Jane Grey Swisshelm Quotes
We have pledged our honor that the paper we edit will discuss any subject we have a mind. ...
She had started this newspapers after the premises of her last paper had been ransacked by rowdies insulted by the fact that she wrote of things that were considered private. In one instance a prominent slave owner who had business in town brought a slave servant who gave birth to a child in St. Cloud. The owner sent the mother and child to his Southern home and Swisshelm wrote an editorial and claimed he was a felon who kidnapped a child in Minnesota and transported her into slavery in the South.
Jane Grey Swisshelm, 1815-1884, Newspaper Editor, Abolitionist & Reformer, The St. Cloud Democrat (Minnesota), First Issue
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In September of 2005 a Danish Newspaper published some political cartoons showing the hypocrisy of some Muslims who use Islam to justify murder of innocents and terrorism. Months later, in January of 2006 many in the Middle East protested vehemently and Muslim fatal riots broke out because the Prophet Muhammad's visage was depicted against Islamic tradition. Many Muslim nations started a boycott against Denmark. Many Muslim leaders claimed that insulting religion was an “abuse” of freedom of speech including those from nations which regularly publish material that is virulent against Christians and Jews.
Two decades later Jefferson, after his Presidency, had developed a different attitude towards the press. See {585116}.
The statement was in protest to the Spanish arrest of a Syrian born journalist, Taysir Alluni, who had been accused of supporting Al-Quaeda cells in Spain by moving money to the cells. Alluni was well connected with Al-Quaeda as he had reported on them for some time and had personally interviewed Osama Bin Laden. Many believe that the cash was a cultural misinterpretation of the Muslim custom of sending cash as a wedding present which the Spanish authorities may have misinterpreted as financing of terrorism. Many believe that he is the victim of Anti-Islamic bias. While many legitimate news organizations are are troubled by this case, the Syrian protest is particularly ironic. In Syria there is not freedom of the press and any reporter can go to jail for offenses from insulting Islam to disparaging the Syrian government and its officials. There is no such thing as freedom of expression in Syria and there has not been since the Baathists gained control of the government.
In September of 2005 a Danish Newspaper published some political cartoons showing the hypocrisy of some Muslims who use Islam to justify murder of innocents and terrorism. Months later, in January of 2006 many in the Middle East protested vehemently and Muslim riots broke out because the Prophet Muhammad's visage was depicted against Islamic tradition. Many Muslim nations started a boycott against Denmark. Many Muslim leaders claimed that insulting religion was an “abuse” of freedom of speech including those from nations which regularly publish material that is virulent against Christians and Jews. Westerners came to the support of Denmark. The United States which usually supports freedom of the press made this veiled criticism of the Danish Newspaper.
Note how the second paragraph nullifies the first of the government declares an emergency. This is a trick that is very common in constitutions.
For a corroberating quote see Quotation 644762
Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm was an American journalist, publisher, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate. She was one of the first women journalists hired by Horace Greeley at his New York Tribune. She was active as a writer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and as a publisher and editor in St. Cloud, Minnesota, where she founded a string of newspapers and regularly wrote for them.
