Posted on 03/21/2018 5:38:35 AM PDT by Scooter100
I am posting this because I was completely taken aback by an ex-professor friend of mine, (a HISTORY professor at that!!) who actually suggested that a public figure, with whom he didn't agree, be silenced. That's right, SILENCED, simply for not agreeing with his particular worldview. Astounding.
Good Lord, what happened to the free expression of ideas, freedom of speech? To freely express ideas, no matter how reppellant, is the cornerstone of a free society. Once we venture down the road of censoring and silencing, we could be finished in short order.
It only took Germany, and Hitler's National Socialist German Workers' (NAZI) Party, 22 years to go from a classical democracy, to a fascist state hell-bent on the mass genocide of millions.
That's right, 22 years. If the perverted sentiment of my esteemed professor friend is commonly held in today's society, we are well on our way to perdition. I pray not. And dear professor, smarten up and THINK before you utter such unmitigated garbage. If that's what you were teaching your students, we need a recall to instill in them what democracy and freedom and freedom of speech really means.
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CLASSICAL LIBERALISM:
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
PROGRESSIVISM, phase 1:
“I disapprove of what you say, and I will publicly harass you, lobby to have you silenced, demand you be fined and/or fired from your job, place you under 24/7 surveillance, and record all aspects of your life.”
PROGRESSIVISM, phase 2:
“I disapprove of what you say, and I will actively hinder your work, censor and change your words, omit you from participating, filter and block your media, and organize violent protests where you will be threatened, shouted down, roughed up, and Mace sprayed in your eyes.“
FASCISM, phase 1:
“I disapprove of what you say, and I will make your words illegal, burn your books, shut down your media, ban your public engagements, revoke your passport, restrict your movements, and pay an army of thugs to beat you up, rape your women, and destroy your property (if I decide you can own any).”
FASCISM, phase 2 (the march to a final solution):
“I disapprove of what you say, and you:
a. Are sentenced to 25 years in prison and forced into hard labour.
b. Disappear one night, and are found in a park with two holes in your head.
c. Are sentenced to death in a rigged show trial and hanged for treason.
d. Are lined up with a dozen others and shot to death by drunk soldiers.
e. Mass-murdered by the thousands, tossed into long trenches hidden in the woods, and covered up with bulldozers.
Well did you tell him? He is obviously the one you need to say this to.
You should have told her to move BACK to where she came from (probably California), and to take her idiotic political ideals with her !
I have posted this before in another thread, so please bear with me.
If President Trump were really and truly the Fascist Hitler the Left purports him to be,
There would have been a big “Night of the Long Knives” and they would all be DEAD.
But...the fact remains that they are NOT dead, and seem to have no fear whatsoever when it comes to flapping their jaws about the President.
The opening paragraph of Barbara Tuchman’s “Guns of August”..........
Five years later they were machine-gunning each other, killing 10,000 men a day, for over four years.
I was just back from a year of a dubious air war when I read
“Guns of August”....
It occurred to me we humans should stop doing this as it never accomplishes a thing, just recycles to the next conflict.
I don’t have an answer.....
Written with The Great War only one year in the rear-view mirror:
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As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
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