by DAN CALLOWAY
Posted September 24, 2009; The Chronicler’s Web

WEAVERVILLE, NC -- As a follow on article to a previous one we posted on the Iranian Goverment’s decision to terminate the Internet connectivity of its citizens, here is a video that reports the Iranian government is now seriously considering imposing the death penalty on anyone who posts offensive blogs in its country.

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Aide Resigns Over Facebook Posts on Harvard Arrest

By Sewell Chan

Updated, 10:15 a.m. | The arrest of the Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. on a disorderly conduct charge — later dropped — has prompted adiscussion about race and policing in America, particularly after President Obama weighed in (and later backed away from initial remarks) on the episode.

The ramifications have reached far beyond Cambridge, Mass., and Washington. On Monday, a young aide to a New York City politician resigned after posting comments on her Facebook page about the controversy.

The aide, Lee Landor, who had been the deputy press secretary to the Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer, since May, posted comments on her Facebook page criticizing Mr. Gates and the president, whom she referred to at one point as “O-dumb-a.” (more…)

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