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thank you for watching us, monday we'll take up the leadership crisis in america with two highly decorated navy s.e.a.l. officers, and we'll take up the new book as well. good night from new york. have a great weekend.. >> terrorists kill ten journalists. >> what you say may get you killed. though i'm told muslims support free speech. what? it's only muslims who seem to be doing the killing over speech. >> wanting to pick a fight with islam is insane. >> the more you stick your head in the pan, the bigger the problem gets. john: today, even american colleges with free speech. >> she's a professor. >> the safe space is where cultures go to dance. >> these people are intimidated. >> i was silent.
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>> it's generally the left that has the power to silence. john: you should be fired, you're a disgusting person. >> the solution to the speech issues is more speech. john: put me in a bunch of wimps. >> we need to disagree, this is what makes america great. . john: we americans speak pretty freely. we trash politicians, celebrities, each other, but there's one group that people fear speaking about. isis taking responsibility for sunday's shooting here in texas. this shooting happened at a draw mohammed contest. >> bosch fawstin won the contest, the cartoonist responds that's why i draw you. >> we have the right to express ourselves. john: why?
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>> we become a little more unfree. john: america is more unfree, many news outlets refuse to show his cartoon. >> call me naive, i assume every channel would show the cartoon. john: they don't want to be killed. >> i don't want to be killed either, i support free speech. john: "charlie hebdo" wanted to support free speech. >> the gunmen shooting allah akbar as they shot up and down two floors of the building. john: a dutch filmmaker made the movie criticizing islam's treatment of women. for that, he was murdered on the street. the danish cartoonist tried to speak at a free speech event, people rushed the podium screaming allah akbar and punched him until police stopped them. later he attended another event
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where a terrorist shot at him, but missed hitting others. >> at the freedom of speech event, one man was killed, three officers wounded. john: all over the world people are killed for criticizing islam. >> body was hacked to death. john: now "charlie hebdo"'s cartoonists announced we will no longer draw mohammad. many muslims say it's about time. she speaks for cair, the council for islamic relations. of course she says cair condemns violence. >> we clearly are against those people that respond in violence, but the cornerstone of islam for a person to have the right for freedom of speech and the person to express themselves. john: what? it's only muslims who seem to be doing the killing over speech. >> these are a select few small minority group of people from within the vast majority of
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world's muslims. john: there are almost 2 billion muslims in the world, most are not violent. people say in the west, muslims need special protection. >> in america muslims are a sometimes discriminated against minority. you ought to be kinder. ought to respect their culture. >> it is about free speech and saying it's about. john: saying mohammed was angry. >> he killed people. john: in america, bossch has the right to say that. you were on trial for what you wrote? >> yes. john: mark stein wrote the growing populations will soon take over the west. >> a mean thing to say. why should we not be able to say mean things. john: stein fought in court and won. these slaws no place in free countries. >> no one should be stopped from saying what they believe. but some people are.
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>> molly norris is a liberal cartoonist of drearily predictable views, happens to be a south park fan, an episode got canceled because they made a mild mohammed joke which wasn't a mohammed joke, it was how you can't make a mohammed joke. >> jesus, budda, mohammed. john: in the next episode, comedy central bleeped out the name mohammed. [ bleep ]. >> you see? i learned something today. john: they bleeped 35 seconds of their show. >> the south park criticizes everybody. >> right, they're grossly offensive about everybody and it's fine, but they made a mild, a very mildest pathetic dweebiest, pansiest mohammad joke ever and they yanked the
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episode. john: it never aired again. >> molly norris wanted to start a draw mohammad day to protest the censorship and did it in all her liberal innocence. john: then she got death threats. she disappeared. >> her liberal newspaper, the way they put it announcing she was gone, ceased to exist is there is no more molly. there is no more molly. john: she's vanished. >> no one knows whether she's alive or dead. only people who ever write about her are a few of us right wing nut jobs. why does no liberal care about that? what's happened to molly norris is going to happen to you or you or you or you. you are two or three miles down the road. john: cair says it's legal to draw the cartoon but shouldn't out of respect. >> people would not draw cartoons about mohammad and make jokes about catholicism.
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when only one religion kills people it becomes necessary to stand up and argue for the right to do that. john: stein stands up. he joined a panel of cartoonists in europe. >> a host was shot at point-blank range, the artist he's now gone into hiding. there was a norwegian comedienne whose family restaurant was subsequently firebombed. a dutch cartoonist who had to appear in disguise. wearing a burka and since retired from cartooning and gone into hiding, too. so of the six people onstage, there's two of us left. when is cair going to stand up against people who want to kill those who disagree with them? john: they say they stand up against, that they're against killing, you should be respectful and not draw mohammad. >> in this case, respectful is a bogus code word. only way we're going to move to
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a real sense of freedom is if every time somebody puts a bullet in a cartoonist for drawing a cartoon of mohammed is if every newspaper displays that picture. >> many won't, nbc, cnn and the "new york times" won't run the "charlie hebdo" cover. >> wanting to pick a fight with islam is insane, why would you want to make them hate you? . john: after the texas shooting some, blamed the activists who organized the contest. >> why do we need to be mean? >> meanness is the vigor of society. hate is part of what it is to be human. john: polls show a plurality of americans now support laws that would ban hate speech. >> what is hate speech? >> if you apply hate speech, according to the times they're saying, two-thirds of the koran are hate speech.
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john: she grew up under islam and criticizes it. >> the idea which america is founded on are superior. john: she knows both cultures. >> i was raised in a muslim family. i was lucky enough. my father married me off at 22. by then, i was old enough, mature enough and i defied him. john: she ran away to holland where she became a legislator and started criticizing her old religion. >> 9/11, when the events took place, i started to speak out. i saw on television young people celebrate the fact that 3,000 americans were killed and the twin towers were brought down. this is somebody who has been known to express hateful attitude and bigoted remarks about islam and muslims, there are people that could be insighted because of her comments.
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john: ayaan hirsi ali is threatening violence against you? >> called for the destruction of islam. she's clearly somebody that is speaking in a hateful way. >> i did not cause 9/11. it's not ayaan hirsi ali who kidnapped 276 girls in nigeria. john: there are billions of muslims in the world. most are not violent. >> still, they cannot run away from the fact that when it comes to violence committed in the name of religion, islam is number one. john: for saying that, ali is wanted dead or alive. yes, we can says this al qaeda magazine, a bullet a day keeps the infidel away. >> why is it up to you? you could have stayed in holland and lived a quiet life. john: yeah, i could have been quiet in my room, but you know what? how would i feel about myself? >> you can put your head in the sand as deep as you like, but
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if you are confronted with a grim reality like, this people mattering in the name of their god, in the name their holy book. the more you stick your head in the sand, the bigger the problem gets. john: if americans keep censoring ourselves, she says the killers will push and push until we have no freedom left. when we return, the assault on free speech on campus. ♪ the way i see it, you have two choices; the easy way or the hard way. you could choose a card that limits where you earn bonus cash back. or, you could make things easier on yourself. that's right, the quicksilver card from capital one. with quicksilver you earn unlimited 1.5% cash back on everychase, everywhere. so, let's try this again. what's in your wallet?
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. john: you've heard that universities are politically correct, and they are. sometimes in ridiculous ways. university of tennessee students we're told don't use him or her, use gender neutral words like her and zer. what? but what's worse is the new twist. some campus leftists say some viewpoints must never be heard, family-friendly comics like jerry seinfeld say -- >> don't go near colleges, they're so pc. john: an opinion echoed by chris rock who stopped playing colleges because of unwillingness to offend president. the president said if you hear something you don't like. >> you should have an argument with them, but shouldn't silence them by saying you
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can't come because my -- i'm too sensitive. john: all i hear is that colleges are awful places for free speech. >> the reason you feel that this is such a big deal is because the media exaggerates how important it is. john: leftist professor jeremy mayer. >> if you're jerry seinfeld sitting on millions and can't handle a 19-year-old gay rights activist calling you a homophob, put on big boy pants, get over it. it's a criticism. john: most campus criticisms is targeted only at certain people. >> what's offensing is opposing same-sex marriage, what's offensive is being against pro-life. offensive speech on campuses is having a nonliberal view and intolerance from hearing other people. john: the purpose of the college speech laws is the students are young, they're vulnerable, and they need to be
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protected from nasty ideas. >> instead of people saying well, i disagree with what you say because you're wrong about that, they say, i'm sorry, i'm offended, and it could traumatize me. >> oh, the little snowflakes can't handle it. these are not fragile snowflakes, they're intimidators. john: they intimidated brandeis university into uninviting ayaan hirsi ali. >> if you want to send your kid to a place where they're protected from reality, then you send them to a day care center. john: brandeis plans to give ali an honorary degree, when some called her anti-islam comments hate speech, they revoked her degree. >> a woman who stood up to decades' worth of death threats are now too hot to handle. john: they are offered a
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special room called a safe space. >> run and hide, we've got to get to the safe space before the rhetorical bombs start falling. this is insanity. >> a place to decompress after the event, there is a safe space. >> the safe space is where cultures go to die. >> where they set up with the teddy bears and the crayolas. john: she's not kidding, the safe space at brown is room equipped with cookies, coloring books and room frolicking with puppies. >> they are adults when it comes to having sex of any particular variety they want to have, but somehow they're not allowed to be exposed to a speaker who might discomfort them a little? there were people having their heads chopped off all over the middle east. there are christians having their churches burned down, but in the most pampered indulgent society in human history young people feel threatened because
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christina hoff summers has been invited to give a speech. john: a feminist professor skeptical of the claim there is an epidemic of campus sexual assaults. >> speech is disrupted. she's going to debate, she's harming them by expressing a different view. they treat disagreement as an assault against them and they are justified in silencing people even in one case attacking someone. she's a professor, and she steals signs. john: this video becomes after the attack. at uc santa barbara, a feminists studies professor and students snatched this sign from a 16-year-old pro-life demonstrator. when the sign owner complains, the professor smiles and her students tell the girl. >> guard your signs or we'll take it too. >> reporter: the professor admits she stole the sign. >> i may be a thief but you're a terrorist. john: she said she was justified because the graphic abortion signs were disturbing
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and offensive. >> she shouldn't have had to see this, therefore she was justified in harassing the students. >> don't touch me! >> cuts the sign up and in the process attacks a 16-year-old pro-life demonstrator trying to get the sign back. john: what did the college do to the professor? nothing. she still works there. tenure is a powerful thing. >> get off the campus! we don't want you here. john: i experienced the campus attitude after a male student was drummed off campus for having drunken sex with a female student, i'd ask where is the new line between sexual consent and rape. >> they drowned me up. >> rape is not tv hype. come on, louder! >> i couldn't get my question out, they pulled out my microphone cord. >> what happened to you, john, was wrong. let's remember what a college is. 18-21-year-old people are being
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exposed to ideas and some of them get incredibly passionate about and make bad mistakes. i don't think it's often you see the hecklers veto. >> we're liberals we're supposed to like free speech. john: the hecklers hit bill maher, he was invited to berkeley, but some tried to ban him because he's criticized islam. >> i guess they don't teach irony in college anymore. john: at dixie state university, the libertarian students were told they could not post the flyers criticizing both presidents obama and bush. don't colleges need rules to keep people civil? hate speech isn't nice. >> are you always nice? john: dixie state told them provocative speech must be limited to the small free speech zone. >> this little triangle we have here. john: they thought students would be free to write opinions on the poster.
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>> this cop shows up. somebody asked if he -- he perused the table looking through all our books. john: this guy was scared off by the police officer. >> he made us mad. you can't limit free speech. isn't that what it says in the constitution? john: students can say whatever they want in the free speech zone. [ laughter ] >> first of all, the country is a free speech zone, you don't get to decide what other people are going to say or other people are going to hear. that is not how the country operates and certainly shouldn't be how campuses operate. john: no. but many campuses operate that way. not just campuses, companies, too. >> losing the job is one thing but being blacklisted from my entire industry they have 20 years' experience in is a much scarier thing.
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♪ john: in democracies free-speech is really important. tiebl s
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we need to be able to speak about our political leaders.lear we are free to speak about politics. we do it all the time. i was stunned ryland what happened in wisconsin. was life was quiet in the town of middleton, until one morning before dawn people woke up to here somethinge like this. police with battering rams. >> a series of terrifying raids. >> true .-dot -- predawn military raids on home. >> i rushed downstairs making the most. john: owed her teenage son who was scared saying. >> suvs in squad cars. john: they opened the door before police knocked it down. the officers told them they were under criminal investigation, give us your computers, files, and don't talk to anyone. >> we would be subject to jail time and a fine if we
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told anyone about the search on our home. ♪ they say why? >> no. john: school buses drove by. >> you neighbors think you are crooks. >> what happened to your house this morning. what was there alleged crime? >> a political consultant. i do a lot of communications were, but my partner and i were also involved with governor walker's campaign. john: colluding to try to reduce money spent in politics political -- political insiders impose campaign finance rules that limit or political fundraisers can say to each other. >> they have certain laws they have to follow. >> democratic activist likes the rule. _is ournext line is our what the laws are. there is a requirement of secrecy.
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don't tell anyone you are being investigated, not investigated, not even your kids, spouse, parents. >> 530, dark outside. john: no what johnson's home was raided. sixteen and home alone. >> i hear pounding on the door quex's parents had left early that morning. >> mind racing, mile a minute. flashlights outside. john: he wanted to call his parents, but the police would not let him. >> they did not let me call anyone. john: hours later they said he did leave for school, but again, he must not tell anyone about the police. >> i was almost two and a half hours late for school. there is no way you can try to explain to anyone. john: wire you like? >> i said i can't say. john: prosecutors say the john doe rule protects innocent people if charges are dropped but really protects prosecutors from scrutiny. >> a tool that gives prosecutors more power.
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john: erika o'keefe complained about the raid. raid. you were told you may not speak, but you did anyway. >> ii was the only one to openly defy the secrecy order. john: he told the wall street journal,journal, which called the reins political attacks on conservatives who supported scott walker. >> predawn raids before sunup. they knew there would be children.children. no, you cannot call your parents, no, you cannot call an attorney, and you cannot tell the school why you are late. john: this was supposed to protect the innocent. >> what was a modern modern invention is these leftists using it as a political tool john: insiders, two republican district attorney signed off on the raid. >> everyone attacking me is a career public employee. john: government workers don't like that. >> i take cold comfort in having my constitutional rights trampled by both parties.
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john: you were hit with the john doe investigation. >> along with a lot of staffers and officials. john: once charged of breaking loss to get democrats elected and acquitted. john: did it feel wrong that you were told to shut up? >> i don't think so. milwaukee district attorney john chisholm is the lead bad guy. john: a democrat who opposed scott walker. we asked him to appear and he did not respond. it sounds like he wanted to punish you. >> i think that is right. no one stepped up and said this is wrong? >> no judges, nobody. they sat silent. john: for five years until. >> this wisconsin supreme court ordered the john doe investigation be stopped. teesix they finally said prosecutors employed theories ofthere is a law that did not exist. >> they get it. they get it.
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they saw what we went through. >> he did nothing wrong. >> we did nothing wrong. this is about shutting us up, a speech suppression play. john: it basically silence the club for growth for five years. >> the gag order, completely disgusting. it's in order to go to a nice little residential cul-de-sac and take the door down and terrorize the family. i'm only obeying orders. the spirit of liberty manifests itself in people's willingness to get outraged. >> i was silenced. we got fired for voicing an opinion. technology empowers us to achieve more.
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♪ john: conservatives were once called enemies of free speech. some tried to ban rap lyrics , video games,, video games, playboy magazine, but today it is leftists who censor. >> a confessiona confession that got him fired from npr. >> longtime journalist is out. >> i was silenced. john: when she suggested that the obama care math did not add up. >> i was called in the management where was told i was quote disrespecting the office of the president. john: now my side wants certain opinions silenced. >> they don't want to here ideas that they disagree with. john: things like global warming gay marriage, affirmative action, the left often says that the debate is subtle. >> that is it. there is nothing else to talk about. liberals have typically believed in free speech debate and dissent.
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>> now i'm offended. >> get off this campus. we don't want you here. >> we will call you something that makes everyone else not want to have anything to do with you. >> birth control activist, the left tried to get his show canceled. >> opinion should not be illegal. john: good that he was defended by this leftist. however, if you are one of the people with a website devoted to making them go away, you are part of the problem. john: national public radio executives got upset when juan williams said this. >> if i people -- if i see people in muslim garb ofwho identified himself 1st and foremost as muslims, i get worried and nervous.
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john: they quickly fired williams. >> any minority, but butminority, but especially a black person is not allowed to be anything but a liberal. >> the left will devour its own for one ideological breach. >> hi, everybody. john: formal cnn anchor once gave money to democrats and then there criticized him for tenure. >> permanent lifetime employment. john: the left been attacked her, but barely attacked her argument. they smeared her character. >> a bembo, of beauty queen, try to smear her personally. >> i ami am sure you get comments on your website. i get e-mails. toughen up. you know, the public dialogue is not a place for the bashful.
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john: disagreeing saying people on the left all silence anyone. >> i think it is simply mistaken to suggest that that i all some conspiracy of the left. thereleft. there are exaggerated and intolerant views across the political spectrum. >> i'm not saying conservatives don't do it, but i don't know anyone living in fear. >> cheryl atkinson breaking the news tonight. john: she did once did lots of reports on cbs. >> started to investigate the obama administration and suddenly was a secret covert republican and basically this is the way to delegitimize are. >> she started to criticize the obama administration. i am supposed to feel sorry for her? she had a marvelous career and broadcast journalism that went on for decades.
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john: your friends, if you asked them about this, they don't see it. >> they don't see it because it is not covered by the mainstream media. john: the los angeles times announced that it will not allow readers to express doubt. john: aren't you secretly happy? >> this is not what they want to do. john: and this works? >> absolutely. >> it worked on him and him and them. allowwithout people on the left screamed about something that they said. that is next.
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♪ >> all right, let's get to work. john: they flip houses, buy homes, repair them, sell them. they are so. they are so good at it that the tv network picked him to star in a reality tv show. telling the twins. >> we will make you stars on our network. john: then they learned that the brother spoke where people criticized gay marriage and the website
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called out david for saying this in a radio interview. >> we have a homosexualitya homosexuality agenda attacking the nation. john: hdtv called the brothers up. >> a very 1st question was, are you guys gay. john: he did say homosexuality and its agenda attacking the nation. it sounds like you hate gays >> we don't hate them at all. it is not hateful to say the section the only within the confines of marriage than amend the woman as gun to find it. that is not hateful. they take our it's kind of like what you just did and said you hate gays. john: the tv network it announced that it fight -- that it fired a brothers. >> we had been filming for five weeks, taken rooms out of houses. john: they have every right to fire them. the first amendment applies only to government, private businesses can have a speech will they want.
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>> it is a private company. they have a right to fire. >> they do, but they shouldn't. everyone of these pictures is a victory for an evermore shriveling space for public expression. >> we are not victims. they gave us an opportunity and pay us for about six weeks really good money. john: these days lots of people get fired because of something they say. john: chief technology officer for business, but then this website revealed that on twitter he joked about rape and defended sexist jokes saying it is not misogyny to enjoy babies. people then said. >> i shouldi should be fired. i am a piece of crap. the next morning i was fired. losing a job is one thing, but being blacklisted for my entire industry with 20 years of experience is a much scarier thing. john: racist, sexist, homophobic. you should be fired. >> they could not findcannot find anyone to say that i was ever sexist professionally or personally
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john: it was just words they got him fired or certain kinds of words. >> people who disagree politically with the left are attacked. >> the food network has dropped paula deen. john: polity and was fired after admitting to using the n-word 30 years ago. she tried to save her career with this apology. >> please forgive me. i have made mistakes. john: the food network never took her back. when the owners of chick-fil-a said we oppose gay marriage, people protested. that is fine, that is free speech, but then government got involved. >> the mayors of chicago, san francisco, and boston telling the company they are not welcome in their cities. john: san francisco's mail -- mayor. the closest chick-fil-a is 40 miles away and i highly suggest they don't try to come closer. >> free societies do not have state ideologies.
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john: i would hope, but no new chick-fil-a seven opened in chicago, san francisco, arm boston. also attacking this physicist who helped plan the probe on a comment for the 1st time in history. but he said that while wearing this shirt which some people call offensive, sexist. >> the shirt i wore this week -- john: he quickly apologized. >> i made a big mistake and defended many people and then very sorry about this. john: the physicist did not even fight back. he cried at his apology press conference. >> and they destroy him anyway. they don't care whether he is sorry. what they are doing is making an example to others. john: they also made an example of silicon valley who lost his job after they discovered he made. >> 82,008 the nation are thousand dollars in support of proposition eight.
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john: but in 2008 even leftist said. >> i'm not opposed to gay marriage. an activist discovered by extermination. >> the progressive silicon valley committee lashed out accusing him of homophobia and bigotry. >> he resigned in the year later he still cannot find work. >> he invented one of the most popular programming languages we use today and found in the mozilla browser.browser. his opinion was the popular opinion at that time in california, and he still lost his job for it. >> there is a vengeful us about this intolerance. everyone knows brendan ike is not an evil person. he just happens to have a different point of you. why can't you say that? john: may be part of the problem is he did not speak out and defend himself publicly. >> the star of duct honesty did. >> is anti- gay comments have gotten him suspended from the show.
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>> criticized for telling gq magazine that he considers homosexual behavior sinful, robertson did not back off. >> i am not running from anything. >> he stood up to it. john: the tv network. >> welcome, how may i serve you? >> chick-fil-a spoke out, and sales soared. >> the answer is always to push back twice as hard. >> he never wants to get his hands dirty. >> they pushed back one week after they lost their tv show someone told them. >> one of your clients, suntrust bank is actually going to be removing all of your business from you and your franchisees. i got genuinely nervous. they're going to lose all of our business as a result of smear campaign, so we
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decided to take the story public. john: they told the website and quickly people started tweeting. suntrust, this is so wrong. >> within eight hours we received a phone call from suntrust apologizing, giving all of our properties back. i am sure he is afraid. everyone can be safe and i speak about certain things, but we need to disagree. thisdisagree. this is what makes america great. just let your voice be no. john: let your voice be known. i was glad to see the students now fight back when authorities say this. >> you have to have permission to do student development. that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy for my studio. ♪ and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business... that's huge for my bottom line. what's in your wallet?
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♪ john: this country has been a great experiment in individual liberty, the 1st country to say, you have a right to speak. >> we understand that air is necessary for life, and in the same way free-speech is necessary to liberty, and that should be understood by all sides of the debate. >> but it is not. taking responsibility for sunday's shooting here in texas. >> this is about showing us up. >> you can have a society with free-speech and offense of speech were i call you names and you do drawings of me and i say you are a hater, and i say i am. but the alternative to not being able to do that is to do it the way they do in the muslim world whether is no vigorous open debate and
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nothing left to do but kill and bomb and shoot and burn. john: no one thinks america is like the muslim world, but we are in danger of becoming like great britain where this pub singer decided to sing this song. >> everybody was kung fu fighting. >> the person of chinese origin is passing the bar, here's the song coming out, complaints and local police to arrest the arrested guy on a racially aggravated hate crime charge because of the line, they were funky china men in funky chinatown. >> there were funky china men from funky chinatown. >> in an ideal world ii would not choose kung fu fighting as the hill to die on, but, but i have taken to performing kung fu fighting at my stage appearances. >> it was a little bit frightening. >> if funky china men from funky chinatown is a crime than anything, anywhere can be a crime.
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>> chopping them up and chopping them down. >> do you know how much power the stable have if we go too far down that road? that is why kung fu fighting actually is they'll to die on. >> anin ancient chinese art. >> the british singer was eventually released for lack of evidence, but he should not have been arrested in the 1st place. the solution to all of the speech issues is more speech. >> why are the rules? >> the good news is that some people do fight back with more speech. >> you have to have permission through student development offices. >> modesto college where officials told the student he was not allowed to pass a copies of the constitution. the student far back and one. dixie state also backed down
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when the students sued, demanding there right to speak. >> a great advantages of free-speech is, at least you know what people believe. and the people cannot express it now, you will have a more hateful, seething, festering society that people just say what they believe anyway. gay-rights was an extremely minority opinion half a century ago. >> one never knows when the homosexual is about. john: when i was young our government ran psa's like this. >> he may appear normal, and it may be too late when you discover he was mentally ill john: they could not work for the government and were arrested for making love in there own homes, arrested for speaking up my condemned as evil and sick. >> a sickness that was not visible like smallpox. john: mobster of alleged gay people out of town, and they were rejected and condemned by there own parents. >> it is only because you can argue your case that a tiny little minority idea expanded and people thought, well, you know, i don't really mind it. it does not grow a control freak society. >> picking out is what ended segregation and gave women the vote.
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>> the only way you can turn a distant that minority idea into a majority idea is if a society has the space to think. >> the space to think. that is worth fighting for. i am john stossel. thanks for watching. . >> a century old amusement park that could be lost forever. >> dying on the vine down here. >> our time is over. it's serious. >> a divided family on the verge of a painful split. >> no amusement park in the world has been owned by a family as long as this one. >> the family loyalty has disintegrated. it's fodder for disaster. >> and a reprieve from the governor, but will it be enough? >> the day after labor day, amusement park is not open down there. my father is flipping in his grave right now.

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