While Al-Jazeera English fights for its right to remain on Vermont as Will and Hanaan highlight, and fend off spear attacks by neocons and zionuts, it fights another battle to protect its rights and staff in Morocco.
The trial of Al Jazeera's bureau chief in Morocco, on charges of conspiracy and spreading false information, has resumed after a stormy first hearing on Tuesday.I love how in the news round up at the end of the Vermont debate video below, the story of efforts in the US to ban Al-Jazeera from air waives gets brilliantly rolled up with stories of China and Zimbabwe’s crack downs on the freedom of press.
Mohammed el-Alaoui, the presiding judge, had rejected an appeal by the defence team for more time to better prepare for the case, giving lawyers for Hassan Rachidi only three days to get ready.
The second court session opened at the Rabat First Instance Court on Friday.
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In May, Morocco suspended Al Jazeera's daily television news bulletin covering the Maghreb countries (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania) from its studios in the Moroccan capital.
The decision, according to Khalid Naciri, the Moroccan communication minister and spokesman for the government, was due to technical and legal issues.
Rachidi is facing prosecution under Article 42 of the country's press code.
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While Al-Jazeera English fights for its right to remain on Vermont...
Al Jazeera has no "right" to remain in Vermont. What are you smoking? lol. It is the citizens of Vermont who have rights, not a foreign news agency. You don't get the whole concept of Freedom of the Press, do you? It's based on the rights of the people to receive information, not the right of somebody else to transmit it. Dude, if you want to be a propagandist, you should at least understand where your right to engage in such activity without being sent to prison comes from.
does fox news have a right to be on the air?
"you should at least understand where your right to engage in such activity without being sent to prison comes from."
Where's that? The firebombing of Tokyo? Or maybe Baghdad? Tell us, O great purveyor of civil liberties.
How dare anyone want to see what is actually going on. Shut it down now. Americans aren't savvy enough to decide things for themselves. Well wait, that's obviously true. Example: you.
We sure as hell are not going to rely someone who, from what I've read, is only here to rape this country tell us what we should be watching.
FOX news has the highest viewership or any cable news channel. It earned the right to airtime and affiliates by competing in a free market.
You have chosen to ignore that Al Jazeera English is already available in many parts of the country via satellite, as we discussed on a previous post.
What you are discussing is FORCE FEEDING Americans a news channel that spews the propaganda that YOU prefer, against market forces and using public money!
Our relationship with China is just as or more important than our relationship with the Middle East. Why aren't you arguing for a Chinese English language news channel to be made available?
You're a hypocrite. You don't give a rat's rear about opening people's eyes to other perspectives. You only care that YOUR perspective is forced on others, in order that this country can be manipulated to serve your people's interests.
does fox news have a right to be on the air?
No, in point of fact, they don't. Did you have a question with a less obvious answer to direct at me? because I really hate stupid questions... almost as much as I hate stupid blog posts.
Where's that? The firebombing of Tokyo? Or maybe Baghdad? Tell us, O great purveyor of civil liberties.
Don't pretend like you care about civil liberties, Safiyyah. You weren't born Muslim, you converted as an adult. You voluntarily accepted Sharia as your law. You have no civil liberties, nor do you want them. You have only the rights and liberties that some (male) Muslim clerics decide you should have.
How dare anyone want to see what is actually going on. Shut it down now. Americans aren't savvy enough to decide things for themselves. Well wait, that's obviously true. Example: you.
And again, it is necessary for me to point out to the anglo American christian woman who lives in redneckville and converted to Islam as an adult that she may not be the best one to proclaim what is "really going on" in the United States? lol. Do you even know what is going on in your own (Christian) family? I doubt it.
SHALOM! Prg Craig you talk so much on an issue that you have no understanding of. If you love Israel so much how come you are not in the IDF or are you only full of talk? You make dialog so hostile. Settle down friend.
~Chaim~
If you love Israel so much
When did you ever see me say I "love" Israel? When have you ever even seen me TALK about Israel?
how come you are not in the IDF or are you only full of talk?
Well, that might be an option for me if I was Israeli. It might even be an option for me if I was Jewish. But if you've been reading this blog (you are one of the bloggers here right?) then you know I'm Christian. And you also know I was an infantryman in the US Marines for 6 years. Where I did a lot of time "talking" and downloading propaganda from the internet. Just like you. There's a picture of me doing that in my profile. Just like you.
PC, thank you for your service.
Chaim, if you love Islamofascists so much, why aren't you joining up with Hamas?
I haven't been reading this blog long enough, but obviously PC and the gang here have a history. On a daily basis he is assaulted by a barrage of insults ranging from speaking about his wife to his service to g-d knows what.
For a people so sensitive they launched deadly global riots after someone drew their Prophet with a bomb in his keffiyeh, you sure feel yourself free to insult others at the first opportunity.
Does PC go cry to his mommy like the little bitch NarcelX and others on this blog? No, he reloads and empties his clip in your asses (so many jokes to make, so little time).
To say that HE is the cause of the "hostile" dialogue is like me shooting you in the foot and then sending you a bill for the blood you got on my clothes.
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