and say that there is a couple that hates you > so much that they will kill there six month old baby in order to kill > you, I am describing a level of ferocity, and a level of savagery > beyond anything we have tried to handle. > > And, what is truly freighting [sic] about the British experience is > they are arresting British citizens, born in , speaking English, who > went to British schools, live in British housing, and have good jobs. > > This is a serious long term war, and it will enviably lead us to want > to know what is said in every suspect place in the country, that will > lead us to learn how to close down every website that is dangerous, > and it will lead us to a very severe approach to people who advocate > the killing of Americans and advocate the use of nuclear of > biological weapons. > > And, my prediction to you is that ether [sic] before we lose a city, > or if we are truly stupid, after we lose a city, we will adopt rules > of engagement that use every technology we can find to break up their > capacity to use the internet, to break up their capacity to use free > speech, and to go after people who want to kill us to stop them from > recruiting people before they get to reach out and convince young > people to destroy their lives while destroying us. > > This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about > the first amendment, but I think that the national security threat of > losing an American city to a nuclear weapon, or losing several > million Americans to a biological attack is so real that we need to > proactively, now, develop the appropriate rules of engagement. > > And, I further think that we should propose a Genève convention for > fighting terrorism which makes very clear that those who would fight > outside the rules of law, those who would use weapons of mass > destruction, and those who would target civilians are in fact subject > to a totally different set of rules that allow us to protect > civilization by defeating barbarism before it gains so much strength > that it is truly horrendous. > > This is a sober topic, but I think it is a topic we need a national > dialogue about, and we need to get ahead of the curve rather than > wait until actually we literary lose a city which could literally > happen within the next decade if we are unfortunate. > > http://www.newt.org/backpage.asp?art=3819 Sounds like he's watched too many episodes of "24." :)
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