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The Obama administration has asked YouTube to review "Innocence of Muslims" to determine whether it violates the site's terms of use. (Image source: YouTube)
The Obama administration has asked YouTube to review the anti-Islam film blamed for igniting mob violence this week throughout the Middle East.
The Los Angeles Times first reported Thursday that administration officials had asked the Internet video giant to examine whether “Innocence of Muslims” violated the site’s guidelines. On Friday, National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said the White House had “reached out to YouTube to call the video to their attention and ask them to review whether it violates their terms of use,” the Washington Post reported.
YouTube’s community guidelines prohibit sexually explicit content, “bad stuff” like animal abuse, drug abuse and underage drinking, gratuitous violence and hate speech that “attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity.”
The 14-minute trailer for “Innocence of Muslims” — still available on YouTube on Friday — portrays the prophet Muhammad as a murdering adulterer who approved of child sexual abuse. Depicting Muhammad in any way is considered a grave offense in Islam.
YouTube did not immediately respond to a request for comment from TheBlaze about the administration’s request or whether any type of review was being conducted.
A YouTube spokesman said in a statement Wednesday the video would remain on the site, though access would be restricted in Egypt and Libya, where the first waves of violence took place.
“We work hard to create a community everyone can enjoy and which also enables people to express different opinions,” the statement said. “This can be a challenge because what’s OK in one country can be offensive elsewhere. This video — which is widely available on the Web — is clearly within our guidelines and so will stay on YouTube.”
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littleQueenie
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:58pmThis just posted at Bare Naked Islam dot com:
All of the Youtube accounts from which I regularly post videos about Islam, have been scrubbed clean by the Dhimmis at Youtube. Free speech in America is now officially on life support.
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:13pmIndeed, the conversation went like this: “Take them off or we will shut you down for treason.”
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momrules
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:18pmLittlequeenie……….read my post at the bottom of page two.
It is happening. How long before sites like the Blaze are censored or shut down? Face it, most of us could be accused of *incitement to cause violence* any day of the week for daring to voice our opinions about Islam and Obama.
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littleQueenie
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:48pmYes MomRules-
Something much bigger than outrage over this film is going on.
I just wondering if it’s all planned and by whom, it’s hard to believe all these events are spontaneous and coincidences.
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 4:03pmToo late, I already have a copy of it on my hard drive. New URL to appear shortly to my website, assuming Youtube scrubs all of them off its site.
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Mulder1
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 4:27pmObama is a Dhimmi to Islam who does not support American’s right to criticize Islam or Muhammad.
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Texas.Alchemist
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 4:29pmWhy not post a video / comment on Egyptians burning American Flag. Show and Islamic flag, then rub bacon on it, and set it on fire. Then piss on it and the Koran. That should be an appropriate reply
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GOBHO
Posted on September 16, 2012 at 11:39amWhay Bho bob and his Cranial to anus inverted administration need to stop doing is LYING! Even thairUn Ambassador to the UN had to amit that our Benghazi Legation had beemn under arrack since Spring a ledst 5 times nd we had $ security gurds there?? How about instead admitting that While Bush had Lybia quit their Nuiclear Program and turn over their material to the US…. BHo boob and his appeasement cmpaign is allowingIran to lauggh at us, has Consumer products made in the Us on their shelves, and is developing Missiles for Long range capabilities and soon will have DA BOMB….So movie MY AZZ…They are just STIPUD and nneed REmova from Office ASAP!
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honorary
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 1:19amThe movie did not anti-Islam at all. It is a movie that tell the truth about Moo-ham-mad who was a child molester, liar, looter,
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wingedwolf
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:58pmWell good, thanks for the warning. I am downloading it to my hard drive as we speak, so that it will stay available forever!
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CatB
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:25pmBest then load it onto something portable .. like a flash. Who knows what they have planned .. our hard drives could be wiped out at anytime.
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Pat-Riot
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:59pmNice that Obama and his treasonous crew have their priorities straight. November can’t come soon enough.
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 5:11pmSame here. Here’s the link to my website where I placed it. Download at will everybody.
http://www.patriotsdonotcomply.com/movies/Sam-Bacile-Muhammad-Movie-FULL-HD-Innocence-of-Muslims.mp4
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1TrueOne55
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 8:06pmCNN.com claims that the video has been up on You Tube since July 2012…
I smell a rat especially when Soros employee Hillary Clinton keeps making it the center of her talking points about the violence. And her employees at the Embassy started using it when they were being raled against on 9/11…
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Dont_Vote_Obama-Romney
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 9:13pm“The Obama administration has asked YouTube to review the anti-Islam film blamed for igniting mob violence this week throughout the Middle East. … Neither of the reports indicated the White House had asked YouTube to remove the video from its site.”
Is that a “nudge”? Cass (a jew!) Sunstein … is that you?
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Jwmajic
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 3:05pm“CatB
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:25pm
Best then load it onto something portable .. like a flash. Who knows what they have planned .. our hard drives could be wiped out at anytime.”
You’d be better off putting it on a dvd. Flash drives can be erased as soon as you plug it into the computer remotely the contents of a cdr or dvdr can not be altered after they are burned.
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Diablo4965
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:58pmAnd the censorship begins!
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Max jones
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 4:48pmBegins?
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face.chewer
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:57pmArab media outlets are reporting, with graphic images, that US Ambassador Christopher Stevens was raped and his naked body paraded through the streets of Benghazi. Lebanese Tayyar.org news was among those running the report with photos of the Ambassador’s body.
The news organization, citing AFP news sources, said U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, who was killed by gunmen that stormed the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Tuesday, was raped before being murdered. A news report made by the Libyan Free Press is also reporting that Ambassador Stevens was sodomized before he was killed.
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1TrueOne55
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 8:02pmWhat? Is the person that did that now going to be killed for breaking Sharia Sex Laws. Since Sodomy is a crime punishable by “STONING” in the public square. Will he be buried up to his chest?
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lisalake
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:55pmWere they listening to Rush today when he asked why the admin. wasn’t blaming YouTube or Google??? Bunch of ******* pigs…
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alinskythis
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:21pmTwo notable guests at this year’s Bilderberg conference were the CEOs of both Facebook and Google.
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HotFixIt
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:52pmToday it is a harsh criticism .. tomorrow it is a simple mention they simply dislike…. next week… they just say boo!
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:51pmHaji wins again.
He goes bat $h!t crazy and our government uses it as an excuse to curtail OUR freedom of speech.
Let’s see, because of a bunch of cave dwelling camel jockeys the government now irradiates me, gropes me, scans me, spies on me, collects data on me, makes me pay for said police state, scoops people up without warrant…and now evidently is seeking to silence me.
“America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.” – Claire Wolfe
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:45pmHaji didn’t win. I managed to snag the video from Youtube in MP4 format. It’s there and playing, as a file, on my hard drive right now. Saving it to an encrypted key fob shortly. Nobody censors me, not in my country, no thank you sir!
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:53pmawwww…you reallly think it’s too early?????lol
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WarMunger_Al
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 6:46pmthat is a great quote…
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Tri-ox
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:51pmLOOK! Squirrel!
Once again, obama and his enemy cabal are desperate to deflect attention away from his failures. The uptick in muslim violence and the death of the four Americans are a direct result of obama’s disastrous policies – HE BUILT IT – HE OWNS IT! Empty Chair is now Bloody Chair.
Perhaps it’s time to send Crazy Joe out again without his pants – ANYTHING to change the subject!
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TEXASGRANNY73
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:39pmPolitics first. Bet they keep this going to deflect from Romney/Ryan. Where is that person that posted Obama lied, men died. Do it again. Use Hillary this time. She is responsible for this mess. Obama has braggadocia rights about killing BinLadin and it is in your face to the fanatics. Osama’s Obama.They will try to keep our attention on them. Just watch. I will not.
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hornz
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:50pmFreedom of speech has exclusions such as incitement to crime. Too bad this story lacks those details and how they could be apply.
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DarkJello
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:55pmThe video only incites crime in relation to a temper tantrum of neanderthal proportions.
Your logic is illogical. It is the year 2012 AD, fyi.
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:03pmYour position approving censorship and being against the 1st Amendment is noted, Hornz. But we know, of course, you have no choice. If Obama legalized murdering people with blue eyes, you’d be on here jumping up to see if you could be the first post in approval of his policy. Sycophant.
May history forget you were ever our countryman.
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CWPrequired
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:12pmWho gets to define “incitement to crime” ? So that means when I see something posted on the internet that offends me. Oh nevermind, you wouldn’t comprehend.
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2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:12pmHornz, ever heard of a slippery slope?
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SacredHonor1776
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:39pmHornz your post is an incitement to crime… You could drive someone to murderous rage for trying to prevent them from having free speech…
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hornz
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 4:20pmDoes anyone ever refute a claim around here? It’s not hard to look things up. I’ll give you a hint..Supreme Court has previously ruled on this.
Anyway, the guy that created this video is alleged to be an Egyptian. He claimed to the WSJ, under a false name, that he was an Israeli American who made the film with Jewish financing.
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 4:23pm@Hornz
There is no constitutionality to censorship, sorry. SCOTUS got it wrong. The 1st Amendment has no word “except” in it.
Just slavering for censorship aren’t you?
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AvengerK
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 4:48pmI’ll call your bluff HORNZ…
Find me the part of the chintzy film that openly incites any kind of criminal activity? Heck..find me the portion of the mess of a film that subliminally incites any kind of criminal activity.
What you’re invoking is the direct inciting of illegal activity. This film does not do that.
Being offensive, inflamatory or even hostile is not reason to forbid the filmmakers from making the film or airing it in venues that allow it to be aired.
Do you recall museums displaying crucifixes in jars of urine? Sure…christian groups were appalled at it and asked for it not to be displayed because of it’s openly offensive nature. The museum and the artist were not only protected by the constitution..but christians didn’t violently attack the museum when it went ahead with the display. Now…I dare you…put a Koran or the Haddith in a jar of urine call it art and see what happens.
Heck..draw a cartoon of Mohammed…go ahead..I dare you. Ask the “South Park” writers what happened to their depiction of Mohammed on their show when Islam deemed it offensive and insulting. But what’s happened when they depicted Jesus?
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AvengerK
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 4:55pmHORNZ…Mohammed married a six year old girl and bedded her when she was nine.
A muslim cleric recently said that Islam allows muslim men to sleep with children as long the child “can bear the man’s weight”.
By all means correct me if I’m wrong on those two ponits HORNZ.
So who’s inciting criminal acts? A religion who’s most revered figure is a pedophile and that sanctions pedophelia for it’s male practitioners, or a crappy film that’s laughably biased against Muslims?
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MFHorn3
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 7:39pmHornz, I am confident that if the video in question were removed, the protesters throughout the Middle East would return to their peaceful and productive lives.
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doomytram
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:47pmMighty Mouse (Obozo) has stepped up to save the day! Nevermind the “Art” with a crucifix in a jar of urine, or the millions of offensive videos mock everything that is Christianity.
How nice it will be for Obozo to shut off the internet..
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scuba13
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:05pmShouldn’t that be Mini-mouse?
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doomytram
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:48pmRight..Right…Mini-Mouse and Hillary to save us err censor us from ourselves…. it’s the Sept. and October surprise….Crash the dollar and censor us.
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Mandors
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:44pmSorry Barry, the President asking someone else to censor something is still censorship by the President. It’s really amazing how mentally impaired this administration is. The worse part is that they actually, truly believe they’re clever.
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DarkJello
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:51pmIf Owebama wins the election, then America deserves to fail!!
It won’t be fair to the majority of citizens, but it will be justice from nature’s god.
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:55pm“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when reflect that God is just” — Thomas Jefferson
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boyd9
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 4:11pmIf Obama wins, then there is not enough intelligent life in this country to justify saving it. Everyone who wants to work for a living and has some money they don’t want confiscated by Obama and his new obamacare authorized army of IRS agents needs to go to Australia and work your way to citizenship, The Aussies aren’t green kooky crazy yet, and that country still has a chance to remain a Bastian for free enterprise. If Obama wins the US has no chance to be anything except another Greece.
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DarkJello
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:43pmThe incompetence and willful blindness of our intelligent but foolish leaders is staggering!!
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NewLife56
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:43pmI’m watching Hillary speaking again. She again bashes an Internet Video we had nothing to do with.
She can now wipe the brown off around here nose.
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CatB
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:56pmThis from yesterday . … I guess now the have decided to just double down on stupid .. trying to make people believe it was a video.
“Senior officials are increasingly convinced, however, that the ferocious nature of the Benghazi attack, in which rocket-propelled grenades were used, indicated it was not the result of spontaneous anger due to the video, called Innocence of Muslims. Patrick Kennedy, Under-Secretary at the State Department, said he was convinced the assault was planned due to its extensive nature and the proliferation of weapons.
There is growing belief that the attack was in revenge for the killing in a drone strike in Pakistan of Mohammed Hassan Qaed, an al-Qa’ida operative who was, as his nom-de-guerre Abu Yahya al-Libi suggests, from Libya, and timed for the anniversary of the 11 September attacks.”
Ignore the FACT that they were warned .. they had no ammo in the guns at the Embassy .. and this and more … we are supposed to believe Obama and HILLARY LIES! H no!
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Bobj_1960
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:43pmWhat in the bloody-blue-blazes is the WH doing? Monitoring the internet to make sure we are all good little sheeple? THIS IS BLATANT CENSORSHIP!
Protect or Constitutional Rights and vote these yahoos out of office!
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NewLife56
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:42pmSo if vids about gays are offensive to us, they will ask for a review? If they show Vids offending Christians, they will ask for review? Oh, I forgot, that doesn’t matter, only offending Muslim’s matter
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2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:41pmB.O.’s solution is to throw the First Amendment down the toilet in order to appease his Muslim brothers? Is there any question where B.O.’s loyalty sits?
How any American with a soul could even consider voting for this POS is beyond comprehension.
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DarkJello
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:44pmMy sentiments exactly.
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2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:04pmDid I mention B.O. stinks?
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Palrak
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 12:13pmThe ones who will vote for Obama are ones who don’t pay attention to the REAL news (because they couldn’t care less,) can’t or won’t think for themselves, are illegal, dead, and/or living permanently off the government teat. I’m sure this is an incomplete list.
To those who say that if Obama is elected, America deserves it: NO WE DON’T.
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progressiveslayer
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:40pmThe Arab spring,Barry you built that and the blood is on your hands,now being the worthless Marxist POS you are blame someone else for all the murders.
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kaydeebeau
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:40pmQuit with the “anti-islam; anti-mohammed” headlines to describe this video. It is not anti anything. Stop with the biased , language hi-jacking propoganda used by the left.
Stop with the inflammatory, commentary in the headlines and in word choices in articles.
ARGH!!!!!
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progressiveslayer
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:38pmYes Barry just have the FCC censor everything the regime finds offensive, if private companies won’t do it just take them over,hell you took over the banks and GM why stop there you Marxist mulatto fraud POS.
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randy
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:37pmIt wasn’t the film that incited the violence Obama you MORON!
You knew about the possible violence at least 4 days in advance.
And you chose to do noting.
The blood of those 4 murdered is on your hands!
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Gonzo
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:36pmObama, review your Libya and Egypt strategy and then we’ll talk.
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CatB
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:57pmHe got what he wanted … Muslim Brotherhood … don’t believe for a minute he is concered about anything but his re-election.
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Gonzo
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:09pmI don’t Cat, I don’t.
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:36pm“portrays the prophet Muhammad as a murdering adulterer who approved of child sexual abuse.”
And this is inaccurate in what way precisely? Telling the truth about somebody is a sin in Islam?
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Gonzo
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:44pmDang it Ghost, The U.S. embassy in Kuwait was just breached over that comment. It seems the religion of peace is scouring the internet for excuses to attack us. Shame on you. The Obama administration may publish your name an address now.
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:51pmThey can publish it, I’m not worried. The fundamentalists only attack in absentia, they rarely show their faces to try and attack an armed man. And I’m an armed man. Bring it on. :)
It’s absolutely breathtaking to see this crap happening. It’s like I’m not living on the same planet I grew up on, any longer.
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Gonzo
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:00pmIt gets worse every day Ghost…and roughlly half the country cheers it on.
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:05pmHalf the country? Not sure I agree with that. But I’d buy about 5 Billion earthlings are.
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Gonzo
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:11pmLook at the polls Roth, they must like what they see and want more of it.
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:15pmWell if you’re right Gonzo, may they get what they want times 100. May they be raped by these animals before they are thrown to the crowd and torn apart.
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progressiveslayer
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:17pmGentlemen,America is infested with idiotic people more concerned about American idol than the direction our country is headed.With the class A A hole currently dismantling capitalism and our constitution we’re headed for a dictatorship.If you were to ask the intellectual titans what exactly a dictatorship entails I’d be shocked if 50% of them knew what it meant.
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Gonzo
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:24pmYou’re right Slayer (as usual), but two idiots obsessed with American Idol wipe out our two votes and we’re all stuck with the consequences.
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AvengerK
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 4:50pmummm….Mohammed married a six year old and bedded her when she was nine.
Recently a muslim cleric said that Islam allows muslim men to sleep with children as long as “the child can bear the man’s weight”.
What is Islam insulted about? It’s own “truths”?
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Elena2010
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 6:54pmThat is the nature of islam. Be offended by the truth when it makes you look bad.
Islam is not a religion. It is a political ideology more corrosive to the human soul than Marxism or Nazism. It merely has religious flavorings…how it got a toe hold here in the West!
It must be exterminated as an ideology. It must be replaced w/something that does not destroy men’s souls.
Only the God of the Bible can effectively break the stranglehold islam has on its adherents and victims.
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banjarmon
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:36pmGovernment has NO RIGHT to censer a Privet company. If it were me, I would tell they where to go!!!
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CatB
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:33pmMore Strawman from Obummer regime .. it was on the site for 6 months and we get ATTACKED on 9/11 .. btw … now Bummer, Hillary, and Biteme are meeting the caskets of the dead from Libya .. he couldn’t be bothered when the ambassador was missing (he went to bed) but now they are doing a PHOTO OP … disgusting POS’s all THREE!
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Dkoonz
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:43pmThis is what happens when you show weakness to these animals. Obama and his liberal side kicks new about this attack days before it happend. This attack wasn’t about some stupid movie but the hatered that the animals in the middel east have for us. Its time for all americans to take a stand againist these animals.
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Seth Patriot
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:33pmHey President Pinhead, it’s not the movie. Look in the mirror.
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The-Monk
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:05pmAnd if You Tube say it does? What then? Blame You Tube?
DOJ vs You Tube suit?
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