STEALTH CENSORSHIP: THE NEW BROWNSHIRTS

Here is your typical recruit into Obama's  "well funded" civilian army.  I received this IM last night on AOL:

GuyInGothamX: I am monitoring your site---if you or any of your hate- filled followers even make a passing joke about violence toward Barack Obama or his family, I am going straight to the FBI. I don't put anything past you or your racist followers----everything you do is an incitement to violence... additionally, i have reported your site to the Wiesenthal Center for Tolerance, the ADL, the ADC and the NAACP... you may think race-baiting and religious bigotry are entertaining, but i'm not sure those organizations will

It's not illegal, or hate speech.  The O-bot did not threaten violence or smear my race or religion, just threatened to tell the FBI. It is very carefully  constructed.Google has scrubbed my site from their search engines. Months ago they removed birth certificate images and blocked/suspended anti- Obama blogs here and here and here.

Further the indispensible Sultan is reporting this:

The Obama Crackdown on the Jewish Media Begins   Sultan Knish

Call it Scenes from the Obama Revolution Part 2. It's happening quietly and under the radar but there is a pattern to it is a bit similar for it to be completely random. Editors and staff working for local Jewish papers that have run articles critical of Obama have been receiving hostile phone calls.

While critical phone calls are not unusual when you're working on a newspaper, these phone calls are not from random readers, they are coming from lawyers and sometimes doctors who wield influence in the community and may often be advertisers. Typical talking points for these phone calls typically warn against running any further critical articles of Obama "now that he is President", emphasize that most Jews voted for Obama and emphasize that "we must unite behind him" or there may be "consequences to our community."

The phone calls are conducted with a brashness and rudeness that smack of Rahm Emanuel. A not atypical closing section from a phone call received by the editor of a Jewish newspaper not too far away from Obama's home base ran like this.

Caller: Who the hell does he think is writing things like this about Obama?

Editor: He is a respected journalist who is a Holocaust survivor and has been appearing with us for many years.

Caller: As far as I'm concerned he's garbage! You can't run any articles by him again, not until he moderates his position.

Editor: This is a free country, you can have your opinion and he can have his opinion.

Caller: No he can't!

The objectionable article was a fairly mild piece that pointed out Obama's lack of experience. The caller was not some random reader, but a fairly influential local figure. One or two such incidents could be put down to random moonbattery trickling up, but I'm hearing of more and more similar phone calls. And I'm seeing more and more Jewish papers that had formerly criticized Obama "moderating" their position.

To what extent is this an orchestrated campaign to silence opposition in Jewish newspapers, those that at any point did oppose Obama, there is no way to know. But the outcome can nevertheless be seen on many editorial pages, and with Carter talking about Obama's plan to tackle the middle east early on, it can be seen as clearing the decks and intimidating the Jewish press at large into remaining silent.

OT related: Media Self Censorship

UPDATE: Will The Fairness Doctrine Silence The Conservative Voice?

UPDATE: Let me explain about the google scrub. If you put into the search box Atlas Shrugs my site is there but my work, my articles, posts etc has been scrubbed from search results. According to an IT reader expert, the blacklist came out of Seattle.

Most folks find Atlas  from a google search of keywords or word searches ie "obama birth certificate", "Gaza contributions" "Obama Odinga" - stories I broke or  that first appeared at Atlas.  Those first time readers become regular readers.

Google apparently does not like that.

Here's the path:

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Comments

[Zero]

I knew it! I said it weeks ago. Anybody that disagrees in any way with Barry will be called a racist. Unbelievable. These goons actually think that this is ok.

FountainheadZero
Join the irate minority.

[spielyi]

The scary part is they are getting away with it and with every little victory they score they become more bold and it is going to get worse. If no one stands up against them then we are doomed as a free country. I refuse to give in to these goons and will express my disgust with their messiah and let them try to silence me.
"God, guts, and guns made America and will save America." ~ Unknown

[K T Cat]

What do you get when you combine the press, a political party and the government?

Il Duce!

[pythagoras]

Actually the single scariest thing of all about this is the Democrats and other American leftist groups are being brazenly manipulated at every turn by radical Islam...and they are such morons (or crooks) they cannot or will not see it.

Once Obama removes the US Constitution (under the guise of "change"), it will be a cinch for Islam to institute the Kuran and sharia'a'at in its place here in America. All the left needs to do is shut us all down and tie us up politically (and they are doing that as fast as they know how) and then Islam will have the United States of Islamerica in place instead of the United States of America we once all knew and loved.

Within a decade the Muslims will be sawing off human heads in American streets if we do not find a way to stop these people and quickly!

[Davod]

It may be against the laws but this has to be recorded and shared with the world.

[Davod]

I know no one here will be surprised that his position on Israel/Palestinian peace is the Saudi proposal.

[armaros]

This experience looks strikingly familiar to these events:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2006/03/venezuelas_bloggers_are_under.html

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/venezuela/venez0503-01.htm

At least in Venezuela, the press has balls despite the threats.

[culturist]

This is scary, because a person with an assumed identity could provoke one of these inquisitions and get you blacklisted.

That said, I am terrified of the thought of someone assassinating or shooting at BO. It would be as disruptive to our nation as a major terrorist attack. Riots and havoc would commence. Caution against the hyperbolic is warranted.

But yes, we do not want zealots pc enforcers on our sites looking for hate speech.

www.culturism.us

[BerlinBerlin]

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

ROSA LUXEMBURG

[TINBH]

weaselinbigtown

"monitoring" of US citizens is called spying and is illegal

This is what you need to do immediately:

1) look in the mirror, once you recognize what you are,

i.e. a self-confessed criminal, who projects on to any other human being your own paranoid violence, hatred, and supremacist filled thoughts

2) go straight to the fbi and turn yourself in for spying on US citizens and for your participation in denying US citizens their constitutional rights - to free speech

or you could just move to iran, syria, north korea, cuba, venezuela, arabian desert, etc. where you will be welcome and no-doubt infinitely happier than you ever possibly can in the United States of America

[George Mc.]

"Google has scrubbed my site from their search engines."

Pamela, I just googled "Atlas Shrugs" the your website was the first one that came up on the list. They also have links to all the COLB pictures. If they had you scrubbed before, they must have taken off any blocks.

[clyde]

Rosa Luxemberg got the full force of opposition tolerance in the 1920s when a mob of people who disagreed with her views beat hell out of her and then threw her off a bridge, killing her.
Somehow there seems to be an undercurrent of liberals who think along this line...

[RISE_UP]

Dear Mr/Mrs/ms/IT:GuyInGothamX
Do you mean to say reporting people for free speech actually WORKS? In that case,I am reporting you to a shit eating dog. REPORT THAT

[RobCon]

I recently got banned from the latte-lefty website called Zeek which is assocaited with Jewcy.com.
It was one left-wing Jewish writer after another including an editor of Screw magazine who was really vile to sarah Palin as you can imagine. I made a point of commenting on each peice and I guess I was pointing out their sophistry to well because I was kicked out. I took it as a huge compliment. The left cannot tolerate debate.

[Zero]

"It may be against the laws but this has to be recorded and shared with the world."
I don't disagree, but read 1984. Once they've rewritten history and brainwashed marginalized or otherwise dealt with everyone who might remember the truth, did it ever happen? We have to fight now with our voices, will, and perspicacity, while we still can.

[seeteufel]

K T Kat, you are way off base, there are too many people in the States who have lived or fought in Muslim countries and know what these hell holes are like. Can you imagine for one moment what the half a million veterans who have fought the Muslims in the various gulf wars, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia will do if sharia is introduced. They know their enemy, they are trained and most are armed. Suspend the constitution, impose martial law and sharia and you will wake up to the biggest bloodbath in history. The army will be split into two camps, but the ones who hold the keys to the armouries will back the vets. Do that and air force one will head to Indonesia with an ex-president looking for asylum.

[Cathie]

FINALLY!!!!! IN THE NEWS!!

Headline: FORMER OBAMA OPPONENT NOW SUING TO PROVE PRESIDENT ELECT CITIZENSHIP!!!

http://www.nbcaugusta.com/news/elections/obama/34587804.html

Pamela, sent them some more information!!!!

[Pamela Geller]

let me be clearer

yes, if you are looking for atlas, that comes up.

I am referring to searches - word searches, keyword searches on google ..... for example, Obama birth certificate for example. I broke the forgery, I was always the top search -- I don't appear.
It's a search results scrub. I am (I mean was) the top result on Gaza contributions, Obama Odinga ... stories I broke. No more

[kobi]

in the time honored tradition of atlas shrugs, i have one statement about these 'censors'. ahem,

full of shit-niks.

[kobi]

or, for the more cautious among you:

full of shiz-niks.

;0

[kobi]

pamela,

as bothersome as it is there are two key things to remember:

1. let this stuff make you stronger
2. keep your sense of humor

you, pamela geller are pamela gella da truth tella. you are on the side of tzedek, the side of righteousness. dont' let these pathetique people deter you (of course they won't).
keep your great sarcasm and your tefilot l'shamayim, beseder?

am yisrael chai baby!!!

[kobi]

ps: to the mr/ms gotham who sent atlas the email:

as a regular reader of this site for a year i have never seen any pieces by atlas or any comments that threatened or implied any physical threat to ozero. none, nun, zip, zilcho.

do supporters of this site like ozero? nope.
do we want him in office? nope.

will we excercise our constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech to criticize, muckrake etc?
you betcha!

"all we are say-ing...is give truth a chance"

your email sounds like a paranoid child who doesn't want their dolly taken away.

people on this site understand that for ozero to be shot or harmed, G-d forbid!, would be disastrous to this country.

you know, if he weren't such a slimeball, it'd be easier to love him tho!!! lol.

there are other websites you can better spend your time if you wish to monitor for those kinds of things.

this place is for information, insight and sarcasm in the face of a guy who we feel is not good for america or the world.

we wish him no harm.
we also wish he'll be disqualified by the supreme court 'cause he's not a natural born citizen.

i do think, however, that he IS a natural born slimeball.

[scrapiron]

In every dark damp place you find a slug. The democrats are all in the dark so they are all creepy crawly slimey creatures. Hussein O is the leader of the slime. May all kinds of misfortunes fall on him. Just sit back and wait, his slimey followers will turn on him within weeks when they see he's a failure who will never accomplish anything more than vote here. So many lies have came out of his mouth that no foreign leader with an IQ above 50 will ever trust him. Trust and verify was once the word, now it's verify and still mistrust.

[Cate]

Pamela - That guy must not have much to do if he's skimming websites looking to make threats. He probably does that when he gets home from working his shift at Blockbuster. You can contact AOL and report that guy for threatening you. You have his IP address. Turn about is fair play!

[cjean]

Re: Google searches, I have noticed that Atlas has not been appearing on any number of searches that had always produced Atlas headlines in the past. Now I have my answer.

[cjean]

I typed in this search: "birth certificate" obama illegal donation atlas

I still did not get Atlas Shrugs link.

Wow. That is incredible. Who is directing Google?

[JOQ001]

Hi All - Yes indeed The Long Arm of Obama is far reaching. During the Campaign, I took it upon myself to pass truth to the bloggers of BarackObama.com - mainly to give those that were undecided, real perspectives, non-MSM, my efforts still did not yield a true success for McCain, however, I am confident that I turned several undecideds into McCain'ers or at least Non-Obama. I will say this - I had received threats, FBI, Secret Service and legal investigations against me - of course (at least at this time) is non-existent, until Obama takes all freedoms away from us....So Pamela - I know you know this, but don't let these GOONS THREATEN YOU - IT IS THE SAME AS THE COMMUNISTS DID IN THE EARLY 20th Century to scare the masses - GOD BLESS YOU FOR YOUR WORK!

[George Mc.]

Pamela, thanks for the explanation on the word searches.

First, the good news - you haven't been totally scrubbed.

Now, the bad news - you have been bumped WAY, WAY, WAY back in the queue. I had to scroll through 42 pages of google search results for "Obama birth certificate" before I finally came to a hit for an AtlasShrugs story.

Absolutely amazing!

[Timur]

To have hate crimes like the rape, torture and murder of that young Marine and his wife happen and then have a reader threaten to report Pamela for exercising her First Amendment Rights is the height of stupidity.
I honestly think that people like the one who threaten to report Pamela will always be slaves to their own ignorance, stupidity, fears and prejudices.

[LeftCoastConservative]

I have also noticed how so many who were in favor of voting for McCain/Palin are now saying "We need to get behind our President".

Who the hell do they think they are? And who the hell do they think we are? A bunch of school children at the lunch line?

First of all, respect for the OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT does not automatically extend to the person holding that office! Clinton didn't even show respect for the office of the President while he was sitting in the chair of the Oval Office.

Secondly, I don't recall hearing anyone telling the public that "we need to be united to make President Bush successful". Especially not the Democrats!

Third, wanting The United States to be a successful nation is a given. Nobody in their right mind wants to see our nation collapse in any form, economically, politically, or morally.

So I honestly believe what they are really trying to tell conservatives is that you need to agree with us, you need to tow the line as we see fit and don't cause any problems, don't rock the boat.

The liberals rise to power was paved with slogans like "Question Authority", but now they are screaming "Don't Question OUR Authority".

Obama speaking to those who did not support or vote for him said "I'll be your president, too" sounded to me to be more like a declaration from a dictator than a humble acceptance of a newly elected leader.

I don't expect the ushering in of sharia law, even though many of the foreign countries that supported Obama probably will, but I definitely think that we have taken a wrong turn in that direction. I for one will not be supporting any continued travel in that direction. I will be keeping my eye on the up coming road signs and mile markers.

I sincerely appreciate Pamela's work, as well as those who are working with her at Atlas Shrugs, to keep us informed as to what is going on and helping us to see the road signs clearly.

[Pamela Geller]

Hey Leftcoast, Atlas is the only one at Atlas. No assistants, no editors, no interns, no proofers etc
Just me ......

and my readers. They keep me honest :)

[WRpeach]

Hmmm...GuyInGothamX must have turned in NBCaugusta; appears the article has been wiped clean. Can't even look it up on their search box. Google search brings it up but when you click on the article,,,no go. So much for freedom of speech - no surprise.

[cjean]

WRpeach...so freaky. I have that story saved in my cache, copied & pasted the link into another tab and shazaam...poof!!!! GONE!

[cjean]

Here's the screenshot over at Free Republic:

NBC Augusta Scrubs Story about Alan Keyes Birth Certificate Lawsuit

[exDemocrat]

Attention all Obamabots:

I hereby formally eschew all references to "fear mongering, racism, hate speech" et al.

I am in the middle of reading Atlas Shrugs (greatest book evah), and I f*rt in your general direction.

Looters.

Let's roll.

[siddah]

Greetings from the land of Oblahblah and Rahmbo...Atlas & Sultan-2 of the VERY Very best in the blogsphere. They tell the truth!
Thanks to both.

[Tom Cuddihy]

Pam this revelation about censorship from Google has me considering dumping my new Chrome beta and blogger usage.

Censorship from the master organizer of the internet --it's the only organization that could pull it off.

Seeing the damage to free speech, how do we route around it. Is there any real alternative to Google?

[kobi]

hey 'goyingothamx'

you said you're 'monitoring' atlasshrugs.
great! there's hope for you. keep reading and maybe some of her wisdom and insight will sink in.

[TINBH]

Co-founder Sergej Brin - a product of the soviet union and "progressive google" is censoring speech and Constitutionally guaranteed rights liberties ...?

Go figure.

[Doda McCheesle]

Things are getting curiouser and curiouser... the FreeRepulic web site is not coming up at all now (Tuesday 11/18 8:55 AM DST)...

And a note to MrGuyinGothamX: Fuck Off.

Sorry Atlas, I've never lowered myself to the typical leftard level of using the "F" word in an online-post, but I feel that it is the most appropriate response and summation of the feelings of all of the above. What Mr. Guy fails to realize is that not all of us walked into the "showers"... my people participated in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and that fire is still in us...

[moderationist]

By not mounting a powerful offense, the conservatives and republicans have let the thuggery of the left escalate out of control. Every incident of intimidation must be publicized and fought in court, if need be. This is terrifying.

[RISE_UP]

Dear GuyInGothamX Mr/Mrs/Ms/IT:

In keeping with my free speech here is your joke of the day:

Bo and Mo got their children a shit eating dog and now the po lil thangs are orphans

[KCendeR]

WA readily admits to using blackhat seo techniques to control the seo. Google master was all tears with O at the Grant Park rally. This explains the scrubbing. u think?

[Thomas Carney]

There are two steps to creating a police state:

1. Silence voices of opposition: In the mainstream media, this has been virtually done. The (formerly) Big Three and the Clinton/Communist/Crescent News Network are so biased it's shameful. The BBC World Service, once respected, is now a Leftist joke. The only things remaining to get the truth out is a. The Internet and G-d help us if the US guv'mint regulates the hell out of it. b. Printed media but no one outside of the MSM has the resources like the MSM does and c. Pirate radio. There are pirate broadcasters out there on shortwave, AM and FM in many countries. The FCC has been cracking down on pirate broadcasters in the USA, but they're still there. Fortunately many of the shortwave broadcasters in the USA are not beholden to Clear (?) Channel, Westwood One, and others.

Let me make it clear... in an Obama Administration it might be a good idea to get shortwave radios.

and the other: 2. Remove means of resistance. I have ZERO doubt that Obama is going after guns. When Obama was a state senator in Illinois, he voted to put a 500% tax on guns and ammo in Illinois. He also voted twice on virtual outright bans on guns.

FEMA, the brainchild of Zbiginew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor under that other Closet Communist, Jimmy Carter is not here to help people in disasters. It's here to "help the government" run the country under martial law.

[Thomas Carney]

Obama's "civilian national security force" scares the heck out of me. I'm sure Pelosi and Reid are going along with this.

[kzgoblu]

cathy and cjean

That article www.nbcaugusta.com......about Keyes lawsuit re:Obama is now up on Drudge if anyone still can't access it.

[jackshel]

we must fight the destruction of are freedoms before it is to late! Many in this country will be amazed when the marxists come for them,it's shocking that people who the general public views as smart can be so stupid.We have become a country of over educated idiots who believe what ever the msm and whack job "educators"tell them.RESIST

[iowavette]

For what it's worth, you're about the 12th reference, second page, on a Yahoo search for "Obama birth certificate." I stopped using google when they bashed Bush over internet security and then proceeded to hand security over to the Chinese government for it's people internet usage. Unabashed, unexamined hypocrisy.

[Spartan]

GuyInGothamX,

You think it is OK for you to attack and threaten Atlas and Readers because they post comments you don't like. You accuse them of things that are just in your own mind and not true. It is usually the one who makes unsubstantiated accusations that has the tendency to behave just like he/she claims others are behaving. If you have contacted the organizations you claim you have, they must think you are strange because you have no proof and never will because it is just in your own mind. If you read Atlas and disagree with any comment, then post your own comments. Don't make threats! Otherwise, once you think you have your evidence, go to the FBI, tell them what you suspect about the site and make your accusations. They will then know that you are an authentic Space Cadet. In the meantime, keep monitoring Atlas, someone ought to be monitoring you. You try to hide your identity because you are afraid of the consequences your threatening words will bring. The vast majority of people in America don't kill each other just because they disagree, even when the disagreement may turn into an argument and they get mad at each other. I don't think anyone who posts comments to Atlas has violent tendencies.