TO: Will Collier
RE: More Than Ridiculous

"Pretty lame, even for Clear Channel, and filing criminal charges is beyond ridiculous." -- Will Collier

This is a page torn straight from CAIR's playbook.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[Maybe Joseph Farrah is right after all.]

TO: Will Collier
RE: Additionally

"...insisting it was about the "honor of their culture," Mr. Tapia and Mr. Carias went ahead and filed the criminal charge..." -- Larry Wachs, as cited by Will Collier

This strikes me as "Viva la Raza!", stuff. Racism in its purest form.

The next question is, does their 'culture' support 'honor killings'? Will we see signs like those waved about in London last Summer; "Kill those who insult la Raza"?

As for the idea that recording someone who is insulting you is an 'invasion of privacy', I did that once myself, via my answering service.

When I played the message back to the management of the service, they were reaching for the phone to call the police on the guy doing the insulting.

Thinks seem to have changed a tad since that day.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[The one who starts casting insults first loses the argument.]

Filing criminal charges? That just sounds ridiculous and an abuse of the legal system.

The 21st century tantrum: You hurt my feelings, I'm going to sue. Whaaaa!

It's a stupid thing to sue over, and Clear Channel are a bunch of spineless bastards, but I don't think anyone's First Amendment rights are being suppressed.

Only the State can do that, since the First Amendment only applies to government - Clear Channel has no obligation to let anyone say anything as far as that goes.

(And no, the civil complaint doesn't count as suppression either, since its existence doesn't prevent them speaking, and if they actually did commit a harassment tort, that's not protected speech.

As they didn't, in any reasonable analysis from the available evidence, the complaint should get thrown out rapidly enough.)

SIGIVALD, you sir are incorrect. Because the criminal case is before the FULTON COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT, the STATE is suppressing the First Amendment.

Once again the whining of a couple will affect the masses. I am so dissapointed with Clear Channel for letting this non-issue reach this seamingly irreconsilable level. What a loss of a talented, entertaining, class act morning radio show. What's next The Billy Bob morning show again or some other syndicated show because we can't seem to find quality local talent? Argh! I guess it's back to NPR's Morning Edition.

You could always get Sirius and listen to Stern on the drive in and catch a different segment on the afternoon replay. Besides, Larry and Eric's show, which I listened to for years, was just a poor immitation of Stern's, right down to the making fun of the manager and on-air berating of the staff.

I understand that in some jurisdictions it is a crime to record someone without their permission. Not sure if it only applies to phone conversations or not. That may be how they got in trouble. It's silly but by doing so they may have exposed their employer to a lawsuit. So I can see why CC may not like it.

In Georgia, any party to a communication can record it. In this situation, they knew Larry was there in the bathroom and they were directing insults to him, as such he was a party to the communication and can record it. Also, the eavesdropping statute only applies to private conversations in a private place. This conversation was in a public restroom and was not private because it was directed toward Larry.

Not a fan of the Regulars, but this was no crime.

Censorship is on the rise. Already the US gov't detains peaceful demonstrators, bans books like "America Deceived" from Amazon and fires 21-year tenured, BYU physics professor Steven Jones because he proved explosives, thermite in particular, took down the WTC buildings. This case is just the latest in curtailing Free Speech.
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Final link (before Google Books caves to pressure and drops the title):
America Deceived (book)

Oh, great, the indymedia types are back.

Here's a free clue, Mr. '5th of November': the right to say whatever you like does not mean we are required to take you seriously.

Unfortunately, it appears TRG and Clear Channel have been trumped by the race card.

The Regular Guys and station management likely cleared the legal aspects of this bit, which is aptly described above by Gnat. Not knowing the specifics of Georgia law, if a party is able to record what's directed at them (conversation and personal insults) and in a public location, then this will boil over, up, down and straight into a new contract at a satellite channel. People are sick of this political correct crap that's run amok. Firing people and taking it outside the office is wrong. Devoting media coverage to this type of thing is discouraging. It enables minority acts to further rape the system and cry victim.

It's ironic that these two Viva announcers were asking listeners to skip work, skip school and support the concept of illegal infestation. But now they want protection from the courts. Are these two even legal or can they be deported?

As an Atlantan living in the Philippines, I can only pray that Larry and Eric move to Sirius soon. I love my Howard internet stream. Gimme some Regular guys.. yeah c'mon!

from Manila with love.