What ever happened to "Give me liberty, or give me death?"

Or "We pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor"?

Here is LiveLeak's statement on why they pulled Fitna:

Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed reports from certain corners of the British media that could directly lead to the harm of some of our staff, Liveleak.com has been left with no other choice but to remove Fitna from our servers.

This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above all else. We would like to thank the thousands of people, from all backgrounds and religions, who gave us their support. They realised LiveLeak.com is a vehicle for many opinions and not just for the support of one.

Perhaps there is still hope that this situation may produce a discussion that could benefit and educate all of us as to how we can accept one anothers culture.

We stood for what we believe in, the ability to be heard, but in the end the price was too high.

"In the end the price was too high" could be the epitaph of the Free West.

I understand their concern for their employees -- sure. The employees didn't sign up for this. But if Americans and Westerners and all people who are threatened by the global jihad and Islamic supremacism aren't willing to give their lives for this cause, then all is lost. Because the jihadists certainly are willing to give their lives for their cause. For them, no price is too high. And if any price is too high for us, then ultimately all we will have to pay is jizya.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020487.php

If Organized Crime Ran The World……

.....there wouldn’t have been the type of news coverage that told us all about the John Gotti trial and his history of extortion and murder. Freedom of the press would be a thing of the past. No gang wants the truth told about them

There wouldn’t be the freedom to critisize the way they do things. Threats and intimidation and even murder would be the price you’d pay if you dared speak up

There would be no compromise. You’d have to follow in rigid lockstep with their dogma or accept a status as a second or third class citizen. If you wouldn’t or couldn’t become a “made man” you’d have to pay the vig, a tax just to live.

Your women would become property. Crime syndicates are notoriously male oriented, often to the point of mysogyny. A woman’s place is to do what she’s told when she’s told to do it. It can pretty rough on her if she doesn’t

The world wouldn’t put up with any of that if it were the mafia trying to take over, so I’m wondering just how it is that Islam, with its blatant thuggery and downright viciousness, is being allowed to bully its way into the lives of so, so many.

The Fitna film is just one of the latest examples. There is not a thing in that film that is not the absolute truth . Nobody made up those pictures of them standing there with those signs, nobody made up the horrid, inhuman beheading it showed, nobody made up the hateful preaching of their mullahs in the film. It’s THEM. It even quotes their own holy book that they use to justify their barbarism and yet in their usual way they’ve threatened to harm (meaning kill) the staff of Live Leak, one of the first to host it over here, if they don’t take it off their site. So they took it down

And that’s my point: If an organized crime syndicate did the same thing the entire might of U.S. and European law enforcement would come down on them like a ton of bricks. Will the threats against the Live Leak staff get the same treatment? Probably not. Islam gets a pass. I don’t get it

This is an incredible thing we’re watching develop right before our very eyes. Western civilization is being openly threatened by what is basically a murderous cult. They don’t even hide or attempt to hide their intention to destroy our way of life and to use murder, even mass murder, to do it. And. We. Do. Nothing. In fact, we do worse than nothing. We invite them into our countries, we offer them a standard of living - and freedoms - that would never be allowed in their home nations. And they unabashedly use those freedoms to preach their hatred of us. And we let them

We’re allowing an organized crime syndicate to dictate policy all through Western society.

The Islamists have discovered that their tactics work. Frighten people and they’ll do what you want. The train bombings in Spain are a great example of that. Spain immediately tucked tail and ran from Iraq. The Islamists won through mass murder. If Spain’s reaction had been just the opposite and they had sent divisions of troops to Iraq in response instead of running away the use of this type of intimidation may not be as effective as it is. And ANY nation that is similarly attacked or threatened with attack should do the same. Punch a bully in the nose and he quickly learns to leave you alone

Every website out there should host the Fitna film. And every country that is threatened should respond aggressively, forcefully, and with the clear message that if you don’t want to live here by our rules go back to those hell holes we’ve allowed you to escape from.

They’re afraid of the truth and things like the Fitna film is telling the truth.

And in their world telling the truth is enough to get you killed. 

http://www.kxmc.com/News/Nation/223734.asp