http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/kill-bill-killians-assault-on-freedom-of-speech
As I noted in my last column, “The Stinking Badges of Our Federales” (June 2nd), the Department of Justice is again on the attack against freedom of speech. The occasion for this guerilla attack is a talk to be given by United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee Bill Killian during an event sponsored by the American Muslim Advisory Council of Tennessee.
His talk will be about civil rights restrictions on speech in the “social media” as it applies to Muslims – that is, speech that criticizes Muslims and Islam, not speech by Muslims that could be defined as “bigoted” or “hateful” – and there is far, far more of that than there is of the occasional nose-thumbing of Muslims and Islam). It will be about “inflammatory speech,” which could mean anything, even a scholarly disquisition on the origins and practice of Islam. Judicial Watch reports that the event, called “Public Disclosure in a Diverse Society,” will
feature the region’s top DOJ official, who serves as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and an FBI representative. The goal is to increase awareness and understanding that American Muslims are not the terrorists some have made them out to be in social media and other circles, according to a local newspaper report. The June 4 powwow is sponsored by the American Muslim Advisory Council of Tennessee.
The area’s top federal prosecutor, Bill Killian, will address a topic that most Americans are likely unfamiliar with, even those well versed on the Constitution; that federal civil rights laws can actually be violated by those who post inflammatory documents aimed at Muslims on social media. “This is an educational effort with civil rights laws as they play into freedom of religion and exercising freedom of religion,” Killian says in the local news story. “This is also to inform the public what federal laws are in effect and what the consequences are.”
So, civil rights laws will be “interpreted” to identify “harmful” statements made on Face Book and other social media and help the DOJ and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to lodge suits against anyone expressing his freedom of speech if it offends Muslims and Islam.
Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs is on the warpath and is urging readers near and far to assemble in Manchester, Tennessee to vigorously demonstrate opposition to Killian’s trial balloon of selective censorship in favor of Muslims and Islam.