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Craig Carter: 'Freedom is funny and messy' | Opinion | argusobserver.com - Ontario Argus Observer

Author: Danilo Araa Arao, University of the Philippines Diliman

By awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov on 8 October 2021, the Norwegian Nobel Committee put the spotlight on the state of press freedom in the Philippines and Russia and rightly so.

The Philippines is ranked 130th and Russia 152nd in the Reporters Without Borders 2021 World Press Freedom Index. The Philippines and Russia also ranked 7th and 10th, respectively, in the Committee to Protect Journalists 2021 Global Impunity Index.

While the media situations in both countries deserve scrutiny, the Philippines is a peculiarly interesting case. The Philippine press is commonly perceived to be among the freest in Asia, but it remains one of the most dangerous places in the world to practice journalism. Press freedom and human rights defenders continue to denounce the prevailing culture of impunity that the government claims ended under the administration of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.

The cases filed against leading online media organisation Rappler and its CEO Maria Ressa made global headlines. Duterte criticised Rappler for being peddler of fake news and its license was revoked in 2018 ironic given Ressas investigative work exposing disinformation on social media. In June 2020, Ressa and former Rappler journalist Reynaldo Santos, Jr. were convicted of cyber libel.

Like the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos who ordered broadcast network ABSCBNs closure in 1972, Duterte said in 2019 that ABSCBN would be out when its franchise expired in 2020. In a House of Representatives vote in July 2020, the broadcast network was shut down.

Under the Duterte administration, news media organisations and journalists have been red-tagged or accused of being communist sympathisers, and at least two journalists have been arrested and detained. There have also been cyberattacks launched at the websites of news media organisations in an attempt to prevent them from doing their work. While the distributed denial-of-service attacks which overwhelm servers with too many data requests to shut it down have been happening since 2018, the most recent attack on two news media organisations was carried out by the Philippine Army.

At least 190 journalists have been killed since 1986, 21 of them under the Duterte administration. The prevailing climate of media repression sends a chilling message to journalists and media workers in the country that they should toe the administration line.

National and local elections in the Philippines will be held in May 2022. It is uncertain to what extent the state of press freedom will be raised as an election issue.

Candidates are expected to mouth the usual rhetoric about preserving democracy, including the importance of a vibrant press. As might be expected, Duterte and his supporters have denied media repression. They claimed that ABSCBNs shutdown and Rapplers legal woes are isolated cases that do not affect other news media organisations in the country.

As certain government officials continue to engage in red-tagging journalists and news media organisations, government agencies argue that their officials are merely expressing their personal opinions and not official policy. The Philippine National Police denies the existence of a culture of impunity that violates the rights of journalists and other sectors of society.

Journalists, media workers and other concerned groups need to push for press freedom to be an election issue. Candidates in the 2022 polls should explain clearly where they stand, beyond the usual rhetoric of defending democracy and basic freedoms.

For a president who is known for joking about serious matters, Duterte now finds it awkward to congratulate Ressa. His spokesperson belatedly acknowledged Ressa for being the first Filipino Nobel Peace Prize awardee while trying to downplay notions that the award was a slap in the governments face. Its not credible for Duterte sincerely to congratulate Ressa, whose journalistic achievement is borne out of fighting the repression he perpetuates.

In the Philippines, threats to press freedom are real. It should not be reduced to a mere joke, especially for those who claim to be defending it while engaging in repression.

Danilo Araa Arao is Associate Professor at the Department of Journalism, the University of the Philippines Diliman, Special Lecturer at the Department of Journalism, the Polytechnic University of the Philippines Santa Mesa, Associate Editor at Bulatlat Multimedia and Editor at Media Asia.

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Guest Column: When it comes to vaccination, freedom has its limits - The Bulletin

Symposium ByMark Brnovich on Nov 2, 2021 at 1:51 pm

This article is part of a symposium on the upcoming argument in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. A preview of the case is here.

Mark Brnovich is the attorney general of Arizona.

the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Any noble government that believes its law-abiding citizens must be restrained from owning or responsibly carrying firearms does not understand the difference between citizens and subjects. Our Founders clearly grasped the importance of We the People to defend ourselves against any threat that might arise from personal confrontation to political tyranny. Citizens of a free society must take on certain responsibilities, or their helplessness would be unsustainable. The Second Amendment is our countrys clear, concise, and lawful acknowledgement of a God-given right of self-defense that in our land of the free and home of the brave is truly self-evident.

For this reason, any state statutes containing widespread prohibitions or overly burdensome regulations on the concealed carry of firearms must be immediately questioned. Law-abiding citizens should not require the consent of faceless bureaucrats to exercise their right to keep and bear arms, and no local politicians can override the Second Amendment or the natural right of self-preservation.

Im proud to be leading a coalition of 26 state attorneys general who believe New Yorks subjectiveissue concealed-carry permit lawsharm public safety and are contrary to the original meaning of the Second Amendment. The state of New York requires citizens to demonstrate a special need for self-protection distinguishable from that of the general community or of persons engaged in the same profession to obtain a permit to carry a concealed firearm outside their home. Practically speaking, New Yorkers must prove that they have already been a victim of violent crimes before they may protect themselves from potentially becoming victims of more violent crime.

Our coalition believes that the original public meaning of the Second Amendment is a clear recognition of the right ofcitizens to bear arms for self-defense outside of their homes. Citing District of Columbia v. Heller, we argue, InHeller, following the text and history of the Second Amendment, this Court held that the federal constitution guarantee[s] the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation. Further, Heller clarified that any prohibition that makes it impossible for citizens to engage in self-defense violates the Second Amendment.

Forty-two states, including Arizona, have objective-issue systems where a permit is provided to an individual who meets a certain set of basic criteria, including a background check, mental health records check, fingerprinting, knowledge of applicable laws, firearms training, or other requirements.

In fact, our coalition demonstrates with empirical evidence that citizens who are concealed-carry holders are significantly less likely than the general public to commit a crime. We also argue that objective-issue permitting and concealed-carry permits decrease crime in general and allow citizens to defend themselves outside their homes. A 2013 review by the National Research Council reveals that victims of crime who resist with a gun are less likely to suffer serious injury than those who either resist in other ways or offer no resistance at all.

With such empirical evidence, and similar results across a wide range of jurisdictions in our country, why is the Second Amendment so often under attack?

The first reason is that, like in other areas of our lives, ignorance breeds contempt. With other tools such as automobiles or computers, its the people that have a sound knowledge of their importance and safe operation that seem to be the strongest advocates. Americans deserve more public information and education on our Second Amendment, as the essential part of the Bill of Rights that it is.

The second reason is more nefarious. There are special interest groups who do understand the importance of free people being armed, and they consciously seek to undermine that pillar of individual and collective American strength, perhaps as part of their radical agenda for reinventing our country.

As Benjamin Franklin famously said following the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, we have a republic, if we can keep it.

Preserving all of our fundamental rights, including the ability to keep and bear arms, is essential to maintaining our constitutional republic. Government officials who do not understand this must be challenged and enlightened. If the day ever comes when our country cannot, or will not, uphold the Bill of Rights, we will no longer be a free and independent people.

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The entire political platform of Glenn Youngkin, the Republican who won Virginias gubernatorial election on Tuesday, is made clear in just one (despicably pandering) quote by him: Critical Race Theory has moved into our school system and we have to remove it.

But hes not the only one who supports that ignorant and racist platform. Its also the 1.7 million Virginians who voted for him.

And its not just those voters who enthusiastically supported that ignorant and racist platform. Its also elected and/or appointed Republican officials in at least 36 state and local governmental bodies who have passed, introduced, or are considering anti-Critical Race Theory (CRT) laws, ordinances, rules and policies.

Eight states (Arizona, Idaho, Iowa, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas) have passed anti-CRT legislation. Such legislative initiatives ban any discussions about conscious and unconscious bias, privilege, discrimination, and oppression . State actors in Montana and South Dakota have denounced teaching concepts associated with CRT. The state school boards in Florida, Georgia, Utah, and Oklahoma introduced new guidelines barring CRT-related discussions. Local boards in Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia also criticize CRT. Nearly 20 additional states have introduced or plan to introduce similar legislation.

This avalanche of blatant anti-Blackness, euphemistically called anti-CRT, is based solely on ignorance and racism. An excellent example of such woeful ignorance and underlying racism is evidenced by a white voter who was interviewed by a reporter in Virginia shortly before the election. Heres the actual conversation:

Q: Whats the most important issue in the governors race ?

A: Getting back to the basics of teaching children. Not teaching them Critical Race Theory.

Q: And what is Critical Race Theory?

A: Well, Im not gonna get into the specifics of it because I dont understand it that much . What little bit that I know I dont care for.

Q: And what have you heard that you dont like?

A: ... I dont, uh, [long pause] I dont have that much knowledge on it, but its something that I dont care for.

For the record, CRT is not what ignorant white racist voters, ignorant white racist officials, and ignorant white racist candidates claim it is. And it is not taught and was never designed to be taught in pre-schools, elementary schools, middle schools, junior high schools or high schools.

CRT is a law school concept that grew out of Critical Legal Studies. As defined in the Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society, CRT examines legal issues as they pertain to race and racism. Furthermore, as explained in Race, Ethnicity, and Education, CRT examines how so-called colorblind laws promote structural racism.

The American Bar Association (ABA) notes that CRT is a practice of interrogating the role of race and racism in society [and CRT] emerged in the legal academy.... Moreover, the ABA reports that CRT ... critiques how the social construction of race and institutionalized racism perpetuate a racial caste system that relegates people of color to the bottom tiers. ... CRT recognizes that racism is not a bygone relic of the past. Instead, it acknowledges that the legacy of slavery, segregation, and the imposition of second-class citizenship on Black Americans and other people of color continue to permeate the social fabric of this nation.

And CRT wasnt created in the past several months election cycle. The then-unnamed concept was set forth about 50 years ago by Harvard Law School professor Derrick Bell in his 1978 book entitled Race, Racism and American Law.

His groundbreaking Critical Legal Studies scholarship on the issue of past and present structural/institutional racism within the American legal system was subsequently expanded upon by professors at the University of Alabama Law School, SUNY-Buffalo Law School, UCLA Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, University of Hawaii Law School, University of Wisconsin Law School, and Columbia University Law School. In fact, it was Columbia University Law School professor Kimberle Crenshaw who refined Critical Legal Studies by later coining the phrase Critical Race Theory.

The fact that ignorant racists have fraudulently transformed CRT into a monster that can carry racist candidates to victory on Election Day is outrageous. But its America. Thats exactly why, the day after the election, I posted the following on my Twitter and Instagram accounts: Dont be surprised when white racist Americans in white racist America vote as a majority for white racist American candidates with a white racist American political platform. Be surprised when they dont.

Racism is America and America is racism. Remember that 41 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 enslaved Black men, women and children.

Remember that 13 of the first 18 U.S. presidents enslaved Black men, women, boys and girls.

Remember that the U.S. Constitution in 1789 defined enslaved Blacks as subhuman by counting them as a mere three-fifths of a human being. It established the racist Electoral College. It continued the importation of Africans into American slavery for at least two more decades. And it tightened the grip of slavery by requiring free states to return escapees to slave states.

Remember that the U.S. Supreme Court, in the notorious 1857 Dred Scott case, ruled that Blacks had no rights which the white man was bound to respect and remember that that ruling has never I repeat never been overturned by the Supreme Court.

Remember that Congress in 1865 didnt completely abolish slavery by ratifying the Thirteenth Amendment but instead actually created the prison industrial complex and mass incarceration by stating that people can legally be held in slavery and involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been convicted....

Remember that KKK-endorsed, Nazi-loving Donald Drumpf won in 2016 with 63 million Americans voting for him and, even in his 2020 defeat, got 74 million Americans to vote for him.

Remember that here in 2021, Congress, which is elected by American voters, continues to refuse to pass the Emmet Till Anti-Lynching bill that is designed to simply and finally specify lynching as a hate crime, just as it refuses to pass the 1918 Dyer Anti-Lynching bill, the 2018 Justice for Victims of Lynching bill, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, the For the People Act, and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

By the way, as of February this year, Republican state lawmakers have carried over, pre-filed, or introduced 253 bills with provisions that restrict voting access i.e., Black, Brown and Red voting access in 43 states.

In 2016, I wrote an article here in the Tribune pointing out that Time magazine had cited a YouGov/Economist exit poll in which the supporters of Drumpf were asked if they approved or disapproved of emancipation for Blacks. Nearly half a whopping 47% disapproved, had some reservations, or werent sure.

Therefore, its no surprise that, in 2021, America is filled with racists who vote. And win.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Then register and vote. And outnumber the racists so we can defeat the racists. By doing so, we will finally change America.

Michael Coard, Esq. can be followed on Twitter, Instagram, and his YouTube channel as well as at AvengingTheAncestors.com. His Radio Courtroom show can be heard on WURD 96.1 FM or 900 AM. And his TV Courtroom show can be seen on PhillyCAM/Verizon Fios/Comcast. The views expressed in this column are not necessarily those of The Philadelphia Tribune.

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Scotland have suffered a couple of bruising defeats in the Super 12s stage of the tournament

Kyle Coetzer has urged Scotland to bid farewell to the T20 World Cup in style as they prepare to end their campaign against Pakistan on Sunday.

The Scots have lost all four of their Group 2 fixtures and were demolished by both India and Afghanistan.

Unbeaten Pakistan are already assured of their place in the semi-finals.

"We have to make the most of every game that we get - and what better game and what better team to play against than Pakistan?" said captain Coetzer.

"We've got one last show, one last crack of the whip while we're out here. We're not going to play together for a long period of time. We're not going to play together until April probably.

"Pakistan are at the top of their game at the moment. That's just an ultimate test and to challenge yourself against them.

"We'll go in there with as much enjoyment and freedom as we possibly can. We have some skills we haven't yet shown in the Super 12s, so this is the last chance we get to show them."

Scotland made it through to the Super 12s with victories over Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea and Oman, but, as well as losing heavily to Afghanistan and India, they suffered disappointment against fellow Associate nation Namibia.

Coetzer's men did put up a decent fight against New Zealand but again fell short.

Referring to Friday's chastening eight-wicket defeat at the hands of India, Coetzer said: "I firmly believe we had to go through that and go through some of these performances to realise how much further the T20 format has developed, even since the last time we played in it, which was 2016.

"We didn't manage to get through the group stages then, but we did this time around, so we're sure our development is there. But the development of the game is moving at an amazing rate."

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T20 World Cup: Scotland urged to play with 'enjoyment and freedom' against Pakistan - BBC News