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'No Free Speech for Fascists' Is a Truly Terrible Idea
Reason Magazine's Hit & Run Blog ^ | August 14, 2017 | Katherine Mangu-Ward

Posted on 08/14/2017 8:53:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 08/14/2017 8:53:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

‘No Free Speech for Fascists’

Only a Fascist would say that.


2 posted on 08/14/2017 8:55:09 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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well yes, because their definition of fascist is anyone not towing the far left socialist/globalist line.
Being a private property owner is fascist to these people.


3 posted on 08/14/2017 9:01:11 PM PDT by snarkytart
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what really happened in Charlottesville is a bunch of people unhappy about bookburning southern history (some of them extremists) decided to use their constitutional right to free speech. Another group, leftists, decided anyone who disagrees with them does not have a right to speak and inflicted violence upon them.

Who is worse in this scenario? I pick the left.

4 posted on 08/14/2017 9:15:27 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (The only thing standing in the way of full blown leftist totalitarianism in America is Donald Trump)
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well yes, because their definition of fascist is anyone not towing the far left socialist/globalist line. Being a private property owner is fascist to these people.

Any disagreement with the left, no matter how large or small, is no longer accaptable, and will be punished with violence. That is how totalitarianism works and they are totalitarians.

5 posted on 08/14/2017 9:19:03 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (The only thing standing in the way of full blown leftist totalitarianism in America is Donald Trump)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The irony is that logically “No free speech for fascists” means “No free speech”.
6 posted on 08/14/2017 9:19:35 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No Free Speech for Liberal fascists!

Good read!

Barrack Obama: The Quintessential Fascist

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


7 posted on 08/14/2017 9:20:46 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama Fascism http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Apparently much of the nation including our supposedly brightest politicians and journalists have forgotten the Supreme Court Skokie decision from back in the 60’s - the Nazi Party of America petitioned to demonstrate and march in Skokie Illinois - then too the ACLU, before they became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the ‘rat party, supported the rights of the Nazis - although Skokie’s population was about fifty percent Jewish, the US Supreme Court said that nothing the Nazis would be doing, including wearing their uniforms and displaying their flag, would constitute a threat to the public and approved their march (it never took place in Skokie - it was eventually moved to Chicago, where the Nazis had wanted it to be originally) - those outraged that the demonstration was allowed to be held in Charlottesville seem to forget that the whole idea of the First Amendment protection of speech is that it guarantees speech that might be offensive to even them....


8 posted on 08/14/2017 9:34:17 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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You left out the part where someone in group 1 ran over and killed someone in group 2.


9 posted on 08/14/2017 9:36:04 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tax speech to pay for health care!


10 posted on 08/14/2017 9:44:53 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Once upon a time, an American would disagree with what you say, but defend to the death your right to say it.


11 posted on 08/14/2017 9:49:41 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cart before the horse.

If you want get rid of 1A, you are going to have to get rid of 2A first.


12 posted on 08/14/2017 9:59:30 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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Question number one. Do you know the Motive, if there was motive, for the Driver of the Challenger doing what he did?

I have read that he was attacked by the Commies and reacted in fear (badly), that he is Mentally Ill and of course the Leftist MSM pushing the Narrative that he was fulfilling what his Mentor in Terrorism President Trump wanted him to do, mind control at its finest...

Now, question number two. IF the incident with the Challenger didn’t occur, would we be hearing the FACT that the Commies assaulted the Right Wingers who were just exercising their God Given RIGHT to Free Speech and were forced to defend themselves?

We all know the answer. The Challenger accident was just the Cherry on top of the Liberal Wet Dream we see unfolding before our eyes.


13 posted on 08/14/2017 10:08:21 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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“No free speech for fasicts” = No free speech for anyone who disagrees with me.

And then the only people who get to speak are those who are willing to fight, not legally but physically, in the streets, for their right to do so. Willing and able to fight, which leaves out old geezers like me. Sorry Antifa, I am not buying that argument.


14 posted on 08/14/2017 10:10:59 PM PDT by VietVet
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"Willing and able to fight, which leaves out old geezers like me..."

That's why gunpowder was invented.

15 posted on 08/14/2017 10:13:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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I hate Illinois Nazis. {guns motor}

Too soon?

16 posted on 08/14/2017 10:16:47 PM PDT by WhirlwindAttack (We need to start drinking out of the skulls of our enemies again. Dims, Slimes, Rinos, F em all)
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To: bigdaddy45
You left out the part where someone in group 1 ran over and killed someone in group 2.

right and I left out how James Hodgkinson shot Steve Scalise and not one democrat condemned it . So what is your ploint? that the right is worse. I don't think so. Antifa and BLM have been rioting for months. The far right has only joined the fray late in the game.

17 posted on 08/14/2017 10:24:02 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (The only thing standing in the way of full blown leftist totalitarianism in America is Donald Trump)
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This is a truly horrible, evil plan. Given the way the left constantly redefines language anybody or any group will be called fascist for any reason at every opportunity and the 1st Amendment will be dead.


18 posted on 08/14/2017 10:43:38 PM PDT by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“That’s why gunpowder was invented.”

Alas, the same infirmities of age which diminish my abilities and skills to defend myself in unarmed confrontations or with legal melee weapons (for example a cane), also degrade my capacities with firearms. I’d need a shotgun to hit anything smaller than the broad side of the barn, and unfortunately it Would hit the whole broad side of the barn. I would want to defend myself, not sweep the street!


20 posted on 08/14/2017 11:55:49 PM PDT by VietVet
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