Shawn Sage has been a foster child since the age of two, and the State of California’s foster care system has recently found a new way to try to keep Shawn down. Last October, Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Marilyn Mackel denied Shawn request to join the United States Marine Corp. As a 17yr old [...]
It’s not getting much press here in the U.S., but the backwards government of Belarus has imprisoned Aleksandr Sdvizhkov and set him to three years hard labor for the imagined crime of publishing cartoons containing drawings of Muhammad. These cartoons originally appeared in the Jyllands-Posten in Denmark and sparked a global wave of riots, arson, [...]
The mad mullah’s in Tehran have forcibly shut down nine magazines for… publishing stories and pictures of Western film stars. Thirteen other publications were also warned that they could be next if they fail to obey the dictates of their totalitarian government. The move was accomplished by the “Press Supervisory Board” of Iran’s “Culture Ministry.” [...]
In 2007, Al Qaeda and the Taliban burned 150 schools to the ground, forced 305 more to close, and murdered 105 students and teachers across Afghanistan. Despite Islamist efforts to keep the people of Afghanistan living in poverty and ignorance, almost six million Afghani children are now in school. Approximately one-fourth of these children are [...]
On 22 February, the government censors in Pakistan ordered the popular video sharing site YouTube blocked because the web site was publishing a trailer for a forthcoming film by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders which they fear may portray Islam negatively. Four days later, YouTube censored the video and Pakistan removed the block on YouTube. If [...]
