Did an Anti-Censorship Organization Censor News of the Jeremiah Munsen Petition?

By Nicholas Stix

It sure looks that way. Checking Google minutes ago for new Web sites and blogs that posted news of the Free Jeremiah Munsen petition, I came across two entries at Index on Censorship, page 560, “Trademark troubles,” which was originally posted on August 28, and page 598, “Wilders and eleven others indicted in Jordan,” which was posted on September 11.

In both cases, the link referred to my WEBCommentary version of the column/petition, which had only gone up today.

1. Index on Censorship » Trademark troubles
Free Jeremiah Munsen - WEBCommentary • Opinion: Open books, open minds - San Jose Mercury News • MALKIN: Book ban myopia - Washington Times ...
www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=560 - 35k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

2. Index on Censorship » Wilders and eleven others indicted in Jordan
Readers obsessed with anti-Islam video - News & Observer • Free Jeremiah Munsen - WEBCommentary • Opinion: Open books, open minds - San Jose Mercury News ...
www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=598 - 31k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

That means the Munsen link had likely just been posted to Index on Censorship’s main page, and then, just as quickly, and doubtless for purposes of political censorship, deleted.

Like most of us, “anti-censorship” organizations like Index on Censorship are adamantly opposed to censorship, when it is their ideas and allies being censored, and exuberantly support censorship, when it means silencing ideas and people they oppose.

Please take this opportunity to sign the petition calling on President Bush to pardon Jeremiah Munsen, and to tell your family and friends what Index on Censorship doesn’t want them to know about.