tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12597943.post4054458352066174444..comments2024-02-28T04:20:40.719-06:00Comments on THE LAST LIBERAL STANDING: A Tale of Two BloggersBob Kellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18171655256407149176noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12597943.post-59310763357210997822007-02-24T12:05:00.001-06:002007-02-24T12:05:00.001-06:00I have already added my voice to the efforts to se...I have already added my voice to the efforts to secure basic freedoms throughout the world, I have been doing my bit within the so-called U*U World for some time now with little success. . . I will see what I can do to join you in the fight to free Abd'al-Karim Nabil Suleiman. Amnesty International totally ignored my communications inviting them to participate in the first observance of World Day of Conscience on March 29th last year. Who knows? Had Amnesty International and other human rights organizations helped to promote and organize observances of <A HREF="http://worlddayofconscience.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">World Day of Conscience</A> in Egypt and Libya last year Karim Amer might not be in the situation he finds himself in today. One of my hopes was to have Amnesty International and other human rights groups help to persuade Libya, and indeed Egypt and other countries, to release prisoners of conscience on or about World Day of Conscience. <BR/><BR/>The seriousness of the penalties that Karim Amer faces is quite severe but *in principle* I have been subjected to almost identical attempts to suppress legitimate criticism and dissent by totalitarian Unitarians. . .<BR/><BR/>"Charging someone for the peaceful expression of their views is <A HREF="http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Unitarians+had+%22Robin+Edgar%22+arrested.+.+.+&btnG=Google+Search&meta=" REL="nofollow">sadly not new in the U*U World</A>. . . said Robin Edgar, Canada and North America director at <A HREF="http://www.uusc.org/blog/2005/12/spit-on-constitution-and-laugh.html" REL="nofollow">U*U Rights Watch</A>. "By curbing a U*U’s freedom to protest, the "church" may be trying to close an important space for U*Us to speak openly about <A HREF="http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Unitarians+said+%22Creation+Day%22+is+a+cult.+.+.&btnG=Search&meta=" REL="nofollow">events</A> and <A HREF="http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=anti-religious+Unitarians&btnG=Google+Search&meta=" REL="nofollow">issues</A> that worry them."<BR/><BR/>It is all very well for U*Us to proterst against censotrship and suppression of freedonm of speech in the Middle East but U*Us lack the credibility and moral authority to protest too much when they are clearly and unequivocally guilty of engaging in very similar censorship and suppressio of legitimate criticism and dissent themselves. In that I have been permanently banned from every UUA sponsored list serve and internet forum for exposing and denouncing internal U*U injustices, abuses and hypocrisy I think that I can safely say that outrageously hypocritical U*Us have given a whole newe meaning to the famous phrase "banned in Boston". . .Robin Edgarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06208142626285495635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12597943.post-89043497266653935272007-02-24T12:05:00.000-06:002007-02-24T12:05:00.000-06:00I have already added my voice to the efforts to se...I have already added my voice to the efforts to secure basic freedoms throughout the world, I have been doing my bit within the so-called U*U World for some time now with little success. . . I will see what I can do to join you in the fight to free Abd'al-Karim Nabil Suleiman. Amnesty International totally ignored my communications inviting them to participate in the first observance of World Day of Conscience on March 29th last year. Who knows? Had Amnesty International and other human rights organizations helped to promote and organize observances of <A HREF="http://worlddayofconscience.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">World Day of Conscience</A> in Egypt and Libya last year Karim Amer might not be in the situation he finds himself in today. One of my hopes was to have Amnesty International and other human rights groups help to persuade Libya, and indeed Egypt and other countries, to release prisoners of conscience on or about World Day of Conscience. <BR/><BR/>The seriousness of the penalties that Karim Amer faces is quite severe but *in principle* I have been subjected to almost identical attempts to suppress legitimate criticism and dissent by totalitarian Unitarians. . .<BR/><BR/>"Charging someone for the peaceful expression of their views is <A HREF="http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Unitarians+had+%22Robin+Edgar%22+arrested.+.+.+&btnG=Google+Search&meta=" REL="nofollow">sadly not new in the U*U World</A>. . . said Robin Edgar, Canada and North America director at <A HREF="http://www.uusc.org/blog/2005/12/spit-on-constitution-and-laugh.html" REL="nofollow">U*U Rights Watch</A>. "By curbing a U*U’s freedom to protest, the "church" may be trying to close an important space for U*Us to speak openly about <A HREF="http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Unitarians+said+%22Creation+Day%22+is+a+cult.+.+.&btnG=Search&meta=" REL="nofollow">events</A> and <A HREF="http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=anti-religious+Unitarians&btnG=Google+Search&meta=" REL="nofollow">issues</A> that worry them."<BR/><BR/>It is all very well for U*Us to proterst against censotrship and suppression of freedonm of speech in the Middle East but U*Us lack the credibility and moral authority to protest too much when they are clearly and unequivocally guilty of engaging in very similar censorship and suppressio of legitimate criticism and dissent themselves. In that I have been permanently banned from every UUA sponsored list serve and internet forum for exposing and denouncing internal U*U injustices, abuses and hypocrisy I think that I can safely say that outrageously hypocritical U*Us have given a whole newe meaning to the famous phrase "banned in Boston". . .Robin Edgarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06208142626285495635noreply@blogger.com