Author: Freedom Watch

Klayman and First Responder Forras say nothing has changed and GZ mosque would open old wounds and case must proceed to stop it (New York, New York, May 3, 2011). Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, and a former U.S. Senate candidate, today issued the following statement in the wake of Osama Bin Laden’s death: “Freedom Watch, my client Vinnie Forras, a brave First Responder who has sued the Ground Zero mosque and its Imam, and I salute the efforts of the American military to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice. These efforts were heroic! But the…

Date: April 5, 2011 Address: 71 Thomas Street, N.Y., N.Y. 10013 Time: 9:30 A.M. Courtroom 204 (New York, New York). This Tuesday, April 5, 2011, Justice Lucy Billings will hold hearings in the Ground Zero Mosque case, which was filed by Vincent Forras, a First Responder on September 11, 2001. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Mr. Forras by lawyer Larry Klayman, founder of Freedom Watch, and is a class action. It alleges that the planned mosque and its imams have ties to terrorist interests and that the project, called the Cordoba Project, represents a security threat to the…

Judicial and Freedom Watch Founder Alleges Misuse of “Social Network” In Threatening Jews with Death For Profit (Washington, D.C., March 31, 2011). Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, and a U.S. Senate candidate in 2004, today filed suit against the “founder” of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook itself for their role in furthering a radical Palestinian page called “Third Intifada,” which threatened Jews in particular with death. Mr. Klayman, who is of Jewish origin, is a prominent public interest advocate and as Chairman of Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch has pursued court cases and other…

Iran is the Key Not Libya, Iraq! Not A Happy Persian New Year! (March 21, 2011, Washington, D.C.). Today, Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch and a former U.S. Senate candidate in 2004, issued the following statement: “The United States, first under President George W. Bush and now under President Barack Obama, has blown it again. Rather than taking out the head of the snake — and the key to Middle East stability — which is the Islamic Republic of Iran, the current administration has now committed American military resources to a country of marginal importance…

U.S. President A Danger to Middle East Stability and Peace (Washington, D.C., March 15, 2011). Today, in the wake of the Saudi invasion of Bahrain, sanctioned by the Gulf Cooperation Council, Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch and an international lawyer, issued the following statement: “Yesterday, because of the failure of President Obama to confront Iran’s hegemony and expansion of its radical Islamic sphere of power in the Middle East, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, in conjunction with his Arab Gulf Cooperation Council partners, invaded Bahrain to head off an overthrow of its government by extremist Shiites…

Preceded Threats Against Rep. Peter King Over Muslim Hearings; Evidences a Pattern of Intimidation (Washington, D.C., March 10, 2011). Representative Peter King’s hearings today on “homegrown” Muslim extremism resulted in death threats against the New York Congressman, who has been courageous in his search for a candid dialogue on this issue. But King is not the only person who has sought to use legitimate legal means to address the issue of Muslim extremism and collaboration with terrorist interests in the United States. In October of last year, Vincent Forras, with the assistance of Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and…

Boehner & Co. “Bail Out” and Settle for Only Minute Cuts (Washington, D.C., February 26 2011). Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, today issued the following statement on the failure of Republicans to extract large budget cuts from the Democrats and Obama administration, instead settling for only $4 billion in exchange for a stop gap emergency bill allowing the government to stay in operation. “The past is a prologue. Fearful that President Obama and the Democrats will feed Republicans their lunch if the government is shut down — as the President Bill Clinton did with then…

Freedom Watch Advocates Quick and Decisive Action in Middle East (Washington, D.C., February 24, 2011). Today, Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch and former candidate for the U.S. Senate in Florida, issued the following statement in the wake of the crisis in the Middle East: “With the explosive upheavals in Libya, and Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Morocco and elsewhere throughout the Middle East, and the threat of even greater geo-political instability, the price of oil has skyrocketed, with no end in sight. This aftershock, exacerbated by the threat that Libyan oil, which accounts for over 2 percent…

Bush’s-Democrat’s Incompetence Not Iraq Primarily Responsible for Upheavals – Western Countries Next to See “Revolution” (Washington, D.C., February 22, 2011). Today, Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, and a former U.S. Senate candidate in Florida, issued the following statement on events in the Middle East and around the world: “In the months after the Iraq war began, when the administration of President George W. Bush failed to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as it has predicted, the government had to come up with another ‘reason’ to justify the invasion. Instead, the President then declared…

Today is President Reagan’s 100th birthday. Hail to the only real president of our lifetime and perhaps the greatest president in American history. We don’t have him on this earth anymore, but he will always be in our hearts. Let us carry on ourselves to realize his dream of a “shining city on a hill” for our beloved nation. Larry Klayman Freedom Watch www.freedomwatchusa.org