ABC News: New Al Qaeda Tape Surfaces Despite US Efforts to Block It

ABC News: New Al Qaeda Tape Surfaces Despite US Efforts to Block It: "US officials declined to comment on what role the government played, saying it is their policy not to comment on sensitive intelligence operations.

But intelligence sources say the US, with help from German and Malaysian authorities, were able to disrupt al Qaeda's normal internet release method.

'It's something we've been trying to do for some time,' said former CIA intelligence officer John Kiriakou, an ABC News consultant.

Intelligence sources say the US has made major strides in infiltrating the al Qaeda internet distribution network and chose to use its knowledge this year to keep the 9/ll tape from coming out immediately.

US officials said they did not expect they could keep the tape permanently blocked ."

Here is the tape, and the beginning of my post. And here is the rest of it.


Where in the US constitution is the First Amendment restricted to Americans? Does our government have the right to interfere with the Internet in this way because el Qaeda is located outside our borders?

With all due disrespect toward Islamofascists but respect toward the good things the Quran also teaches, here is an offer:

"In the name of Madison and the other Forefathers of the American Revolution, I state my understanding that the Constitution of the USA was written to guarantee the rights of Man to all people. Among the most sacred of those rights is the freedom of speach. The US government has no more right to censor el Qaeda than it does to censor Barack Obama, John McCain, or Ralph Nader.

In the name of the Constitution, I offer to distribute any tapes or other materials el Qaeda can get to me.

May all people live in peace and justice.

SeattleJew (aka Steve Schwartz)."

Of course el Qaeda may not want SJ to post the tapes because I have also posted the Mohamed cartoons they dislike. So, I will go one step further. If they would prfer to NOT post on SJ, I will do all I can to see that the tapes are widely distributed on the web. Surly many sites will post them.

am aware this may piss off the government and can imagine an effort to prosecute me for aiding abetting the enemy, but I also hope and assume

If the US government is in such a sad state that we can not distribute our own propaganda, then el Qaeda has won.
that we will soon have an administration more in line with the America I love and that point, the argument about who the REAL enemy is may begin.

Here is a good discussion of the issue of who the constitution was written for.

and another:

The Constitution does protect the freedom of speech of every citizen, and even of non-citizens — but only from restriction by the Congress (and, by virtue of the 14th Amendment, by state legislatures, too). There are plenty of other places where you could speak but where speech can and is suppressed. For example, freedom of speech can be and often is restricted in a work place, for example: employers can restrict your right to speak in the work place about politics, about religion, about legal issues, even about Desperate Housewives. The same restrictions that apply to the government do not apply to private persons, employers, or establishments. For another example, the government could not prohibit the sale of any newspaper lest it breech the freedom of the press. No newsstand, however, must carry every paper against its owners' wishes.