Jason Lewis advocates terrorizing Vets who speak out

[annm4peace]

A posting about the Vets for Freedom stopping at Forest Lake, I made last week from another website included the name of a Veteran for Peace member. Note: a Veteran. That posting which was pulled because " a Veteran" was receiving death threats, harassing calls at home..etc. It was the posting that Kathrine Kerstine from Star Tribune put on on her Star Tribune website. Anyhow.. I found out a couple days ago by reading TC daily plant that Jason Lewis was advocating harassment of this "Veteran". Just because the Veteran felt that the neo-con group front group Vets for Freedom should not be allowed to speak to the students in a closed door event.

I wonder if Jason Lewis and his listeners do this to every person who's letter is posted in "Letters to the Editor", that they don't agree with. I know they need to get their ratings up but it seems like the Jason Lewis and the station could be fined, or lose their license,, or even worse, they could be sued if something happened to this Vet or those who's letters were published by newspapers.

It doesn't see right that the FCC doesn't pull this stations license.

Just amazing.
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/10344

By Steve Perry , Minnesota Monitor
March 30, 2008
After a scheduled appearance by the pro-war veterans’ group Vets for Freedom at Forest Lake Area High School was canceled early last week, bloggers and talk radio denizens on the right reacted with outrage — much of it directed expressly at Stillwater blogger, activist, and military veteran Karl Bremer for his role in a letter-writing campaign that contributed to the cancellation of the event. Republican U.S. Rep Michelle Bachmann, of Stillwater, was to appear as well.


Voices: Thug radio: Are Jason Lewis and KTLK now in the jihad business?


The websites Look True North and Minnesota Majority posted letter generators for writing to Bremer that include his photograph and, for a time, included his home address and home and work phone numbers as well.

On Tuesday evening, right-wing KTLK-FM talk host Jason Lewis had the following exchange with a caller (emphasis added):


Caller: Back to this Bremer. To put a little fight back into the Republicans, what you need to do is get Karl Bremer’s address, phone number, and his other members of this little Democrat underground that protests, and let’s get a little protest going on his front doorstep so he can get a little taste of his own medicine. Hold his feet to the fire. Make him responsible for some of the actions he does…



Jason Lewis: I don’t lead a jihad against individuals unless they happen to be in the public arena. Of course, you could make the argument this guy’s now in the public arena. But if citizens are truly fed up with a small minority of socialist kooks in Stillwater, led by this Karl Bremer character who’s got a bizarre obsession with Michele Bachmann, I can’t be held accountable for what citizens might come up with. If you want to let this guy know you think he’s a bum, that’s up to you. I’m just saying that people ought to know his name, because he’s the guy, the ringleader, in Veterans for Peace and all this, that literally are censoring veterans.

Caller: Right, right. Well, or maybe a website. If they have a website, they could crash the website. You know, if you don’t want any legal repercussions for what might happen. Because he would probably get some kook fringe lawyer to come back and sue you or K-Talk. I can understand that, not wanting to have any legal repercussion or responsibility…

Lewis: Yeah, right. Well, the problem with these protesters—the problem they’ve got is, they entered the public arena. They are out there. What is it, democrat underground dot org or something? Democratic underground dot com. They are out there in the ether. Karl Bremer has been out there putting his name in the papers in his letters to the editor bashing Michele Bachmann. So he is now a public person, and hence he’s going to take the slings and arrows just like he hands them out. Long overdue, to be sure.

[qb]

1. Whiny neocons alwasy pull out the "censorship/free speech" lie

whenever someone calls them on their bullshit. Convincing a school that it needn't be a tool for neocon propaganda is not censorship. Convincing an advertiser not to support offensive speech violates no one's right to free speech (as claimed by Limbaugh and others). Considering how hard these neocons try to portray themselves as "tough guys" they sure whine a lot.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

2. Because for some reason, they think that the 1st Amendment means

...they have the right to a paycheck to say what they want to say. It doesn't.


And they think that Freedom of Speech means "I'm free to say what I want, and you're free to sit there and shut up."

[dflprincess]

3. There are laws in Minnesota about making "terroristic threats"

They've been around longer than the terroism fad and actually have more to do with stalking. I hope "a Veteran" would contact his county attorney's office and see if any charges can be filed.

[Avidor]

4. Read more at Hal Kimball's Blue Man in Red District blog...

http://buildourparty.blogspot.com/

[dflprincess]

5. I thought this line from your link was odd

"The integrity of True North and Minnesota Majority is in question here."

Wouldn't using "intergrity" in the same sentence as True North and Minnesota Majority be an oxymoron?

Seriously, thanks for the link I found it interesting and a good companion piece to this whole story.

[Avidor]

6. Not the first time for Jason Lewis...

Jason Lewis called for the "outing" of people who wrote letters to newspapers:

Listen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw4BMuvfWe4

[Minnesota Raindog]

7. Why do you think they call KTLK Thug Radio? n/t