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To the Friends of
Jon Christian Ryter:
As you can see,
after much pondering, for the first time ever I have loaned my name to
an advocacy group that is working to restore the rights of the American
people. Over the last five or ten years, scores of people who have read
my writings dealing with the efforts of the princes of industry and the
barons of banking and business to very subtlely erase the righrts of the
American people have asked me: "How do I stop this? How do I change
what's happening?" Here's how.
Most politically observant Americans know that last December, on a 3 to
2 party-line vote, the Federal Communications Commission gave itself the
authority to take over the Internet. But what only a few of those politically-observant
Americans knew was, as it was giving itself the authority to regulate
the Internet, the FCC held secret meetings with the major Internet Providers
[IP] where it strong-armed them into self-imposing Fairness Doctrine ("net
neutrality") guidelines on themselves, or face FCC-imposed net neutrality
regulations.
Web-hosting companies are now being leveraged to suspend both Christian
and politically-conservative websites by classifying them as "hate
sites." As a result, according to a Sept. 15, 2011 article in the
Washington Times, Internet media giants are not giving Christian and other
faith-based groups a fair shake. This was the conclusion of a report issued
by the National Religious Broadcasters. The report said that many of the
biggest new Internet sites block Christian content, and they regularly
refuse to take faith-based ads-in particular ads taking a stand against
homosexuality or radical Islam. They claim these websites often "offend"
other users. The FCC fails to consider that the only way those who claim
to be "offended" can be "offended" is by making a
conscious effort to go to that website.
Please CLICK HERE to FAX every Member of U.S.
Congress. Urge them to relaunch the 2005 House of Worship
Free Speech Restoration Act as the House of Worship and
Internet Free Speech Restoration Act of 2011. Congress needs
to restore "pulpit freedom" to America's Christian community
by rescinding the 1954 IRS gag order that revokes the tax-exempt status
of churches and other non-profits who endorse or oppose candidates for
public office. Congress also needs to protect free speech in general
by barring Internet Providers from rescinding 1st Amendment free speech
rights on the Internet because the "party in power"
disagrees with the political or theological views of the individuals or
organizations whose websites are being threatened.
In 1954 when he was running for re-election for the U.S. Senate, Lyndon
B. Johnson was aggressively opposed by two anti-communist non-profits
who were attacking Johnson's socialist agenda. To silence them, Sen. Johnson
inserted language into the IRS code that prohibited non-profits, including
churches, from endorsing or opposing candidates for political office.
Johnson used his office and the IRS to silence his opposition.
This was never a separation of church-and-state issue. This was
a personal issue by a politician to keep those opposing any corrupt politician
from being able to speak in the public forum against them.
On Jan. 4, 2005 Congressman Walter Jones [R-NC] proposed HR 235, the House
of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act to undo Johnson's vindictive
Christian gag order because [a] it was unconstitutional, and [b] because
it was a rule created by Johnson for his personal use. Organizations like
the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for the Separation
of Church and State and People For the American Way campaigned
against HR 235, arguing its repeal would violate the separation of church
and state. The bill was defeated.
The United States of America was conceived in the pulpits of the
churches in the American colonies. Before and after the birth
of the United States, America's pastors freely spoke out on the political
or moral issues of the day. It was not only a protected right under the
Constitution of the United States; it was their moral duty as the shepherds
of their flocks. Today, more than ever, we need to hear the sane
voices of the nations' pastors in this insane world and, we need
to hear and read constitutionally-protected free speech on the Internet
which, today, is being abrogated by the fabricators of political correctness
because those who oppose the views of the political right dislike what
we have to say.
Please CLICK HERE to FAX every Member of U.S.
Congress. Urge them to relaunch the 2005 House of Worship
Free Speech Restoration Act as the House of Worship and
Internet Free Speech Restoration Act of 2011. Congress needs
to restore "pulpit freedom" to America's Christian community
by rescinding the 1954 IRS gag order that revokes the tax-exempt status
of churches and other non-profits who endorse or oppose candidates for
public office. Congress also needs to protect free speech in general
by barring Internet Providers from rescinding 1st Amendment free speech
rights on the Internet because the "party in power"
disagrees with the political or theological views of the individuals or
organizations whose websites are being threatened.
The Washington Times reported on Sept. 15 that, of all of the Internet
"new-media" platforms and service providers today, only Twitter
does not exhibit an anti-Christian bias. The article quoted Craig Parshall,
senior VP and general counsel of National Religious Broadcasters who said:
"Our concern is not just anti-Christian censorship, although
we [have] examples that seem to indicate that's a particular concern.
The current paradigm that we are seeing with censorship seems to be oriented
towards people of faith and ideas that are religious-based."
One example cited by Parshall concerned Exodus International, a Christian
ministry that works with "...individuals and families impacted
by homosexuality," according to the Exodus website. In March
of this year, Apple removed the app for Exodus International. Apple spokesman
Tom Neumayr told FoxNews.com that the app had "...indeed been
deemed offensive and removed... [and] it violates the developer guidelines
by being offensive to large groups of people." The Washington
Times noted that "...Apple officials acted only after a gay rights
group organized a petition protesting the app that attracted 146,000 signatures."
The NRB report noted that "...Apple's policies were dangerously
overboard and vague...and are, in some instances, viewpoint-censorious
on the subject of religion."
Here's the reality: We can't let Congress look the other way as
the FCC takes over the Internet the way Congress looked the other way
when Lyndon Johnson used the IRS to gag those who opposed his re-election.
Please CLICK HERE to FAX every Member of U.S.
Congress. Urge them to relaunch the 2005 House of Worship
Free Speech Restoration Act as the House of Worship and
Internet Free Speech Restoration Act of 2011. Congress needs
to restore "pulpit freedom" to America's Christian community
by rescinding the 1954 IRS gag order that revokes the tax-exempt status
of churches and other non-profits who endorse or oppose candidates for
public office. Congress also needs to protect free speech in general
by barring Internet Providers from rescinding 1st Amendment free speech
rights on the Internet because the "party in power"
disagrees with the political or theological views of the individuals or
organizations whose websites are being threatened.
Among the things the left is doing to silence the right when "Christian
affronts" do not rise to a legal level which justifies an IP or web-hosting
company from removing their website, PayPal is now being pressured to
cancel the money-transfer rights of "offensive" websites. PayPal's
compliance department has both threatened and rescinded money transfer
rights to conservative and Christian websites when leftwing groups complain.
Christian activist Julio Severo, who posts writings on his one-man "Last
Days Watchman," became the victim of a heterophobic letter campaign
to PayPal to shut down Severo's website because of his views on homosexuality.
Severo received a letter from PayPal advising him that his website was
under investigation, adding that "...because of legal and regulatory
constraints, PayPal was unable to process donation payments for non-registered
charities and non-profit organizations, political party/organizations,
religious institutions; personal/organizational fundraisers, etc..."
The letter continued, "This is not a decision we made lightly, and
we deeply regret an inconvenience or frustration this matter may cause
you. Your remaining account balance will be held for 180 days from the
date your account was [suspended]. After 180 days, you will be notified
by email how to receive your remaining funds."
"Last Days Watchman" is not a non-profit. Nor is it a religious
organization or institution, nor a personal or political fundraising group.
"Last Days" is a Christian individual with a wife and four children
who uses the funds donated to his blog to support his family. PayPal told
WorldNet Daily that the company "...will crack down on anyone it
decides has incited hatred, violence or intolerance because of a person's
sexual orientation"...while they continue to recognize the rights
of free speech.
WorldNetDaily reported that a group of websites is being targeted by groups
like www.AllOut.org that stir up
intolerance of Christians. WND reported that AllOut.org is demanding that
PayPal stop allowing them access to PayPal's services. The group includes:
Here is the reality. The FCC's strong-arm tactics, threatening to reclassify the Internet as a public utility-which they could then legally regulate, has accomplished what the FCC could not legally do without the consent of Congress-intimidate the nation's largest IPs and web-hosting service providers into self-regulating a Fairness Doctrine (net neutrality) more severe, and much more unconstitutional than anything the federal government could do and not have their regulations thrown out by the federal judiciary. Three federal courts, to date, have already told the FCC that, until Congress gives it to them, they have no authority to regulate the Internet and interfere with the free speech rights of those using it.
Please CLICK HERE to FAX every Member of U.S. Congress. Urge them to relaunch the 2005 House of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act as the House of Worship and Internet Free Speech Restoration Act of 2011. Congress needs to restore "pulpit freedom" to America's Christian community by rescinding the 1954 IRS gag order that revokes the tax-exempt status of churches and other non-profits who endorse or oppose candidates for public office. Congress also needs to protect free speech in general by barring Internet Providers from rescinding 1st Amendment free speech rights on the Internet because the "party in power" disagrees with the political or theological views of the individuals or organizations whose websites are being threatened.
According to Russia's top religious leader, Patriarch Kirill I, the United States government (which controls the global World Wide Web) ordered the web designation ".cc" (at one time thought to be the next ".com") discontinued, effectively shutting down 11 million websites-most of them used in Islamic nations around the world. Because they could not use Islamic state-owned IPs in the Muslim world, Christian websites opted for .cc domain which was viewed, in the Muslim world, as an abbreviation for "Christian Church" or "Coptic Christians."
If you recall, a few weeks before Google blacklisted close to 11 million .cc URLs in June, the FCC announced it was investigating the search engine giant. On the same day the FCC suspended its investigation of Google, Google announced it had blacklisted close to 11 million URLs which, they said, had been registered for free through the .cc subdomain across the world. Google claimed the right to pull the plug on freehost servers. Instantly, they ceased to exist. Why did that happen? Because, according to Patriarch Kirill, it was a fundamental shift undertaken by the Obama Administration to support radical Muslim elements around the world instead of the secular Arab leaders the United States once did.
If you will recall, immediately following the disappearance of Muslim world Christian web domains, Reuters announced that Obama was beginning formal talks with the Muslim Brotherhood-a group, in its own words, dedicated to "...eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house."
While America failed to notice the disappearance of 11 million Coptic Christian websites in the emerging nations, the destruction of them in the Muslim world poses a grave danger to the United States since there is now nothing left for Christians in that part of the world to grasp. Their children will now be more easily indoctrinated as converts to Islam.
What lies in store for America's Christians when the Obama FCC is able to intimidate the largest IPs in the world? There is a horrific future awaiting us on the information superhighway according to the White House since, just before his election as President, Obama said "...it's not surprising [that] when [American conservatives] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations."
Please CLICK HERE to FAX every Member of U.S. Congress. Urge them to relaunch the 2005 House of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act as the House of Worship and Internet Free Speech Restoration Act of 2011. Congress needs to restore "pulpit freedom" to America's Christian community by rescinding the 1954 IRS gag order that revokes the tax-exempt status of churches and other non-profits who endorse or oppose candidates for public office. Congress also needs to protect free speech in general by barring Internet Providers from rescinding 1st Amendment free speech rights on the Internet because the "party in power" disagrees with the political or theological views of the individuals or organizations whose websites are being threatened.
Forgotten by the far left is that those Americans who "cling to their guns and religion" are the same caliber of people who created this nation and made it great. If they have a weakness today it is that they don't speak out loud enough and often enough. When free speech dies on the Internet, free speech will die-just like 11 million .cc voices that vanished in the blink of an eye earlier this year. You can't wait. You can't expect someone else to stand up and speak for you. You must stand up for yourself. And, you must stand up NOW! Just below is a button. You are one CLICK away from speaking out to defend your own right to free speech. Fax your Congressman today. Please FAX right now while you still have an Internet to speak through.
I respectfully look forward to your email!
Sincerely,
Jon Christian Ryter
Christian Response Alerts
P. S. Our duty as American citizens is to stay informed so that we can
sound the alarm when the Administration's policies bring harm to our country
and our allies. To stay informed, we need to have free and unrestricted
access to the Information Superhighway. No tolls. No roadblocks. Please
fax Congress today-and tell them where YOU stand on both Internet and
Pulpit free speech.
Please CLICK HERE to FAX every Member of U.S.
Congress. Urge them to relaunch the 2005 House of Worship
Free Speech Restoration Act as the House of Worship and
Internet Free Speech Restoration Act of 2011. Congress needs
to restore "pulpit freedom" to America's Christian community
by rescinding the 1954 IRS gag order that revokes the tax-exempt status
of churches and other non-profits who endorse or oppose candidates for
public office. Congress also needs to protect free speech in general
by barring Internet Providers from rescinding 1st Amendment free speech
rights on the Internet because the "party in power"
disagrees with the political or theological views of the individuals or
organizations whose websites are being threatened.
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