>>>How can broadcasting a TV station be aiding and abetting the enemy?
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>>Simple. Al-Manar is a propoganda outlet for Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. Why should we allow them the ability to spread their message in the US?
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>>Do a little research - this is no simple music channel we're talking about:
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Manar_TV
>>From http://www.stopterroristmedia.org/: The long war against radical Islam is a war of ideas as much as a war of arms.
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>>I'm all for freedom of speech and take my rights as an American citizen very seriously. But I agree whole-heartedly with this ruling. There are NO valid reasons for allowing our enemies to spread their messages of hate and violence within our borders.
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>This seems contradictory to me. Are you truly for freedom of speech, or only speech you don't find too objectionable? Implicit in the freedom of speech is a degree of respect for people's ability to evaluate what they hear. We aren't sheep who blindly believe whatever we hear. If some Islamic wahoo wants to make an a** of himself spouting messages of hate and violence, let him. I think I am capable of seeing through it.

...which was kinda my point to begin with here. As long as what you say doesn't impose on someone else's freedom or rights, then you should be able to say it. So this guy was broadcasting things that our enemy says...well big deal! good! maybe I wanna hear it! make sure I'm not being lied to! I mean don't we blare broadcasts to cuba so the cubians know the 'truth'? I don't think it should be up to the government to decide what is harmful for me to hear.