Who Would Jesus Vote For? » Briton http://wwjv4.com A liberal political/religious blog calling attention to the rampant hypocrisy of the far right Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:39:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Lyrical Terrorist Free http://wwjv4.com/miscellaneous/lyrical-terrorist-free-162 http://wwjv4.com/miscellaneous/lyrical-terrorist-free-162#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:25:54 +0000 Bill Ludwig http://wwjv4.com/miscellaneous/lyrical-terrorist-free-162 Samina Malik A.K.A the Lyrical Terrorist, who was convicted of thought crimes has escaped a long prison sentence (( 12/7/2007 The New York Times Britain: ‘Lyrical Terrorist’ Spared Prison )) . Instead of the 10 years she could have been sentenced she was given a suspended 9 month sentence. Obviously this show of compassion and dare we say common sense from the courts was the right choice. History has shown that you cannot destroy a message by censoring and punishing the writers. Instead in the face of oppression the message only flourashes and grows.

See the story I wrote last month “What’s On Your Bookshelf” for more information on this story and my take on it.

As bad as Samina Malik’s situation was I cant help but think it would be worse in America. I would like some help on this one though. I simply do not have the time to properly research this so I was hoping one of you will. What protections would an American have in the same situation now that Habeas Corpus has been destroyed?

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