Free Talk Live - freedom of speech

8th-Grader Is Harassed for Comparing Schools to Slavery

free4all — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:42:44 +0000

ada Williams, a 13-year old eighth grader at School #3 in Rochester, New York, asserted that in her experience, today's education system is a modern-day version of slavery. According to the Fredrick Douglass Foundation of New York, the schools' teachers and administrators were so offended by Williams' essay that they began a campaign of harassment—kicking her out of class and trying to suspend her—that ultimately forced her parents to withdraw her from the school.

Local activist nails Town Council; calls out the gun in the room.

Grey — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:01:30 +0000

John Bush, a local activist from Austin, Tx. was previously banned from speaking to Austin City Council for a year, previously. Finally, Council realizes they can't be dictators forever - and allow the man to speak. Ownage ensues.

Happy 2012! Get fined for singing the National Anthem incorrectly?

Sussex County Angel — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:35:31 +0000

Guess this Senator has never heard of Freedom of Speech... I guess maybe she plans on making it illegal.

Priest is threatened with arrest for exercising freedom of speech

Grey — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:17:07 +0000

In a sick ironic twist a priest is threatened with arrest after calling out city council for throwing out another lowly citizen after he merely criticized council. Welcome to 1984.

Blogger Threatened With Defamation Suit For Writing About TSA 'Rape'

Sgt Jarhead — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:37:32 +0000

Amy Alkon graphically described how she sobbed loudly while a TSA agent put her hands “into” her — four times. She screamed “You raped me” after the LAX patdown and took the agent’s name with plans to file charges of sexual assault.

Woman Going to Court for Plastic Testicles on Bumper

pmfalcon — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 19:14:09 +0000

A South Carolina woman is heading to court for a jury trial over a ticket she was given by police for displaying big, plastic testicles on the back of her pickup truck. Virginia Tice was reportedly given a $445 ticket July 5 that claims she violated the state's obscene bumper sticker law. She was ticketed after pulling into a gas station in her truck with big red fake testicles hanging from the trailer hitch. Police Chief Franco Fuda asked for a jury trial, saying questions of obscenity should be determined by community standards.

‘Tis the Season of DDoS – WikiLeaks Edition | PandaLabs Blog

NonE — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:43:04 +0000

DDoS attacks are flying across the Internet like there is no tomorrow. Just a few days ago, a hacktivist operating under the handle “th3j35t3r” decided to single-handedly take down the Wikileaks website with a DoS tool of his (or their) own creation.

Lawyer jailed for refusing to recite the pledge of allegiance

willlow97 — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:55:04 +0000

Mississippi Chancellor Talmadge Littlejohn sends a lawyer to jail for refusing to recite the pledge of allegiance with the rest of the court.