It’s Time To Close Out Political Week
Well, I’ve taken about all I can this election year. So, I’ll close out political week with a flurry of posts on a variety of issues for those with inquiring minds and plenty of time to peruse. I’ve done the footwork, so now all you need to do is click and enjoy. Let’s begin with this one…
Forget all that babble from Democrats and the automatons on the paleo-press about violence and hate at the McCain-Palin rallies. The real scary stuff is happening in neighborhoods across the land. Here we find progressives in New York expressing their tolerance during a recent march:
Meanwhile, in Portland there are some neo-hippies spreading their brand of peace, love and understanding through a creative use of fossil fuels:
Leslie Brockette Leudtke, 23, and Kevin Carl Robinson, 23, were held on at least eight felony charges of making a destructive device and possession of a destructive device. Leudtke also was charged with reckless burning.
Michael Barone sounds a warning about the potential for mischief if these jackboot thugs become emboldened when Obama sweeps to power in January ‘09. There’s a chill wind blowing across the land of the free:
That’s what Obama supporters, alerted by campaign e-mails, did when conservative Stanley Kurtz appeared on Milt Rosenberg’s WGN radio program in Chicago. Mr. Kurtz had been researching Mr. Obama’s relationship with unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers in Chicago Annenberg Challenge papers in the Richard J. Daley Library in Chicago - papers that were closed off to him for some days, apparently at the behest of Obama supporters.
Obama fans jammed WGN’s phone lines and sent in hundreds of protest e-mails. The message was clear to anyone who would follow Mr. Rosenberg’s example. We will make trouble for you if you let anyone make the case against The One…
These attempts to shut down political speech have become routine for liberals. Congressional Democrats sought to reimpose the “fairness doctrine” on broadcasters, which until it was repealed in the 1980s required equal time for different points of view. The motive was plain: to shut down the one conservative-leaning communications medium, talk radio…
Then there’s the Democrats’ “card check” legislation that would abolish secret ballot elections in determining whether employees are represented by unions. The unions’ strategy is obvious: Send a few thugs over to employees’ homes - we know where you live - and get them to sign cards that will trigger a union victory without giving employers a chance to be heard…
Today’s liberals seem to be taking their marching orders from other quarters. Specifically, from the college and university campuses where administrators, armed with speech codes, have for years been disciplining and subjecting to sensitivity training any students who dare to utter thoughts that liberals find offensive. The campuses that once prided themselves as zones of free expression are now the least free part of our society.
Obama supporters who found the campuses congenial and Mr. Obama himself, who has chosen to live all his adult life in university communities, seem to find it entirely natural to suppress speech they don’t like and seem utterly oblivious to claims this violates the letter and spirit of the First Amendment. In this campaign, we have seen the coming of the Obama thugocracy, suppressing free speech, and we may see its flourishing in the four or eight years ahead.
October 13th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Well, I was able to get through 2:08 of that youtube video when I shut it off and had enough. I’ve seen this first hand.
As you know, I’m neither voting for Obama or McCain. Don’t like either of them. But I’ll tell you one thing, the same people who say “we need to teach tolerance” and “we need more diversity” are the least tolerant people out there. Go figure.
I started my blog off in May ‘05 making fun of political correctness. This video is exactly why. Do they really want tolerance, or someone to goosestep with them?
October 13th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
The campuses that once prided themselves as zones of free expression are now the least free part of our society.
Yes, I’ve seen this first hand. Starting seeing this in the 90s.