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Sunday, November 20, 2016
OBAMA'S PARTNER IN CRIME: ERDOGAN'S TURKEY VOTES TO MAKE CHILD RAPE LEGAL FOR MEN WHO MARRY THEIR VICTIMS~OBAMA & MERKEL DECIDE INTERNET MUST BE CONTROLLED~OBAMA ADVISES ANTI TRUMP PROTESTORS NOT TO BE SILENT
OBAMA'S MUSLIM PARTNER IN CRIME: ERDOGAN'S TURKEY VOTES TO MAKE CHILD RAPE LEGAL FOR MEN WHO MARRY THEIR VICTIMS
Obama has boasted on more than one occasion that he calls President Recip Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey for his advice on how to raise his daughters, Malia and Sasha. Obama praised Erdogan and said this: “And I also appreciate the advice he gives me, because he has two daughters that are a little older than mine — they’ve turned out very well, so I’m always interested in his perspective on raising girls.”
Obama has said Erdogan was his “favorite” and “most trusted” ally.
Erdogan has spoken out against contraception, describing it as “treason” when speaking at a wedding ceremony. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said women cannot be treated as equal to men and now Erdogan calls women who work, “half-persons.”
Obama goes to him for advice on raising girls. This is who has been running our country for the last eight years.
Donald Trump appointed Steve Bannon to a senior position, and there is a chorus of condemnation from the media.
Barack Obama considering a friend and confidante someone who will legalize statutory rape — no problem. That’s the hypocrisy of the media.
“Fury as Turkey votes to make child rape LEGAL for men who MARRY their victims,” by Nick Gutteridge, Express, Nov 19, 2016:
In a move which has shocked world politicians, the Muslim majority country proposed exonerating pedophiles en masse.
Hardline president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government insists that the new law is designed to pardon men who did not realize they were having sex with underage girls.
But critics have reacted with open fury to the legislation, saying it officially legitimizes both deliberate child rape and forced child marriages.
It comes after a shocking rise in violence against women in Turkey, which has risen by 40 per cent in the past decade.
Opposition MP Ozgur Ozel raged: “Sexual abuse is a crime and there is no consent in it. This is what the AKP fails to understand.
“Seeking the consent of a child is something that universal law does not provide for.”
MPs will have a second vote on the new legislation on Tuesday at which point, if the ballot goes the same way, it will be officially passed into Turkish law.
It is estimated that the change in the law would quash the convictions of some 3,000 men accused of assaulting an under-18.
The government says this will happen if their act was committed without “force or threat” and if the aggressor marries the victim with the consent of their family.
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
The internet is the last frontier of the freedom of speech. It has not been controlled by large media companies or government oversight; nor should it be. Chancellor Merkel seems to believe that she was undone not by her catastrophic migrant policy, but by the fact that its consequences were published online at sites like this (while ignored by institutional media).
This is where totalitarianism starts. Hitler, too, shut down free speech.
This is exactly why the First Amendment was enshrined in our Constitution — because who would decide what’s good and what’s forbidden? Merkel? Obama? We know where Obama stands on this issue. He has long been a foe of our First Amendment rights. But he is history. And I predict Merkel will be, too, in the upcoming elections.
Freedom of speech is the foundation of a free society. Without it, a tyrant can wreak havoc unopposed, while his opponents are silenced.
Putting up with being offended is essential in a pluralistic society in which people differ on basic truths. If a group will not bear being offended without resorting to violence, that group will rule unopposed while everyone else lives in fear, while other groups curtail their activities to appease the violent group. This results in the violent group being able to tyrannize the others.
Speech that is offensive to some must not be curtailed, but protected. If speech that offends a group is outlawed, that group has absolute power, and a free society is destroyed. A group that cannot be criticized cannot be opposed. It can work its will no matter what it is, and no one will be able to say anything to stop it.
MERKEL WITH OBAMA: INTERNET ‘DISRUPTIVE’ FORCE THAT HAS TO BE ‘CONTAINED, MANAGED, AND STEERED’ BY GOVERNMENT
U.S. President Barack Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel smile during their press conference at the German Chancellery in Berlin, Germany November 17, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Speaking at a joint press conference with outgoing American President Barack Obama on his farewell tour, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made chilling remarks about her views on the need for government to control the internet and slammed anti-Islamization protesters who she accused of hijacking the German spirit for liberty.German Chancellor Merkel, who is presently deciding whether to run for a historic fourth term on the strength of her pro-migrant policies which have seen her lauded with praise by President Obama, moved to address populism in her joint address.
Calling the surge of interest in right-wing politics a “wave” that “engulfs us,” Ms. Merkel noted the sentiment “seems to come from the United States,” but in an oblique reference to President-Elect Donald Trump said it was an issue she was dealing with in Europe, too. She said:
“Look at the European parliament. There are a lot of people who are looking for simplistic solutions and are preaching simplistic solutions which are very unfriendly policies. We have them here in Europe, too, we have them in Germany too.”
Apparently blaming this rising populism — politics that are popular with voters — on the internet, the German chancellor implied the internet would have to be subject to restrictive censorship laws as were enacted by many European nations to stem the disruptive effect of the printing press. She said:
“Digitization is a disruptive technological force that brings about deep-seated change and transformation in society. Look at the history of the printing press, when this was invented what kind of consequences it had. Or industrialization, what consequences that had.
“Very often, it led to enormous transformational processes within individual societies and it took a while until societies learned to find the right kinds of policies to contain this, to manage and steer this. We live in a period of profound transformation.”
The chancellor also took time to speak out against the populists within her own country, blaming the exporting of manufacturing jobs abroad for discontent about mass migration. Picking up on the slogan for anti-mass migration and counter-Islamization movement PEGIDA ‘Wir Sind Das Volk’ — ‘We Are The People’ — the chancellor said:
“The most important and noble task of politicians these days is to see that each and every person can find his place. But those who purportedly belong to certain groups say ‘we are the people, and not others’.”
The saying has been inherited by PEGIDA from the counter-Communist rule movements in East Germany in the 1980’s. Merkel, a former member of an East German Communist group, said those words as a protest against overbearing government power and had brought joy to her then but not today. She said:
“At the time when we had [this saying] in the GDR [East Germany] when the people stood in the streets and said ‘we are the people’ it filled me with great joy, but the fact these people have hijacked it does not fill me with joy.”
Ms. Merkel’s comments on web censorship may be welcomed by many in the traditional mainstream media, whose grip on news narratives has been weakened by digital news services like Breitbart.
This week Germany’s Zeit newspaper published a piece calling for controls to prevent “a German Donald Trump”, while Britain’s Independent former newspaper website published a list of “fake” news sites which they claimed may have “swayed votes towards Donald Trump”. One of those listed was Breitbart News.
