Posts Tagged ‘rights’

Despite all the warnings about looming socialism and even communism coming from Fox News these days, the concept of private property rights seemed wholly absent when Fox News’ Megyn Kelly reported on a controversy in Gaffney, South Carolina, that resulted from a Bank of America branch’s temporary removal of American flags placed on its property by Brenda Earls to memorialize the death in Afghanistan of US Marine Lance Corporal Christopher Fowlkes, as I show in this video. The 3 short FAIR USE clips I use from Megyn Kelly’s interview of Brenda Earls come from the Fox News program “America’s Newsroom” broadcast September 22, 2009, that you can find, in full, online at www.foxnews.com My May 2008 video in which I appear on camera to fight for the freedom to plant flags on PUBLIC property to honor soldiers and civilians killed in Iraq to which I refer in this video is available under the title “ACLU Memorial Day Free Speech Win!” on YouTube at www.youtube.com And, finally, as always, you can find DOZENS and DOZENS more examples of Fox News bias on my Fox News bias playlist on YouTube at www.youtube.com

This video gives a brief overview of student rights covering free speech, rights of journalists, search and seizure, police interraction and freedom of religion and belief. -A community service of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida.

Canada’s human rights record has ‘eroded’ under Harper government: watchdog
OTTAWA – A leading international human rights watchdog has told the Harper government it should include abortion in its G8 maternal health initiative.

Amnesty says countries put politics ahead of human rights
Amnesty International has accused governments in the region, including Australia, of putting political self-interest ahead of human rights.

Britain’s New Government Revisits Human Rights Act
Britain is wrestling with the dilemma of how to deal with foreigners who are suspected of being terrorists but who haven’t been charged and can’t be deported because they’d face torture or death in their homelands. The debate has become a political football within the British government’s ruling coalition.

Supreme Court favors free speech, animals rights advocates upset
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NBC) — The United States Supreme Court rules in favor of the constitutional right to free speech, to the dismay of some animal rights advocates.

‘Zombies’ have free speech rights too, US court rules
They’re said to utter little more than an occasional groan, but zombies — the blood-drenched monsters of Hollywood “B” movies — still have a right to free speech, a US court ruled this week.

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UPDATE: Court rules student’s rights violated; Layshock case called free-speech victory
An appellate court decision filed Thursday backed a federal judge’s conclusion that Hermitage School District violated former student Justin Layshock’s free-speech rights when it punished him for creating an unflattering MySpace profile of his principal.