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Monday, 1 May 2006

Media Over Blows Protests

If you were listening to the vast majority of the mainstream media today, you would have thought that the world ground to a halt when Illegal immigration activists cut school and work today.

For example, KCRA spent probably a good one half to two thirds of their 6PM news hour discussing the protests.  They treated it nearly as extensively as they would an election, sending one of their anchors to the street and dispersing reporters to protest sites throughout the region.    At the end of the newscast, Dave Walker asked viewers to tune in at 11 to see “the impacts the boycotts are already having on the US economy.” (more…)

Monday, 1 May 2006

Anti-Abortion Shirt Banned at Public School

Yet another troubling story about censorship of conservative ideas on a public school campus, this time from Wisconsin:

On a recent day, Farnsworth Middle School seventh-grader Zoe Macknick wore a green T-shirt to school with the saying “Help Cure Abortion,” because she said she wanted to express herself.

When the school’s principal, Dave Williams, told the 13-year-old she could not wear the shirt, Zoe became upset.

“It makes me feel ticked off in a way because they let stuff like (heavy metal bands) Marilyn Manson and Slipknot be worn, but they won’t let me wear my T-shirt,” she said about shirts other students wear to school. “I just want to get the message out that abortion is cruel.”
Zoe said her mother, Betty, has told her about the “dangers of abortion and how it hurts a woman’s body.” (more…)