[governance] Facebook bans Gandhi quote as part of revisionist history purge

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Facebook bans Gandhi quote as part of revisionist history purge 
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com
(NaturalNews) The reports are absolutely true. Facebook suspended the 
Natural News account earlier today after we posted an historical quote 
from Mohandas Gandhi. The quote reads:

"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look 
upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." - 
Mohandas Gandhi, an Autobiography, page 446.

This historical quote was apparently too much for Facebook's censors to 
bear. They suspended our account and gave us a "final warning" that one 
more violation of their so-called "community guidelines" would result in 
our account being permanently deactivated.

They then demanded we send them a color copy of a "government issued 
identification" in order to reactivate our account. Our account was 
removed from suspension just minutes before InfoWars posted its article 
on this Facebook censorship, and the Facebook page is now functioning at:
www.Facebook.com/NaturalNews

This is a separate account from our primary Facebook account, which has 
nearly 250,000 followers at:
www.Facebook.com/HealthRanger

Logic is an enemy and history is a menace
That Facebook would choose to disable our account after we posted a 
Gandhi quote is incredibly shocking. The historical rise of oppressed 
Indian people against tyrannical British rule is apparently no longer 
allowed to be discussed on Facebook. The very IDEA of a free people 
overcoming tyrannical government rule now "violates community 
guidelines." The removal of this content is akin to online book burning 
and the destruction of history.

This post was not in any way malicious, nor encouraging violence, nor 
even describing guns or the Second Amendment. It merely reflected the 
words of one of our world's most celebrated rebel leaders who helped an 
entire nation throw off the shackles of oppression and British 
occupation. That Facebook would find this to "violate community 
guidelines" is nothing short of absolutely bewildering.

Here is the full image as originally posted on Facebook. Keep in mind 
that THIS is now considered unacceptable speech across the "Facebook 
community," where any number of people can openly call for the murder of 
the NRA president and have absolutely no action taken against them:



InfoWars.com is also now reporting that Facebook is running an 
across-the-board PURGE of pro-gun accounts. A huge number of accounts 
are all being systematically disabled or suspended, with all content 
being wiped clean.

We have entered the era of the Ministry of Truth from George Orwell's 
1984 novel. And while Facebook assaults the First Amendment in America, 
Senator Feinstein is busy assaulting the Second.

Facebook declares war on human history
What's especially alarming about all this is that Gandhi himself was of 
course a champion of resistance against tyranny. To banish quotes from 
Gandhi is much like banning quotes of freedom from Martin Luther King 
(who also openly supported concealed firearms, by the way, and who 
personally owned an entire "arsenal" of firearms).

What's next? Will Facebook ban quotes by Thomas Jefferson and George 
Washington? Any and all patriots, founding fathers and liberty lovers 
throughout history might soon be stricken from the Facebook servers, and 
any who dare to post historical quotes supporting liberty, the Bill of 
Rights, or the Second Amendment risk having their accounts terminated 
and all content deleted.

Collectivist propaganda has now reached a point where you can't even 
discuss liberty or anything out of history that supported the right to 
keep and bear arms. You are required to stay focused solely on celebrity 
gossip, sports stars, fashion distractions and tabloid garbage. Anyone 
who wishes to discuss actual American history must now go underground 
and speak softly in dimly-lit rooms, behind secret walls and drawn curtains.

The era of total oppression and collectivist mind control has fully 
arrived in America. This is not hyperbole... IT IS HERE NOW.

Memorize this quote, because it too shall soon be purged from the internet:

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood 
of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson.

Dare to post that on Facebook and you risk your account being disabled 
or deleted.

Learn more: 
http://www.naturalnews.com/038484_Gandhi_quote_Facebook_censorship.html#ixzz2GROxL9Mh

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