Two weeks ago on Sunday, August 6th, the Senate of Jordan endorsed the proposal to pass a new cybercrime law that criminalize certain forms of online speech. The King of Jordan Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein then officially signed-off on it the following weekend.

According to Roya News, a Jordanian news outlet, reported some of the details of the new cybercrime law:


The revisions made by the Senate to Articles 15, 16, and 17 were endorsed.

Within these three articles, the prescribed penalties include imprisonment, fines, or a combination of both. Notably, the fine stipulated in Article 16 has been decreased.

Article 15 now reads as follows:

(A) Individuals intentionally propagating false news will face a minimum of three months’ imprisonment, a fine ranging from JD 5,000 to JD 20,000, or both penalties.

(B) Offenses outlined in Paragraph (A) will be subject to prosecution by the Public Prosecution, eliminating the necessity of filing a complaint or asserting a personal claim, especially if the false news concerns a state authority, official entity, or public administration.

Furthermore, the Lower House of Parliament has revised the fines associated with Article 16. This article pertains to actions causing “reputation damage” online and results in imprisonment for no less than three months, or a fine ranging from JD 5,000 to JD 20,000, or both penalties.

Amidst these changes, Article 17 has also been ratified. Following its modification, this article now dictates that intentional utilization of the internet to disseminate content aiming to incite conflict or undermine “national unity” will incur a sentence of 1-3 years’ imprisonment, a fine ranging from JD 5,000 to JD 20,000, or both penalties.


A week later the Associated Press noted that some of these infractions include speech comments “promoting, instigating, aiding, or inciting immorality,” demonstrating ”contempt for religion” or “undermining national unity.” It further chastises individuals who post names or pictures of police officers online, plus outlawing particular methods of maintaining online anonymity.

The AP added: ‘A coalition of 14 human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, has called the law “draconian.” The groups say “vague provisions open the door for Jordan’s executive branch to punish individuals for exercising their right to freedom of expression, forcing the judges to convict citizens in most cases.”’


AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[25] How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? [26] Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

Job 6:25-26

I mention this just to note that more and more nations, big and small, continue to crackdown on what people can say. Overall, our time on the internet is dwindling.


[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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  • Jordan is Edom: the descendants of Esau. Genesis & Numbers give the background history, & the Lord delayed judgment.

    Jeremiah 49:7-22 speaks to the judgment of Edom. Ezekiel 25:12-17. The context of Joel 3, verse 19 relating to Edom. The little one chapter book of Obadiah is all about the Lord’s indignation with, & judgment of, Edom, with hints of their perhaps being involved in some space program like Musk’s in verse 4, speaking of making their nest among the stars: given the 4 and reference to stars, this could be relating to the fallen angelic. Verse 7 speaks of men confederate with them betraying them to their destruction, even as they let down Israel. The Lord refers to how Edom enriched themselves, even entering into Jerusalem in the day of their calamity in the days of Babylon, and the 400 years of strife during the intertestamental period which saw the Edomite Herod sitting on the throne of Judea, confederate with Rome. Idumean being the Greek transliteration of Edom. Malachi 1:2-5, and with verse 4 summing up the Lord’s anger with Edom: Malachi 1:4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever. With regard to the hints of Edom with the ‘stars’, Malachi also mentions ‘dragons of the wilderness’ in connection with them.

    Petra is from the time of Edom’s prosperity, and for centuries they dominated trade in the Middle East & were the terminus of the Silk Road trade, active even in the times of the crusaders. There are those who believe that Petra was the actual city of Mohammed & cradle of Islam, due to the geological features, spring zam-zam etc…..while the water of Mecca is awful. The move to Mecca coming of the civil war& struggle for power & control at the death of Mohammed, the uncle seizing control.

    There is also the Arab fascination with dragons in a positive light, Edom being like in type and the Arab being of Shem like the Jews. In their ‘smart city’ of Noem, the Saudi have planned flying shuttles which they call, & make to appear as, ‘dragons’. Like the SpaceX Dragon of the U.S., too, which may make the U.S. politically at least, to be part of the confederacy that betrays Jordan/Edom in the end.

    It’s amazing to see the fulfillment of these things working out.

    • Verse 4 is interesting. Islam is all about their fake outer space. THe Kaaba is Saturn or Satan. Mohammed is their moon god according to Quran although they deny it & call him prophet.

      • With all due respect: The Kaaba is a six-sided black cube, a vessel, with a stone inside shaped like feminine privy parts & which fell down from heaven….the feminine counter to the privy member worshipping Islamic craft, & that stone being just like the image associated with the ‘goddess’, Diana of the Ephesians, supposedly fallen down from Jupiter in Acts 19 (compare with Revelation 19 and Deuteronomy 32, though we can’t say authoritatively just yet how that will all play out). This is similar to the Mormon type imagined ‘Mother Eve’ & their very own filthy Isis/Horus/Set thing, common to ALL craft, and those imagining they are ‘becoming gods’ (Genesis 3).

        Another ‘type’ of the thing is the ‘pillar’ or ‘towers’ as the pagans mirror-reverse all the biblical types. It featured large in Masonic & Craft films like ‘2001 Space Odysey’ with the Russian Velikovsky (I believe it was) & such teaching similar things. Four is the number of spiritual things, the spiritual realm, and the occult reverses it into their ‘four points’, ‘four towers’, ‘four dragons’, ‘four corners’ …the compass rose & sub rosa stuff & ‘secrets’.

        Also the same thing as the above, so below blasphemy they inserted right into Matthew 6 & what they call ‘the Lord’s prayer’ in The Mess-Age perver$ion; and as the crosspoint ritual space of the idol houses & every ‘church’ building of Romish tradition & design carrying the mysteries forward & with all the pagan gods simply transformed in to ‘saint’s to be prayed to for various favors & indulgences, even as big mama, and the vicarious papa antichrist placeholder who don’t care as long as all the cronies let big mama be the head & ride the thing.

        All the sacramental ‘rituals’ have to take place there at the ‘crosspoint’ for a reason, & I truly believe all the misdirecting stuff is lying about the how’s and why’s of that (they do the same with the four-sided, square based pyramids & such)….are just that: misdirection. The truth about it is found in God’s word.

        The Queen of Heaven lying signs & wonders, Fatima & such relate to that filthy imagery, too…..and probably the Shroud of Turin will be a convincing lying sign & wonder to many, maybe even attempting to clone through the thing, though the double witness of Lazarus’ graveclothes in John 11:44 (check out THOSE numbers!) and of Christ’s in John 20:7 (also interesting numbers) refute that, as their graveclothes were of two pieces, not one, & with a separate napkin over the face: whatever that thing is, it’s NOT the graveclothes of the Lord.

        The second heaven, is part of the firmament, the closed firmament, & is of matter spread out as a curtain, discussed not just in Genesis, but also in the Psalms & with Job & his friends having awareness of it, as well as Paul who was caught up to the third heaven. There is also the ‘open firmament’ (biblical term, look it up) where the birds fly, our weather & water cycle operate etc. Genesis & Job KJB. The ‘glass spheres’ or ‘crystal spheres’ were of Romish & alchemical invention, the Bible speaks of the glassy sea beneath the throne of God.

        The second heaven ends at the third heaven where the Lord, his throne & the mercy seat are…..could the 4th spiritual realm also figure in there, that place where darkness is as light & there is no order (Job 10….those men were miserable comforters, but they knew some things, remembering back to Babel in Genesis 11 & overlapping the lives of Shem, Ham & Japheth as Abraham’s life did)?

        Perhaps. What they call ‘quantum’ evidencing that. In that deadly, airless darkness & great expanse that we know of are the ‘stars’ and planets, those material & those heavenly & spiritual….as the living ‘chariots’ and cherub things are (Ezekiel 1-10 KJB), some fallen, some not. And just about everything they expect their ‘probes’ to find, they’ve been wrong about.

        The deep may relate to some of that.

        Just like the four living beasts, there are physical & spiritual aspects, & they are also made ‘ministers of fire’ (Hebrews 1:7)….which surround & carry/support the throne of God in Revelation, some comparing with Ezekiel 1-10 & 28; Isaiah 14, & Revelation 4&5 believing that Satan was the fifth (significant number), before iniquity was found in him. (Earth is the third planet from the sun, significant Godhead number & center of all things relating to the first & second Adam….while Jupiter/Jove is associated with Satan & the fifth planet; Saturn the sixth. There’s something about water & the blood, that must be dealt with, transformed, at the resurrection/catching away….which doesn’t happen all at once, those martyrs beneath the throne in Revelation 20:4 resurrected later. No ‘come up hither’ necessary.

        Though the spiritual ‘horses’ and ‘chariots’ of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of thousands (Psalm 68…and how’s THAT for an ‘alien invasion’?? Apparently they’re not all cherubs? Read closely & you find that Satan only has access to the gate of heaven, and that he will get the boot & lose even that at the time of Revelation 12 KJB…… Perhaps Saturn, the sixth, the number of man & beast, is of that son of perdition, Judas, marked by his receiving the ‘sop’, and who ‘went to his own place’. John 17:12, Acts 1:25 KJB.

        ….and, yes, Saturn is associated with some of that by the pagans, & also Jupiter by the astrologers & Chaldean Babylonish types. Don’t let them mock & lead you by the nose with Tolkien’s flat earth stuff & the later rehash. The only ‘ice wall’ ever was like that post-Flood of Noah of the North American scablands which some of the native Americans remember in their legends: along with the ‘thunderbirds’ and fiery flying serpents……and maybe the ‘glassy sea’ where the original Rahab was: strange things happen at absolute zero: like time standing still.

        Allah is NOT the moon god, that was Chick & military intel misleading for the propaganda war effort, whether done knowingly or not, & too easily swallowed after the dumbing down & demoralization: but Mohammed’s ‘monotheistic/monistic & karmic ‘God’ was cobbled together out of three feminine Arabic deities, & I believe a 4th male, which were favored deities worshipped by Mohammed’s tribe, I believe the Quraish, & that was proven archaeologically by a lot of the things ISIS was busy blowing up for them across northern Africa & up into the Middle East: there were many ancient inscriptions along the old Arabic & Edomite trade routes.

        The Quran is an embarrassment of cobbled together Jewish & Romish & mystical ‘Desert Fathers’ and gnostic stuff….and its accuracy is way off: confusing, for instance, Miriam, the sister of Moses with Mary of Nazareth….or at the least making them contemporaries. If there was any truth to the description of the original Mecca and springs of zam-zam….they match Petra much better than Mecca where the water is foul. But that isn’t real important biblically…..just an Islamic embarrassment they try to keep under wraps in classical secret society, mystery society fashion. THAT common spirit we can all agree on, I believe. Father of lies, god of this world, spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.

        And, of course, they make her ‘the mother of God’ as all the cults do. Also paintings, icons & relics said to be in that square Kaabah thing…which would make sense for Satan’s big counterfeit coming up.

        Allah is the same as the ‘elect’ karmic ‘God’ of the Augustinian Calvinists & all those who only come partway out of Rome & fall back. ….The three ‘goddesses’/swan thing & so forth that carried up into the central Asian & eastern Europe, & for which they killed that European writer ( I think he was Dutch) who dared to write about it. (Steve Van Nattan of Balaam’s Ass Speaks also documented these things & his material was just scrubbed from the net, so if you can find someone who was wise enough to make hard copy of that: no publisher would touch it: I wonder why?)

        Remember your Russian ballet & fairy tale conditioning, Odile & Odette and all of that garbage, by which they carried a lot of that stuff forward & up through time….but the King James Bible lays it all bare.

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