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    Claremont University debacle

    www.claremontgenocideuniversity.com
    http://www.ClaremontGenocideUniversity.com/


    YouTube Restores Musurlian's TV News
    Story on Turkish Consul After Protests
    CLAREMONT, CA - All independent journalist Peter Musurlian wanted to do on
    June 10 was videotape Turkish Consul General Hakan Tekin's lecture at
    Claremont Graduate University and produce a news story for Horizon Armenian TV, as
    well as post the story on YouTube. Musurlian did both.
    Then Claremont Graduate University hired a slick Santa Monica entertainment
    attorney, Paul Silvio Berra, to make a "friendly" call to Musurlian 13 days
    later.
    Musurlian was given "a couple of hours" before the attorney would contact
    YouTube to claim the video was posted illegally or, as Berra put it, "you had no
    authority to publish it."
    "I was intimidated," said Musurlian. "I didn't take it lightly that a
    high-priced lawyer, who has represented celebrities like Cameron Diaz and Lou Rawls,
    was hired by officials at a university -- with unlimited spending power -- to
    make my life miserable. I had no idea to what lengths Claremont Graduate
    University would go to jerk-around a little guy exercising his First Amendment
    Rights."
    "Claremont officials had enough appreciation for Free Speech to allow an
    Armenian-Genocide denier to speak, as an honored guest, at their university. But,
    when it came to news coverage of the event, which is protected by the Untied
    States Constitution, they seemingly concocted a reason to squash free speech.
    I can only assume the phone call from a lawyer was a not-too-subtle effort to
    shut me up," Musurlian added.
    The video was deleted by YouTube on June 25. Musurlian appealed. On July 10,
    realizing Claremont Graduate University's claim was baseless, YouTube restored
    the video to Musurlian's YouTube account: 301AD.
    In the interim, Musurlian uploaded to YouTube, a censored version of the
    Turkish story, abiding by the inexplicable demands of Claremont's attorney, who
    wanted Musurlian to "blur the faces of students." It would be hard to imagine
    CNN or Fox News being ordered by Claremont officials -- hiding behind an
    attorney -- to censor a news story.
    The end result of Claremont's ill-advised and boneheaded attempt at
    censorship and intimidation, is that both stories are now available on YouTube. In
    addition, Musurlian has created website,
    http://www.ClaremontGenocideUniversity.com/, which, in its first 20 days, registered more than 5,000 hits.
    General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”
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  • #2
    Makes you start to think

    How much influence does Turkey actually have if they can do this?

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Pedro Xaramillo View Post
      How much influence does Turkey actually have if they can do this?
      They have a lot of influence, however in this situation I think it was not so much Turkey's influence as it was CGU's weakness...

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      • #4
        Just wondering Hovik

        As in Joseph's post with the Holdwater's racist site he named some people who seemingly have alot of money and thereby influence :

        Murad "Holdwater" Gumen, a Turkish-American Animator
        Yuksel Oktay, a Turkish-American energy consultant and power plant designer

        Its sad when guys like these have to prove their "manhood" by attacking a university student making a video on YouTube.
        I mean Gumen spends most of his day xxxxting on Armenians on his website and Yuksel Oktay wants a xxxxing near Neo Nazi organisation against Armenians. Its kinda sad, don't they have anything better to do with their lives.

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