Geert Wilders was found not guilty of hate speech and discrimination by a Dutch court on Thursday. This is a victory for Mr. Wilders, for the Netherlands, and for freedom of speech. Geert was charged with these ridiculous crimes because his film Fitna quotes the Qu’ran. Yes, the “hate speech” that Geert was charged with [...]
I recently returned from a trip to Burma, officially known as the Union of Myanmar. I could not write for FortLiberty while I was there due to extreme censorship imposed by the unpopular but well entrenched dictatorship. Probably the only surprise during my visit was how little effect economic sanctions appear to be having on [...]
Alan Gross, a 61yr old American, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by the brutal regime of the Cuban Castro brothers. Alan has been held since 2009 when he was arrested for giving a satellite phone to a Jewish group in Cuba. At the time, Gross was working for Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI), [...]
The federal government has lately slid from being ignorant of the Constitution, to ignoring it, to being openly hostile towards it. President Obama himself stood before Congress and verbally abused the Supreme Court for enforcing the First Amendment — this from a man who swore an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of [...]
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council recently banned the Dire Straits’ hit song Money for Nothing from the Canadian airwaves. Amusingly, this was not because the song’s title so aptly described the failed Canadian welfare state, but because of one line in the song which the government felt was offensive to homosexual men. In the song, [...]
Las Damas de Blanco (The Ladies in White) is a group of almost suicidally brave Cuban women. The group formed in 2003 after the Cuban dictatorship arrested seventy-five journalists, librarians, and human rights defenders. The individuals were arrested in clear violation of Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which guarantees [...]
