In a wide-ranging interview, SuicideGirls’ political contributor David Seaman talks about today’s top issues with former Louisiana Governor and current GOP 2012 presidential contender Buddy Roemer, who, during his 40 year plus political career, has served both the Democratic and Republican parties.
Gov. Roemer sounds off on Barack Obama, NDAA, SOPA/PIPA, censorship, government corruption, Ron Paul, and how he is not an “isolationist” as Mr. Paul is. Plus, Roemer also shares his views on the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements.
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David Seaman is an independent journalist. He has been a lively guest on CNN Headline News, FOX News, ABC News Digital, among others, and on his humble YouTube channel, DavidSeamanOnline. Some say he was recently censored by a certain large media corporation for posting a little too much truth… For more, find him on G+ and Twitter.
The White House is asking YOU to submit questions (and vote on other people’s) for a special online “hangout” that Barack Obama’s doing in association with YouTube and G+ to coincide with the State of the Union address. He’ll be answering several of the “top voted” questions during a dedicated YouTube broadcast on January 30th, and a lucky few who submitted will be invited to hang with the Prez live on G+.
Please head over to youtube.com/whitehouse and post a question about the NDAA over there. Unfortunately, it appears they are deleting these NDAA comments — almost unbelievable. When this videocast was recorded, there were 13,913 questions asking about NDAA. As of 4:16 PM ET today, however, that number has been thinned to only 1,156 questions. Land of the free…
**UPDATE: January 25, 2012 – 8.34 PM PST**
Yet more questions for Obama regarding the #NDAA are being removed from the submissions system – this, despite the fact they’re getting overwhelmingly positive feedback from the page’s visitors (see screen grab below).
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David Seaman is an independent journalist. He has been a lively guest on CNN Headline News, FOX News, ABC News Digital, among others, and on his humble YouTube channel, DavidSeamanOnline. Some say he was recently censored by a certain large media corporation for posting a little too much truth… For more, find him on G+ and Twitter.
I thought it was a hoax when I read this morning that US Senator Rand Paul was detained in Nashville by the TSA. It is, however, real. If ever there were a time to stand together and speak out against the out-of-control police state, it is today.
Specifically, I feel that:
The TSA, which detained US Senator Rand Paul this morning for refusing a full-body gropedown, is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and must be de-funded and scrapped. It intimidates citizens and searches us without warrants or cause, in CLEAR VIOLATION of our rights.
The NDAA’s indefinite detention without trial provision is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and completely disgusting. It must be amended immediately; those who drafted and supported these provisions should be removed from office. It’s a criminal act and a near declaration of war against the American people.
The proposed Enemy Expatriation Act, or EEA, is even worse.
Bills like SOPA, and global treaties like ACTA, enable government and corporate censorship. Such a push toward totalitarian censorship is DISGUSTING AND UNACCEPTABLE.
The dishonestly titled “Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011” is OUTRAGEOUS. It damages the Internet’s freedom and provides a wide open door to Big Brother censorship and archiving of PRIVATE personal communication online. This affects YOU. Incidentally, this legislation does very little to protect minors from exploitation. It has been given a ridiculous name so that any politician voting against it faces political suicide: “How could you vote against protecting the kids?!”
Hollywood, once a progressive force for good that questioned the political status quo, has now become just another cynical lobbying power that has no problem permanently weakening the freedom of speech, as long as they protect their lame franchise major motion picture profits. Time to boycott Hollywood. The MPAA’s strong-arming of politicians to support SOPA/PIPA, as well as their television networks’ pathetic coverage of these issues, is unacceptable.
Disobedience is civil. Disobedience is patriotic. Speak up, speak out.
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David Seaman is an independent journalist. He has been a lively guest on CNN Headline News, FOX News, ABC News Digital, among others, and on his humble YouTube channel, DavidSeamanOnline. Some say he was recently censored by a certain large media corporation for posting a little too much truth… For more, find him on G+ and Twitter.
SG Political Contributor David Seaman gives us a simple primer on the NDAA – a bill Obama signed into law on New Year’s Eve, when he thought the world wouldn’t be watching. Why you should be scared of it, and why it’s unconscionable and unconstitutional.
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David Seaman is an independent journalist. He has been a lively guest on CNN Headline News, FOX News, ABC News Digital, among others, and on his humble YouTube channel, DavidSeamanOnline. Some say he was recently censored by a certain large media corporation for posting a little too much truth… For more, find him on G+ and Twitter.
Note to men: if your sense of masculinity depends on avoiding ever having to buy a plastic tube filled with cotton, you’ve got way bigger problems than you realize.
Earlier this year, I was watching a repeat episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. The guest on particular this episode was Dr. Oz, who was tasked with answering a series of health questions, many of which were related to women’s reproductive health.
After Dr. Oz answered a question about douching, Oprah turned to a gentleman who was sitting in the audience and (with some humor) apologized to him for being stuck listening to all the conversation about “womens’” stuff and being seen in on TV for participating in an episode that dealt with, among other topics, menstruation and menopause issues.
The gentleman turned out to be Major League Baseball player, Jim Thome, who plays for the Chicago Whitesox. He had brought his wife to the Oprah show as a gift (tickets to the Oprah Show were nearly impossible to come by). Oprah’s interaction with Jim Thorne left me fuming. Why should we feel bad for him? Why would Oprah feel bad for him? I am an Oprah fan, but her apology was uncharacteristic for someone who spends her life advocating for and helping women.
News Corporation chief executive and chairman Rupert Murdoch lashed out on Twitter against the changing tide of public opinion with regards to SOPA and PIPA. In this video post, SG Political Contributor David Seaman talks about why big media corporations such as Fox and Disney support these ugly sister acts, and gives us an overview of yesterday’s day of internet action against them.
He also gives us an update on NDAA – one of the most treasonous bills ever signed into law by Congress according to some – and points us in the direction of the grass roots groups who are seeking to recall every congressman that supported it. Also, David talks about last night’s NDAA segment on Coast to Coast, in which he participated.
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David Seaman is an independent journalist. He has been a lively guest on CNN Headline News, FOX News, ABC News Digital, among others, and on his humble YouTube channel, DavidSeamanOnline. Some say he was recently censored by a certain large media corporation for posting a little too much truth… For more, find him on G+ and Twitter.
While, as a subscriber funded site, we cannot blackout on #J18, we would like to express our profound gratitude and support to those that do. Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, CraigsList, BoingBoing, RawStory, and YourAnonNews are among the 7,000+ sites that are going dark or marking their opposition to SOPA in some form.
Many internet users know SuicideGirls as a pinup site, but, as a social network that predates both MySpace and Facebook, much of our content is user generated. Under the restrictive and open-ended terms of SOPA it would be virtually impossible for us to operate. It would be an utterly impractical and economically unviable task to police the providence of all the content our users upload and the links they post prior to publishing, and being forced to do so would seriously stifle the free speech our members currently enjoy.
