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Fitna is now playing. Updated

Geert Wilders' Fitna the Movie, turned up on Liveleak, and then on some torrents. Soon it will be all over.

Wow. In one day Liveleak recieves threats serious enough to pull the movie after a strong statement in support of free speech. I have a working movie below the Liveleak statement. See for yourself:

Liveleak pulls Fitna


Fitna the Movie

Fitna the movie... an elaborate hoax? Updated and bumped.

Updates: The movie is online.

[See below for the update.] Or just hacked? The movie (if there even is one) was due for release yesterday. Except the official site doing the supposed releasing has been shut down:

This site has been suspended while Network Solutions is investigating whether the site's content is in violation of the Network Solutions Acceptable Use Policy. Network Solutions has received a number of complaints regarding this site that are under investigation. For more information about Network Solutions Acceptable Use Policy visit the following URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/legal/aup.jsp

The British version of the site, appears to have been hacked. Here's a screenshot in case something changes, but maybe it wasn't hacked at all:

NO FITNA The Movie. It should be fairly obvious by now that there is no "Fitna" movie. No movie to insult Islam or Muslims or anyone else for that matter. The month of April is upon us, we all know the month of April starts with the 1st April and that day is famous for (practical) jokes.

Holland might not be considered as a country with a great sense of humour but ever once in awhile even in Holland they crack a joke. So, bottom line; if you are here to find the Famous Fitna movie I guess you have been had !!!

Yeah, it's not quite April Fools Day yet, but a joke is a joke, right? If it was a joke, it was damn excellent. Not only did Geert Wilders piss off millions of Muslims without releasing anything, he managed to prove a point that one can be censored for basically, nothing. Nothing empirical at least, only that Western appeasement of intolerant Muslims tends to trump free speech, even potential free speech. But then again, this British version, may have been a joke all along.

If Wilders is a victim of Western censorship via appeasement, it's ironic. If of Wilders' creation, it's hypocritical, as he is no free speech advocate either:

The leader of the Netherlands' right-wing Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, has called for a ban on the sale and distribution of the Qur'an. He would also outlaw the book’s use in the mosque and at home. Mr Wilders says the Qur'an (Koran) is a fascist book which promotes violence and is similar to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

Nevertheless, if things are the way they appear regardless of the current state of confusion, more irony is at play. Network Solutions, who happened to host the currently suspended FITNA Movie site, also hosts Hezbollah's website. Yes, that Hezbollah, the declared terrorist organization. Interesting, that a U.S. based web hosting service gladly hosts the website of terrorists, but refuses to host Wilders' yet-to-be anti-Koran website/film. That looks less like respecting delicate sensibilities and more like picking sides. HotAir commenters are all over it [A big hat tip to them].

Joke or not, Wilders is riding high on this wave of publicity.

Last Monday I was for three television interviews a guest in Denmark...

But is this 15-minute Armageddon-inducing video really coming out? Wilders says yes:

Soon, the short film Fitna on the Internet to see, at least for April 1 and no, it's not April 1st hoax. It is now high time for the short film.

Perhaps the fool will be revealed on April 1st.

Update: Allah's been over this a few times since I posted:

Network Solutions (understandably) has had nothing to say about the matter. The facts as we know them: Hizbollah.org was up and running smoothly as of yesterday morning, then the righty blogosphere started complaining about NS registering domain names for terrorists while getting froggy with Wilders, then suddenly Hizbollah.org wasn’t online. Causation or coincidence? Report on Arrakis and the Jawas say it’s the former.

Here's what Network Solutions has to say on censoring Wilders' website, now that they've finally said something about it:

Over the last month, Network Solutions received a number of complaints regarding the website FITNATHEMOVIE.COM. At the same time, our hosting customer for this site also made several public comments regarding their plans for the use of this site. In response to the complaints and the customer’s public comments, Network Solutions has made repeated requests to discuss the matter with our customer. We have also requested to review the planned content prior to it being loaded onto the site to determine whether the content violates Network Solutions’ Acceptable Use Policy. We are still waiting to hear from our customer. In the interim, we have temporarily suspended the site.

You'd think a guy with a serious agenda getting so much publicity about his impending release of a controversial movie, would at least talk to the people shutting down his site, the one site dedicated to all of this... Don't you think?

Joke or not?

And as for Network Solutions... A bald-faced lie is no way to keep or attract more customers:

Network Solutions is by no means taking any action to limit freedom of speech or to preemptively censor content.

Disingenous BBC: Antarctica melting...

...And there's nobody else who disputes that. And it's probably because of you.

At least that's what the BBC suggests. The other day I heard this report which sounded like trademark legacy media journalism on another sign of the impending Global Warming apocalypse, er, Climate Change as it is now called:

"I didn't expect to see things happen this quickly. The ice shelf is hanging by a thread - we'll know in the next few days or weeks what its fate will be."

...Professor Vaughan predicted in 1993 that the northern part of the Wilkins Ice Shelf would be lost within 30 years if climate warming continued. But he said it is happening more quickly than he expected...

Scientists say the Antarctic Peninsula, which juts out into the Southern Ocean towards the tip of South America, has experienced unprecedented warming over the last 50 years...

The story was cleverly written. There's not one mention tying this to Global Warming, rather it's blamed on Antarctic Warming. But you wouldn't think that by what the BBC chooses to emphasize... for example the leading paragraph in bold does not distinguish between 'global' and 'antarctic':

...what scientists say is further evidence of a warming climate.

and later a bold subheader shouting

'Unprecedented' warming

Out of 19 paragraphs, the BBC gives two to the "other side." That other side apparently balances out the story by merely suggesting that the ice shelf in question might take just a bit longer to break off.

Now read this story; a completely different perspective on the same thing:

The high-profile collapse of some Antarctica's ice shelves is likely the result of natural current fluctuations, not global warming, says a leading British expert on polar climates.

This surprising finding is supported by analysis of data from the European Space Agency's ERS-1 satellite, according to Duncan Wingham, Professor of Climate Physics at University College London. The data, measuring changes in ice thickness across the Antarctic ice sheet using the polar orbiting satellite, show areas of growth from snowfall are as common as areas of decline. [emphasis added]

'Natural fluctuations'? 'Not global warming'? I wonder why the BBC chose to leave that out?

Via Ace and this guy.

Socialist Creep in New York

Here's a link to that Cato study.

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Trend or Train?

That would be the Nanny State. I present to you this link, without further comment.

Easter

Happy Easter, and such a nice day to go with it. Come to think of it, I don't remember an Easter that was not a nice sunny day.

And for a company that practically specializes in Easter Eggs, I am a little surprised by this.
Although Google could be celebrating Easter with tons of virtual Easter eggs, I don't want to waste my time searching for the possibly nonexistent... So I made my own Update: Google apparently has its own Easter logo, here:
Why they chose not to celebrate with this logo is a good question.

Then again, what do eggs have to do with Easter?

TNR on Heller

It's about what you'd expect from a left leaning rag, but then it gets worse, much worse:

The big change, rather, is a spiritual one. Washington has been the American jurisdiction most willing to dream of a gun-free society. For Washington, a Second Amendment that means something would end an existing experiment. It would impose a national norm on a dissenting local political culture. I'd be more sentimental about the end of that experiment if its results over three decades had been more encouraging. Still, whenever a right goes from a norm to a matter of actionable law--something the courts make sure "shall not be infringed"--it does so at some cost to popular sovereignty, a cost that Washington residents seem fated in this instance to bear. [emphasis added]

Wow. I guess a right that "shall not be infringed" is cool when it's just a norm, just part of a political culture, of which others can dissent from. But when you give meaning to the "shall not be infringed" part, suddenly the American spirit, American democracy, dies a little.

Maybe I read too much into it, but who would have thought that being unable to opt out of the Constitution, excuse me, the norm, would be such a freakin tragedy?

Vegetarian vs. Instinct

I'm an avid meat eater, I'll eat just about any kind of meat offered... in fact, I think steak is my favorite food. And when I saw this, via Hot Air, I almost laughed in disbelief.

...experience tells me that meat-eaters will argue to the death (literally) that eating meat has no health risks.

The interesting point, to me, is why so-called natural meat eaters feel the need to disguise their food by cutting it into steaks, cooking it, and covering it with barbecue sauce. If eating meat is natural, you would expect it to make you hungry in its natural condition. Looking at a cow should make you salivate when you are hungry.

I think if we humans were devolved to a state lacking our advanced cognizance, compared to say most animals, I seriously doubt any of us would reject cooked meat; I'll go so far as to say we would probably prefer it over any other food. While I understand eating too much red meat can be bad for one's health, I never understood why the vegetarian's argument must take the result from the extreme and apply it to normal conditions.

Nonetheless, I think the carnivore in us today is completely natural, or instinctive. I have to agree with this comment:

A plant does not have to be chased and brought down, thus at any given time a plant is in its ready-to-eat form, triggering your primal eating instincts.

With an animal on the hoof, there remains work to be done, and your primal instincts understand it as such. There is still a strong instinct in humans to chase and bring down a running animal. I would offer the popularity of target shooting, or even sports such as football which involve chasing, as evidence. When I see a pigeon fly or a deer bolt and bound away, I must admit that a part of me wants to chase it.

And yes, a slaughtered side of beef, even in whole form, does make me salivate. Once the game has been brought down, it's time to eat.

Mmm. Images of beef & venison... Is it lunch time yet?

So much for that Wilsonian Foreign Policy

We'll go to war for human rights, but we won't not go to the Olympics for them...

China's crackdown in Tibet will not cause President Bush to cancel his planned trip to the Beijing Olympics, the White House said Thursday.

At the same time, the administration interceded on behalf of Tibetan protesters and requested a firsthand look at how Chinese police were dealing with them.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi Wednesday night for about 20 minutes, urging restraint and also Chinese talks with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetans' spiritual leader.

Yeah it's just Tibet... But if this were happening over Taiwan, we'd be singing a different tune. Unfortunately, I think even that hypothetical will change in the next presidency. It's seems to be increasingly the case, according to the behavior of leading businesses and politicians, that what is good for China is good for America.

Better than you...

Because a 40-minute drive is too much to ask:

Subjects to the Crown... indeed

Via Steyn at NRO, another potential Orwellian step for the British:

Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life, according to Britain's most senior police forensics expert...

'If we have a primary means of identifying people before they offend, then in the long-term the benefits of targeting younger people are extremely large,' said Pugh. 'You could argue the younger the better. Criminologists say some people will grow out of crime; others won't. We have to find who are possibly going to be the biggest threat to society.'

That that is even given serious consideration is not only revolting, but even shows just how big of a difference there is between two very similar cultures at valuing liberty. And I look at the relative success heretofore in Iraq, in awe.

Audio of oral argument: D.C. vs. Heller

I missed a lot of it, so I'm trying to catch up with this low quality C-Span rebroadcast (RealPlayer req'd).

Transcript here.

Update: Say Uncle has some thoughts.
ScotusBlog has more.

Heh. 'Wow' is right.

I wasn't impressed. Gura seemed too ready to concede vital points. It's like he didn't do his homework on what is and what is not reasonable as far as restrictions. It's like he's unwilling to offer any objective standard of reasonable restrictions on arms except in this case, and machine guns. He had no good answer to the question by one of the Justices asking if 'we can say the Second Amendment means shall not be unreasonably infringed?'

Countertop was there... and he is damn optimistic. So am I, but that's a lot of optimism.

I have no doubt the Court will find the D.C. gun ban unconstitutional, little doubt that regulations concerning the right to arms will be subject to strict scrutiny, but I worry about what the Court will have to say about reasonable restrictions. And I'm still a bit skeptical about the incorporation of the 2nd Amendment. Without the right to arms being tied into the 14th Amendment, all we have is a federal win, which would do little to deter states from enacting gun bans. Then again, I don't see why it shouldn't be incorporated, if not already, as militias are state entities.

I'll have more later.

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That's really somethin

Look who's being a Maverick.

What possible reason does the sole nay sayer have to not condemn rocket attacks against civilians? I'm sure there's some nuance I'm missing. And 434 others too.

Great day for blogging

A busy news day...

The NYC Times Square bombing... Obama and Hillary dueling it out... talk of rioting the Democratic national convention should Hillary "win"...

The list goes on and on today.

Unfortunately I am still pressed for time; I'm just wishing I wasn't right now.

Quote of the Week

[J]ournalists have been smearing the military for 60-plus years, but the overwhelming majority of them support the troops. Or so I'm told.

Via Instapundit

That's nice...

Call a councilwoman to get the police to do their job... in an emergency.

Beck, Stossel on Gun Control

A few days old, but it's good to see this stuff on national news. Come to think of it, how often has Bill O'Reilly touched on this subject? I don't recall him ever talking about it (though I don't really watch him anymore). And this is like the third* time Glenn's talked about it on his show:



*Correction --this is the umpteenth time Glenn has talked about gun rights, as a simple Youtube search reveals.

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New media: let's get to work!
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