RMP:
"Because in this Metaphysics of Quality, intellect is a higher level of
evolution, and when a social organization, whether it's nazis, or communists,
or anybody tries to prevent this evolution from taking place that is an immoral
act, that's an evil act. And you see it happening. Once you understand this,
you see it happening in all sorts of places that you wouldn't expect it
normally."
(The MoQ at Oxford)
Obama administration, BP win Muzzle awards
First Amendment Watch
Oil giant BP and the Obama administration were among the winners of the 20th
Annual Jefferson Muzzle awards, a dubious distinction bestowed today by the
Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression to spotlight the
worst censors of the previous year.
BP and the federal government appeared on the list for their roles in
restricting news media access to the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The
Obama administration joins every other presidency over the past 20 years as a
Muzzle winner, said Robert O’Neil, the center’s director. “No administration
has passed unscathed over this time period.”
O’Neil said there was a “sharing of responsibility” between BP and the
administration but there certainly was “evidence of culpability on the part of
the Administration” in limiting media access.
Other Muzzle winners include:
• The Transportation Security Administration, which arrested a passenger who
stripped to his shorts to bare the text of the Fourth Amendment on his chest to
protest increased security measures such as body scans.
• The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, for removing a work of video
art that included an 11-second display of ants on a crucifix.
• The Virginia Department of Corrections, for denying prisoners access to the
book The Jailhouse Lawyer’s Handbook: How to Bring a Federal Lawsuit to
Challenge Violations of Your Rights in Prison.
• Mississippi state court judge Talmadge Littlejohn, who jailed a lawyer for
refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in his courtroom.
• Gail Sweet, director of the Burlington County (N.J.) Library System, for
removing copies ofRevolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology
because she disliked its content.
• The administration at Albemarle (Va.) High School, for destroying all copies
of a school newspaper because it contained an editorial questioning why student
athletes should have to take physical education classes.
• The administration of Hamilton College, a private college in New York, for
requiring male first-year students to attend a seminar titled “She Fears You”
as part of orientation.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=24080
http://www.tjcenter.org/muzzles/muzzle-archive-2011/
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