[Vision2020] Tweets from the Cairo Embassy

[Paul Rumelhart]

Nobody was threatening anybody's freedom of religion.  Criticism or satire or parody or whatever the YouTube video contained (haven't watched it) does not threaten anyone's freedom of religion.  They might get offended, but so what?  Don't watch the video if it offends you.

If someone offends me and I attack them with automatic rifles and grenade launchers, guess what?  I'm at fault for attacking them, not the person that offended me.

If we're going to saddle free speech with a bunch of "as long as you are not dissing Islam or making someone feel bad" caveats, then we might as well do away with the whole idea altogether.

Paul




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 From: Moscow Cares <moscowcares at moscow.com>
To: Nicholas Gier <ngier006 at gmail.com> 
Cc: vision2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Tweets from the Cairo Embassy
 

The freedoms of religion and speech are the very cornerstones of our culture here in the Nifty Fifty (USA).

But when one's freedom of speech threatens another's freedom of religion, what is to be done?

Although the YouTube video, in question, seriously insulted a religious deity, consequently resulting in the murders of four Americans . . .

Are we to hold a person into account for their freedom of speech (albeit inappropriate)?

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students.  The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)

On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Nicholas Gier <ngier006 at gmail.com> wrote:


Good Morning Visionaries,
>Once again Romney shows that he is not qualified to be president, and certainly not the leader of the free world.  He has demonstrated that he has no inkling of what diplomacy and a bipartisan foreign policy is all about.
>Perhaps I'm a little dense, but why would any of these tweets require deleting?  Just as close examination of Obama's foreign policy statements have shown, there is not hint of apology here or undermining "American" principles.
>The Twitter account of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo is deleting tweets it sent out regarding an anti-Muslim film by a filmmaker in the U.S. after a diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Libya was killed by crowd protesting the video. All of the relevant Tweets are reprinted below, some of which have now been deleted by the Embassy. 
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