Gov. "Forced Birth for All the Bitches" Bevin Orders Doctors to Rape Their Patients

Do not fall for the euphemism: "ultrasound" before an abortion refers to jamming a mechanical object deep into a woman's body against her will.  That's Object Rape, and that's what Bevin signing this bill requires.

From the media advisory:

Gov. Matt Bevin will ceremonially sign two historic pro-life measures during the Kentucky Right to Life Association’s annual “Rally for Life” at the Capitol on Wednesday. 
 

More than a dozen state legislators and pro-life advocates from across the Commonwealth will participate in the event, as Gov. Bevin commemorates the recently enacted Senate Bill 5 (protecting unborn children after 20 weeks of gestation) and House Bill 2 (requiring an ultrasound before a pregnancy is terminated), which both passed with broad bipartisan support in the General Assembly.

Yes, Kentucky DINOs are cowardly, misogynistic pieces of shit.  What else is new?

Not this:

State-sanction rape is not enough for Stan "Nobody can have sex that I don't approve of" Lee.

From the Courier:

Many conservatives have touted "defunding" Planned Parenthood as a goal for years, but a new bill targeting that organization potentially could affect a wider range of groups, including churches, if Kentucky's Republican-run legislature approves it.

House Bill 149 would prohibit public funds from going to any organizations or individuals that provide abortion services or are affiliates of that type of group. It includes exceptions for hospitals, universities and medical schools.

The bill's sponsor, Rep. Stan Lee, R-Lexington, said it targets Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, which currently doesn't provide abortions in the state. Critics say the legislation could prevent other organizations from getting public money.

"This legislation is directed at essentially defunding Planned Parenthood," Lee said. “This was designed to ... make sure there wasn’t a way for them to kind of sidestep this requirement, get around it and obtain funding.”

Lee said he filed HB 149 because he didn't think a similar bill in the state Senate went far enough in terms of preventing Planned Parenthood from getting a shot at public funding.

Under his bill, an organization wouldn't have to perform abortions to be considered an abortion-services provider. The bill says abortion services also include providing referrals to or information about facilities where abortions are performed as well as "providing counseling, advice, written materials or other information that encourages or promotes abortion."

 

Yeah, it's an unconstitutional gag rule and completely typical of Stan "No saying anything I don't want you to say" Lee.

 

Somebody need to start counting the bodies of all the Kentucky women who now cannot get health care anywhere.

Free

PZ Myers:

Free speech does not mean there are no limitations on what you can say, it just means the government can’t control the expression of opinions. You still don’t get to yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater, or commit libel with impunity, or be obnoxious without social repercussions.

You even have the right to use words like ni**er and cunt and spic and raghead.  And when you do, everyone else has the right to call you out for being a  racist, sexist, motherfucking bigot.

Repug KY Judge Gives Freakazoid "Right" to Newspaper Space

No, Tatenhove: the First Amendment does not confer the right to have your words published in a private company's newspaper.

No, Tatenhove: the First Amendment does not bar "censorship" by private companies.  The ban on speech applies only to government entities.

No, Tatenhove: PopeyFrankie's implicit endorsement of freakazoid imposition of xian sharia does not give you the authority to impose Dominionism on the Commonwealth.

Greg Kocher at the Herald:

A federal judge found an effort by the Kentucky Board of Examiners of Psychology to censor the parenting advice of nationally syndicated newspaper columnist John Rosemond to be unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove ruled Wednesday that the board had "unconstitutionally applied" state regulations to Rosemond's advice column. Van Tatenhove also permanently enjoined the board from "enforcing these laws in an unconstitutional manner against Rosemond or others similarly situated.

SNIP

The origins of the case date to Feb. 12, 2013, when the Lexington Herald-Leader ran one of Rosemond's columns, "Living with Children." Rosemond advised that the teen, who he referred to as a "highly spoiled underachiever," was "in dire need of a major wake-up call."

He described what actions might be taken, including taking away electronic devices and suspending his privileges until he improved his grades. The article bore the tagline: "Family psychologist John Rosemond answers parents' questions on his website at Rosemond.com." This is typical of the taglines affixed to Rosemond's articles.

After Rosemond's article ran, a complaint was filed with the Kentucky Board of Examiners of Psychology. The complainant, a formerly licensed Kentucky psychologist, characterized Rosemond's advice as "unprofessional and unethical." He also expressed concern that Rosemond claimed to be a psychologist when he wasn't licensed in Kentucky.

SNIP

It is against Kentucky law to practice psychology without a state license, or to use the title "psychologist" without having a state license. Rosemond does not hold a Kentucky license, but he is a licensed psychological associate in North Carolina. He is routinely identified as a "family psychologist" in a note at the end of his columns.

Rosemund is a freakazoid promoter of xian sharia who promotes beatings even for toddlers.  Tatenhove is a former aide to Mitch McConnell and fervent Catlick who belongs on late-night TV peddling disability claim advice.


And the Herald is cowardly for not just canceling Rosemund's column.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2015/10/01/4066241/federal-judge-rules-in-favor-of.html#storylink=cpy

Boycott Yes; Censorship, No

Stay the fuck away from Chik-Fil-A. Boycott the hate-mongering, homophobic, freakazoid motherfuckers. But don't let the shitty place bait us into violating the Constitution.

Chik-Fil-A is a blight on the University of Louisville campus, as it is everywhere it pollutes public space. But it's also a monument to the stupendous power of the First Amendment to protect our fundamental identity as Americans.

Goverment cannot censor speech - any speech. The cure for wrong speech is not less speech; it is more. Don't like what someone is saying? Make your case against it.

Go ahead, you hateful homophobic motherfuckers: shout your stupidity at the top of your lungs. We will respond by shouting facts, reality, humanity and progress at the top of ours.

And the best argument will win.

Occupy the Racist Censorship

"Librotraficantes." I love it.

Students and activists set up ‘Underground Libraries’ of books prohibited in suspended Mexican American Studies classrooms.

Watch the video here.

Pants-Pissing Repug Mayor Terrified of a Movie

Keep doing this, repug cowards. And pay no attention to the laughter and finger-pointing.

Peter Rothenberg in The Nation:

In a blatant display of disregard for the First Amendment, Scott R. Kaupin, the Republican mayor of Enfield, Connecticut has forced that town's public library to cancel a showing of the Michael Moore film, Sicko, a 2007 documentary on healthcare reform. The film, a 2007 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary, was planned as part of the library's nonfiction series.

But, bowing to pressure from the Town Council and a mayoral threat to cut off funding for the library if the film were screened, the library reluctantly cancelled the program.

As Mayor Kaupin rather thuggishly told the Journal Inquirer, "“The sentiment by the Council majority is that it’s a poor choice and that they should definitely reconsider. And if they don’t reconsider, then they’re going to have the repercussions of the council." The Library's director Henry Dutcher told the paper that he could not think of any other occasion when the council intervened in the library’s programming and had a film pulled.

Councilwoman Cynthia Mangini, a Democrat, was the only council member to speak against the move, calling it censorship and a violation of First Amendment rights, likening the move to banning books.

I agree. The library has a long-standing process of selecting films for this series.

If the Council feels it necessary, it can ask that the series be extended to include other films; it can sponsor a public forum with critics of Obama's healthcare plan to discuss the issues; it can even stage a competing film festival drawn exclusively from whatever political perspective it wants. But forcing the doc's cancellation is in the worst tradition of American debate, discourse and democracy.

As the Connecticut Library Association argued in a letter of protest to Kaupin, "public libraries should be a pillar of our American democracy and that democracy depends on an informed citizenry. People should be able to go their public library to read or view a wide variety of books and films about controversial topics and then make up their minds. Censoring the choices that people have or silencing the opposition is an insult to our form of government. The public library is supposed to be a battle ground for ideas."

Yeah, tell me again about how the conservatards are all about liberty and freedom.

Hands Off Twain, You Illiterate Motherfuckers

One of the many reasons freakazoids, rethuglicans and other conservatards are successful in implementing outrageous anti-American policies and actions is that their proposals are so over-the-top insane that liberals are left flabbergasted and speechless with shock.

Like ripping the living heart right out of the Greatest American Novel ever written.

Bon The Geek is not intimidated:

A new edition of Huckleberry Finn is about to be released. This scrubbed version will have no instances of the "N" word, and the word "Injun" is also replaced throughout Twain's novel. Twain expert Alan Gribben insists he is not trying to censor classic literature, but to update. Epic fail. Classic literature does not need to be updated, that is what makes it classic.

Let's look at some of our classics. To Kill A Mockingbird shows us an ugly time in the South, and a glimpse of how rural life really was for millions. Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men is brutal and painful, and the characters are not the least bit respectful towards the mentally handicapped. Speaking of mentally handicapped, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest was miles from politically correct. It is still one of the best stories I've ever read, mainly for its ability to make my heart hurt at the injustice. Don't even get me started on Gone With The Wind. We are not parrots, the purpose of reading is to use the mind and expand our ideas. Most will not mindlessly flinch at the use of an offensive word, but the anger or outrage we may feel at what once passed for common can inspire us, and help us realize the roots of the words we speak and the culture we came from. Good art, no matter the medium, inspires thought and stirs our emotions. And the person who decides what goes into that art is the artist himself.

Nobody has the right to alter someone's work in this manner. Nobody has the right to decide what we read. This is no more appropriate than if we try to scrub Snoop Dogg's lyrics for our great-grandchildren. If you do not want to be exposed, then exercise your rights to choose what you read. Do not exercise your rights on the behalf of others, who are free to feel differently. This isn't about the N word, folks. It is about respecting art, context, history and the lives that people lived for good and for bad. If Gribben feels there should be a lighter version of this story, then perhaps he should write one. What he should not do is lead a campaign to alter the art that someone else worked over, and put their heart and best into, and decide what Twain should have said.

Twain, who spent a lot of words ridiculing the know-nothing puritans of his own time, would appreciate the irony.

Censoring Hiroshima

I remember first hearing in high school, more than 30 years ago, the assertion that the U.S. atomic attack on Japan was a war crime. I rejected it out of hand. I'd been reading a lot about the Holocaust in Europe, and believed passionately that the Nazi extermination of 10 million innocent civilians was a war crime. America dropping bombs on an enemy didn't remotely approach what I considered a war crime.

I had been well and truly indoctrinated.

Greg Mitchell explains:

This Friday marks the 65th anniversary of the first use of the atomic bomb against a large city. Since that day, creative artists of every variety have made incisive, satiric or powerful statements about nuclear threat. They have offered cautionary works that depict the horror of the bomb or its meaning in our society. What these artistic statements share, however, with rare exceptions, is an avoidance of the specific subject of Hiroshima.

Since August 1945, hundreds of "nuclear" movies have appeared. At least one American "nuclear" film was a work of genius (Dr. Strangelove), and several others explored the issue thoughtfully (Fail-Safe, The War Game, Testament and Desert Bloom come to mind). But more often the fear of nuclear war in Hollywood spawned survivalist fantasies, irradiated-monster films and post-apocalypse thrillers.

What is striking is that few of these films say anything directly about Hiroshima. Almost all of them are works of pure fiction, imagining nuclear attacks in the near or distant future while ignoring the two instances when atomic weapons have already been used: Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

Only three Hollywood movies have emerged about the making or use of the first atomic bombs: The Beginning or the End, Above and Beyond, and Fat Man and Little Boy (the only such film since the 1950s).

Ambivalence or guilt is certain to be evoked by any cinematic treatment of Hiroshima. Perhaps that is why the films all grapple with the notion of American decency. The three Hollywood films have much in common: Each was highly touted and directed by a talented film maker but was an artistic failure. Each was subject to political pressure or scrutiny. Here's a close-up look at the "coverup"--led by the Truman White House--of the first "Hiroshima movie," some of it based on material we were first to discover at the Truman Library in Missouri.

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Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009

To our shame, we missed all but a handful of these.

* 1. US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street
* 2. US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s
* 3. Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates
* 4. Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina
* 5. Europe Blocks US Toxic Products
* 6. Lobbyists Buy Congress
* 7. Obama’s Military Appointments Have Corrupt Past
* 8. Bailed out Banks and America’s Wealthiest Cheat IRS Out of Billions
* 9. US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza
* 10. Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate
* 11. Private Corporations Profit from the Occupation of Palestine
* 12. Mysterious Death of Mike Connell—Karl Rove’s Election Thief
* 13. Katrina’s Hidden Race War
* 14. Congress Invested in Defense Contracts
* 15. World Bank’s Carbon Trade Fiasco
* 16. US Repression of Haiti Continues
* 17. The ICC Facilitates US Covert War in Sudan
* 18. Ecuador’s Constitutional Rights of Nature
* 19. Bank Bailout Recipients Spent to Defeat Labor
* 20. Secret Control of the Presidential Debates
* 21. Recession Causes States to Cut Welfare
* 22. Obama’s Trilateral Commission Team
* 23. Activists Slam World Water Forum as a Corporate-Driven Fraud
* 24. Dollar Glut Finances US Military Expansion
* 25. Fast Track Oil Exploitation in Western Amazon

Click here for the links to each one of the 25.

Our top blogging resolution for 2010 is to make Project Censored a site we check every day for stories nobody else is covering.

Commies Trying to Take Over in Nicholasville

This is how the Commies controlled people in Russia and China and North Korea: government employees deciding what people could and could not read, even overruling parents' decisions about their own children.

And it's happening again. Not, as you might think, in some Obama-worshipping socialist hell-hole like San Francisco, but in fine, upstanding, conservative Jessamine County, Kentucky.

It's enough to make Baby Jeebus cry.

(Jessamine County Public Library employee Sharon Cook) removed the book from circulation. She checked it out over and over and over with her library card until a patron of the library, unaware of the circumstances of the book, put a hold on it, asking to be the next in line to check it out.

When Cook went to renew The Black Dossier on Sept. 21, the computer would not allow it because of the hold. Cook used her employee privileges to find out that the patron desiring the book was an 11-year-old girl.

This would not do.

On Sept. 22, Cook told two of her colleagues at the library about her dilemma, and Beth Boisvert made a decision. She would take the book off hold, thus disallowing the child — or the child's parents — ever to see the book.

NAZIS! COMMIES! HUGO CHAVEZ!

Fortunately, the two UnAmericans were quickly fired by the patriotic Library Board. After all, denying American Citizens the freedom to read whatever they want and to decide what their children read - why, that's what the Mooslin Terrists are trying to do!

But instead of celebrating this triumph of Real American Values, a bunch of religious and political fanatics have attacked the loyal, patriotic library board for firing those two commies. They are demanding that the board not only reinstate the two, but change library policy to actually require government control over who gets to read what.

Next Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 3:30 p.m., the Jessamine County Library Board will hear public comment on this vicious attack on the Constitution.

Members of the public who wish to speak at the Nov. 18 meeting will have to sign up on a “speaker list” prior to the meeting. On the list, they will have to record their names, addresses and topics of their comments, as well as designating whether or not they hold a JCPL library card.

The list will be available for sign-up Thursday morning until 3:15 p.m. on Nov. 18 — 15 minutes before the board meeting. In addition to signing up on the list, speakers will have to sign in at the meeting as present. The board decided to allot one hour of time for public comments at the November meeting and to divide that time equally by the number of registered speakers. Individual speakers will have no more than 15 minutes unless the board president grants an extension.

Priority will be given to speakers who are residents of Jessamine County or hold a JCPL library card.

The library opens at 9 a.m. on Wednesday. Get there early, get a free JCPS library card, sign up to speak and then pass the time by browsing the shelves for material the fascists don't want you to have.

For the sake of the Founding Fathers, who are spinning in their graves at this attempt to destroy the republican freedoms they fought and died for, don't let Those Who Hate Our Freedoms force censorship on The Children.

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