All Over The Earth, Bloggers Go To Prison

Elaine Meinel Supkis

An Egyptian law student is being sent to prison and torture in our allied country, Egypt, for posting political analysis on the internet. The Iman kidnapped by the CIA demands justice and freedom but will probably go back to prison for daring to talk about his torture in public and Ernest Zundel is sentenced to harsh prison conditions for doubting the Holocaust. This is all ridiculous and evil.

Of course, Condi recently praised the dictator of Egypt.

Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman has been detained since November [AP]

An Alexandria court has convicted an Egyptian blogger for insulting both Islam and the Egyptian president, sentencing him to four years in jail over his writings on the internet.

During the trial, an Egyptian imam allegedly kidnapped by CIA agents in Italy and taken to Egypt, showed up to speak to the media, breaking his release conditions.

Known as Abu Omar, the former Milan-based imam on Thursday told reporters that he was tortured in an Egyptian prison and that he wants to return to Italy.

He showed the cameras scars he said were from torture in Egyptian jails and said he will resort to the Italian government to help him.

Thanks to the Founding Fathers, we still have freedom of speech here in the USA. But they are trying to eliminate this as much as possible and before the internet, it didn't matter much because anything outsiders wrote would be ignored safely but now we can be read by anyone who wants to click on our URLs. I have readers all over the earth, most of them come via my cartoons which can be googled. Others type in key words and get my site. Of course, the government could do tricks like get search engines to boycott irritating writers like myself but so far, this hasn't happened to me...yet.

As the economic system here deteriorates and as our wars go from bad to worse, I am expecting a crackdown on us internet users who pass on information the government wants ignored.

Of course, much of our media don't mind carrying stories about the Egyptian kid being punished for writing intelligent analysis online. They might even feel sort of sorry for him but since Egypt is part of our empire and we pay the dictator there a ton of money to keep the Palestinians penned into Gaza and starving to death...a recent story claims 50% of the them, mostly children, are starving to death, the media isn't going to hammer Mubarak.

Egypt seethes with hatred for the USA. This young blogger is a liberal and thus, a future important person with whom we should be planning to do business: he wants our sort of political system! For crying out loud. He isn't a radical conservative seeking cutting ties! But he will emerge from his prison hell a radical Muslim. This is absolute. And he might lead a future army against us. We can't tell. Maybe he will simply be murdered in prison, a more likely situation since we rule with an iron fist.

Meanwhile, Germany puts a man in prison for Holocaust denial!

February 5, 2007

My Dear Jeff

Greetings to you from Mannheim Prison...my fifth prison in the last four years. This must be some kind of record for a man not yet convicted of anything. But that, too, will change soon - for we are in the last days of what passes for a 'judicial' proceeding here.

Jeff, NO American could believe - without actually having experienced it - what is going on here. The unfamiliar or the non-initiated could simply not believe that in an otherwise modern nation, proceedings like these could actually take place.

This totally infurates me. We get hosed with holocaust this and holocaust museum that and most of our media is owned by open Zionists and many reporters and commentators and neo cons and so on are Jewish and they have a huge influence on the stream of information in the world and they put this poor man in prison for his itty bitty webpage?

IS THIS DEMOCRACY??? IS GERMANY A NAZI STATE????

It is. The lesson of the Holocaust wasn't 'killing Jews is bad' but 'fascists who destroy our rights are evil.' The blogger left wing never mentions any of this. The Zionist organizations supposedly for free speech and democracy are silent or want this sort of misrule extended to America! My nation!

The rank attacks on Jimmy Carter disgusted me. The abuse of the Palestinian people nauseates me. Turning Germany into a Nazi prison state that puts people in prison for disputes about history is evil.

Turkey won't allow Kurds to dispute history, they are put in prison. Turkey is an ally of the USA. Turkey won't let our Congress talk about the Armenian Holocaust! But then Japan won't let us talk about them raping school girls during WWII, either. And the key to all this is, states are using their power to prevent history from being discussed or acted on. Why the left bloggers can't see the dangers to themselves for ignoring this important news irritates me.

Deliberately ignoring this loss of freedom is dangerous for any blogger or web master put in prison for merely TALKING about history or the news means you or I can be put in prison too! What if I go to Germany again and am arrested like the English historian was arrested in Austria, because I wrote something that angered someone over there? I write all sorts of stuff!

A blogger in Russia is going to prison for making fun of Putin! He is a victim! We are all in this together, left, right and center! No government should imprison ANYONE for discussing current affairs or mocking leaders. This is tyranny of the most evil sort.

And Zundel says it very well indeed:

When I try to explain to them that in America one could write about and discuss virtually any topic without the ever-present threat of being arrested, tried, convicted, fined and even imprisoned for just thinking or writing about things other than the orthodox, generally accepted viewpoints, seems unbelievable to most. They respond as if one is feeding them some kind of American propaganda. Thus, I often feel like a fish out of water.

Our nation was founded by people who ardently believed in freedoms (even as they were slave owners, alas!). Now that we have freed the slaves, we have to keep this freedom. And ignoring people losing their freedom just because we don't agree with them is stupid. We have to stand united! Or we all fall.

We have been steadily losing freedoms thanks to attacks on the left and the right as both sides of the political spectrum find increasing reasons to interfere with the flow of debate and struggle for hearts and minds. People don't fall for Nazi ideology because it is there, they go for it because it appeals to them just like socialist ideology gains ground as people find it sympathetic to their needs!

And debating all this means being allowed to talk openly and honestly. Lies get defeated by honorable debate, not putting people in prison.

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Comments

[JSmith]

"The lesson of the Holocaust wasn't 'killing Jews is bad' but 'fascists who destroy our rights are evil.' "

Holocaust? What holocaust?? President Ahmadidjeridoo's conference will get to the bottom of this! (I wonder when the findings will be published?)

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

Ever visit the Gaza ghetto?

Our refusal to look at our own crimes condemns us and Israel.

[DeVaul]

I was fined 200 dollars for catching a state court judge lying openly in court. No one stood with me on that day, or complained about his treatment of me. They assumed I was a nobody because I was Deaf.

I suspect that what happened to me will be extended to hearing people also, except for the rich and powerful. They will be fined for pointing out the truth and maybe even imprisoned if they protest being fined.

I was forced to choose between paying a fine to a neo-nazi lawyer or going to prison for stating a simple truth that could not be disputed by the court record or the judge or anyone present.

America already treats its lowest members, the Deaf and illegal aliens, as if they were non-human, so the time will come when everyone else will feel the pain too. It will be interesting to me to watch them whine and complain when they are sent off to prison or lose their children or whatever the state decides should be their fate.

No one will help them. This is America, home of the hypocrit and the liar, land of the debt-slave and sub-human. But fear not, the Jews will all get to the bottom of this -- just as soon as they finish their holocaust museum.

[JSmith]

Oh - OK. I was starting to wonder what you were on about there, but you finally got around to the Hiolocaust.

"America already treats its lowest members, the Deaf and illegal aliens, as if they were non-human, so the time will come when everyone else will feel the pain too. "

Your conclusion does not necessarily follow from your premise.

[DeVaul]

Fascistic societies or even societies that are just plain unjust always lead to war and suffering for all members of that society, even if the offending segment is wiped out. Those who need to feel superior to others will always look for a new group to secretly condemn and persecute, all the while claiming that they are the true victims.

The Jews are just exhibit number one.

Their entire history is one of bouncing back and forth from victim to persecutor. If they are not slaughtering Caananites or Palestinians or denying rights to the Deaf and disabled, they are being enslaved or cleansed. They learn nothing from their own history, but they are not unique in this.

Their treatment of their fellow countrymen will come back to bite them, and the same goes for other one-time minorities.

Is that clearer for you?

[JSmith]

"Is that clearer for you?"

Um... no.