From The Week, Feb. 12, by Damon Linker–who is against the government putting restrictions on free speech, but can’t help seeing a disturbing trend in that direction (http://theweek.com/articles/753274/america-having-second-thoughts-about-free-speech).
Who can deny it? But to his argument I would like to add the observation that the proposed limitations on speech are mostly coming at us from the Hard Left/Democrat Party–while they themselves enjoy absolute freedom to say and publish anything they want, no matter how wrong, how vicious, how inane, how jejune, how childish, how spiteful, or how mean-spirited it might be.
We Christians and our friends are expected to just suck it up, yum yum, when we hear collidge prefessers and other pinheads declare that everything we hold dear and sacred is evil and stupid, white people are responsible for all the ills of the world and must be punished for it, every “value” in play before 1990 is wrong and must be erased along with the people who hold to them, America is a racist sexist stinking country and must be punished, only black lives matter, yours don’t–and on and on and on, no end to it. The past eight years have been especially trying.
Democrats, with a straight face, propose that people be “investigated” for the Crime of Climate Change Denial. What would they say if Republican Senators huddled with a Republican attorney general and discussed RICO sanctions against persons who had committed the Crime of Climate Change Affirmation–and made that a plank in their national party platform? Think they’d be upset? Think they’d invoke their First Amendment rights?
We are expected to listen to them, or at least not try to shut them down. Let’s make that a two-way street, shall we? See, we already have a frightfully good idea of what government restrictions on free speech would look like. The Democrats and their colleges have shown it to us.
A lot of this problem would go away if the government would stop funding universities. And we would be a better country for it.
Society, at least in this country, is being hoodwinked. What a racket! Erect buildings, call them universities and colleges, make students and parents take out excessive loans to attend these places of ‘higher learning’ and don’t ever tell them they’re really attending Indoctrination Centers – and footing the bill to be filled with all that garbage! Keep ’em broke and stupid.
Rep Nunes has had an epiphany since his committee has put out the four page memo exposing the Obama Administration of spying on Donald Trump. He has realized whatever the Left is accusing you of is what they are actually guilty of. It is pure Saul Alinsky politics (which Hillary Clinton did her dissertation on).
Lib’s the name, projection’s the game.
Very true. This is sedition, plain and simple.