{"id":85,"date":"2009-10-23T04:42:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T04:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endofamericabook.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2017-02-01T04:43:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T04:43:30","slug":"so-much-for-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endofamericabook.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/23\/so-much-for-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"So Much for Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This was a difficult week for free speech. Chapter 6 of <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">The End of America<\/em> looks at the potential for the federal government interfering with free speech rights \u2013 by curtailing freedom of the press and by prohibiting \u201chate speech\u201d by law. Both events occurred this week. First, the White House tried to prohibit Fox News from attending a major news conference (announcement regarding limits on executive pay). Only a refusal to attend by the other five news networks stopped this onslaught on First Amendment freedom of the press. Secondly, the Congress passed and sent to the President the \u201cFederal Hate Crimes Act\u201d. Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said the new law is <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">\u201cpart of a radical social agenda that could ultimately silence Christians and use the force of government to marginalize anyone whose faith is at odds with homosexuality.\u201d <\/em><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Persecution of the church by the Daughter of Babylon\/America is one of the prophesied end times occurrences that will come before her destruction. (Isaiah 47:1-6)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a difficult week for free speech. Chapter 6 of The End of America looks at the potential for the federal government interfering with free speech rights \u2013 by curtailing freedom of the press and by prohibiting \u201chate speech\u201d by law. Both events occurred this week. First, the White House tried to prohibit Fox &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/endofamericabook.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/23\/so-much-for-free-speech\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So Much for Free Speech&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endofamericabook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endofamericabook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endofamericabook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endofamericabook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endofamericabook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/endofamericabook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/endofamericabook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endofamericabook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endofamericabook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endofamericabook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}