Tag: liberals vs. free speech

Ohio Passes Campus Free Speech Act

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The Ohio Senate has unanimously approved a law to permit free speech at colleges and universities and do away with “free speech zones” (https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ohio-state-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-campus-free-speech-bill-professors-oppose-effort).

A “free speech zone” is a tiny piece of the campus where they allow some semblance of free speech, while restricting it everywhere else.

Opposed to the bell was [trumpet fanfare]… the American Assn. of University Professors. Speech has just got to be restricted at a university, these vegetables–oops, sorry, I mean “intellectuals”–argued… because allowing a “controversial” speaker to speak–they mean a speaker who’s not a leftid–might cause “massive disruptions” that kan’t be kontrolled by the kampus kops.

Gee. Doesn’t that give Far Left Crazy total veto power over who’s allowed to speak? All they have to do is threaten a disruption, and the speaker’s not allowed.

Let the record show that the American Assn. of University Professors is opposed to free speech on campus.

Dudes! Under the Constitution–you know: the law of the land–there’s only one free speech zone in America. It runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from Canada to Mexico.

Defund the colleges and universities. They don’t deserve public money, and they certainly don’t earn it.

Cal State Loses Censorship Lawsuit

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They don’t have any trouble getting university funding.

Can a looniversity dole out funds from student fees, paid by all students, to “gay” student groups while withholding funds from a pro-life student group?

No way, said the judge. And so, after a three-year legal battle, Cal State San Marcos had to pay a $240,000 settlement to Students For Life (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/latest-blow-against-campus-censorship-offers-huge-win-for-pro-life-movement).

Cal State refused a request by the pro-life students for $500 to pay a speaker’s travel expenses–while at the same time forking over some $300,000 to assorted “gay” student groups. Because all students have to pay the fees which are the source of these funds, the judge ruled that the looniversity had discriminated against the pro-life students while favoring the Far Left student groups–which was tantamount, said the judge, to “compelled speech.”

Which is to say, they can’t force conservatives to pay for left-wing speakers and left-wing events while withholding the same funds from conservative speakers. All student groups ought to get their share, regardless of their politics–because the fees are paid by all.

Gee. All it took for that to happen was a thumping great lawsuit, three years of legal wrangling, and a judge’s ruling.  Is that what conservative students have to do, every time they want a speaker?

Let’s not kid ourselves. The universities’ primary concern is to promote Far Left ideology at the expense of everybody else, and to turn out a steady stream of brainwashed young leftids. Fundamentally transforming America, don’t you know–into the People’s Republic of Northern Venezuela.

It’s long past time to cut them off from public money.

My Newswithviews Column,Feb. 6 (‘A Cornucopia of Tyranny’)

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There’s no excuse for not knowing what Democrats have in store for us, if they ever get back in power. They’ve made it quite clear.

A Cornucopia of Tyranny

See, you won’t be allowed to disbelieve in The Climate Crisis, or transgender, or a lot of other things, anymore. At least, you certainly won’t be allowed to say you disbelieve in it.

If liberals ever discover how to get inside your brain and weed out all Bad Thoughts, they’ll do it in a New York minute.

Think of It as Northern Venezuela

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One of these is Gov. Northam in his college days. We still don’t know which one.

(Thanks to Susan for the nooze tip)

As long as they’re trying to erase the Second Amendment, Virginia’s new Democrat commissars have decided to have a go at the First Amendment, too. Which is why we need our right to bear arms…

A bill in the Michael-Bloomberg-bought-and-paid-for Virginia legislsature, HB1627, would make it a Class 1 misdemeanor, punishable by arrest and fine, to criticize the state government (https://nationalfile.com/virginia-dems-introduce-anti-free-speech-legislation-to-make-criticizing-them-illegal/?fbclid=IwAR3huQANFuwws2-W-opTRBYQO4OXycVdih2dCmg5CYgfM2Kh7l7QVUtsH9U).

The words actually used here are “threats and harassment of certain officials,” and, particularly, “harassment by computer.” The terms “threats” and “harassment” are left completely undefined.

If you should post a remark on a blog to the effect that “Gov. Northam is a baby-killing cannibal,” this bill would give the Richmond police the authority to swoop down on you no matter where you are in the state, and arrest you.

Specifically exempted from criticism, unflattering comments in the social media, or loud raspberries would be the governor, governor-elect, lieutenant governor, lieutenant governor-elect, attorney general, attorney general-elect, a member or employee [?] of the General Assembly, a justice of the state supreme court, or a judge of the court of appeals.

That pretty much covers it, don’tcha think?

Does any Democrat acknowledge any fragment of the Bill of Rights? That this bill is riotously, flagrantly, boisterously, uproariously unconstitutional seems to have occurred to none of them.

This is the Democrat Party, folks.

Crush them in November.

Germany’s Version of ‘Free Speech’

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Cute and cuddly, happy puppies!

Some countries in the Free World aren’t as free as they ought to be. Germany springs immediately to mind. It seems they just can’t kick their old authoritarian habit.

Germany already has a harsh “hate speech” law, enacted last year. But Chancellor Angela Merkel sounds like she wants to make it even more harsh (https://townhall.com/columnists/ianhaworth/2019/12/02/angela-merkel-and-german-freedom-of-speech-n2557309). In a speech she gave last week, she said, “Expressing an opinion does not come with zero cost.”

In fact, under Germany’s hate speech law, the cost is a fine of up to 50 million euros. A small price to pay if the government is going to “oppose extreme speech.”

Free speech has to have limits, Merkel says. “Those limits begin where hatred is spread.” Not allowed to hate. “They begin where the dignity of other people is violated.”

Uh-huh. And here’s the catch: In Merkel’s little utopia, the government gets to decide what speech is “hateful” and what speech isn’t. Don’t tell me you don’t trust the government to do that.

American liberals see this and lick their chops with envy. Oh, if we could only do that here! Confound that pesky First Amendment! Dash it all, we’re already doing this on all our college campuses! Why can’t we do it everywhere?

Freedom is not something that our self-anointed big shots like us to have. That’s why we have to protect it, day in, day out. Because otherwise some shadowy characters in Facebook, with the enthusiastic support of Democrats, will censor everybody who isn’t them.

This is America, not Germany. Let’s keep it that way.

 

Let’s ‘Re-imagine’ Free Speech!

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Nope, can’t find any extremism here! Let’s check out the Kiwanis Club…

Be very afraid when any liberal starts talking about the need to “re-imagine” anything. They use the word as a euphemism for “to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate something out of all recognition.”

UC Berkeley recently had a… “reporter,” I think he calls himself, from The New Yorker give a speech there, in which he said America needs to “re-imagine its interpretation of the First Amendment” so as to forbid “fringe political speech” in the social media (https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13958). Allowing what we have always known as free speech, he said, is like allowing guests at a party to set fire to a couch–presumably indoors, although he didn’t specify that.

So… what does he call “fringe political speech”? Three guesses. I doubt I have to tell you to answer to that question.

Ah–but what about “fringe political speech” that comes from Far Left Crazy? Hold on to your hats. He says there’s simply no such thing as “extremism” among the Left.

Wow. If they gave an Oscar for bald, bodacious hypocrisy, this guy would win it, hands down. It takes one’s breath away.

Hey, out there! These people are out to wreck our republic and they need to be utterly defeated. As in put out of business, forever. The Democrat Party and its mob of kooks and Stalinist wannabes is a viper harbored in our nation’s bosom.

Let’s not re-imagine a political landscape in which a Democrat can’t even be elected dog catcher.

Let’s make it real.

Hey, Liberals! Dig My Silver Medal (2014)

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Nice medal, isn’t it?

I had just won a Global E-Book Award for my second Bell Mountain book, The Cellar Beneath the Cellar. A lefty loon on a major leftid website attacked me by name–and my sales went up.

Hey, Liberals! Dig My Silver Medal

Try as I might, I can’t remember who it was that attacked me. I think it might’ve been someone on the Huffington Post, but I could easily be wrong. I don’t read any of those sites.

I still haven’t figured out why they would even bother to smack me down. I guess it’s because even the microscopic, inconsequential opposition I provide is poison to them.

Just now my sales figures are about as low as they’ve ever been. Why does Far Left Crazy care what any of us says?

It’s as if one stray mote of freedom mars their entire landscape.

Censored Again

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Literally within seconds of my attempt to post it, Facebook censored my post, “NPC Satire Singes Democrat Doofus.” Here’s what they said–and I hope the picture of the happy puppies will enable me to slide this one past the Facebook censor.

“Your message couldn’t be sent because it includes content that other people on Facebook have reported as abusive.”

What “other people” even had time to view the post, much less report it as abusive?

Think I’d’ve gotten censored if I’d called Donald Trump a doofus? (Hint: no way!)

If any of you want to try sharing my doofus post on Facebook, please let me know if you succeed.

‘Resistant Christianity’

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This month’s Chalcedon editorial warns us: “What begins with erasing God from society and institutions must make its way to the hearts and minds of believers.”

https://chalcedon.edu/blog/resistant-christianity

It’s not that the Church, or Christ’s Kingdom, is going to fail. But we as individuals can; and history is littered with the bones of failed countries and societies.

We don’t want America winding up there, do we?

The temptation is always “Go along to get along.” And so we compromise with a Godless world. We want people to think we’re nice guys. Next thing you know, we’re attending a baby shower for a woman who’s having a baby by her “boyfriend” while still married to her husband.

Cultural compromise is giving away half the Church’s ground whenever the world demands it.

Faithfulness has to win back the ground. Has to–or America is finished.

Hat Speach it Kills!!!

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Now it “is” more Impotant then evver to Abbolitch all Hat Speach that is “done” “by” Haters!

And yiu know wye?? Becose hat speach it kills!!! We jist herd abuot stodents At “a” Collidge in Mastachoositts thay got kilt Dedd wen thay herd Hat Speach, kilt themb rihght thare “on The” Spott!!!

It terns Out that Hat Speach it is a “new” Marital Art like Joo-doh or Carroty and wen a Hater thay do it thay Can kill yiu Whith it!!!! This hear it “is” Verry Serius!!!!!!! and the ownly whay “To” Stopit is to out-Law al Hat Speach!!!

And wood yiu Beleave it??? That same Collidge, thay are trying to Bring Back that no-good stinkin Frist Amenment and aslo “Free Speach” jist so moar Minorites thay can get kilt “By” it!!!

But hear at ore Collidge thare woont be No “Freee Speach” aloud at all!!!! We are goingto “Passs” that to-nihght at our Stodent Soviet meating!! So fromb Now On “:yiu” best be Carfull watt yiu say or yiu whill Get throne out Of collidge!!! and yiu cant get no Deegree ether!! Lyke that one Prefesser ze sayed, thay auhght to Crave it On Stone “watt” yiu can Say and “watt” yiu “cant!!!!!!””

And wee whill doo it tooo as sooon as we Fynde a big “enuhgh” Stoan!!!