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Thought Police: The Left Vs. Free Speech
The New York Post ^ | August 5, 2008 | Ralph Peters

Posted on 08/05/2008 4:45:52 AM PDT by saveliberty

AFTER a lecture to the Marine Memorial Association last week, a reporter thrust a mike toward me and asked if I thought I should be tried for war crimes for my columns in The Post supporting our military.

The reporter - who avoided revealing what outlet he was with - thought he was being wonderfully clever, but what fascinated me about the silly encounter (it was in San Francisco, after all) was how unintentionally revealing it was about the shameless hypocrisy of the left.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: firstamendment; freespeech; liberalfascism; ralphpeters
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1 posted on 08/05/2008 4:45:52 AM PDT by saveliberty
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To: saveliberty

Unbelievable.


2 posted on 08/05/2008 4:52:13 AM PDT by Apollo 13
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To: saveliberty

“a reporter thrust a mike toward me and asked if i thought i should be tried for war crimes for my columns in the post supporting the military...”

paging mr. stalin, mr. stalin, paging mr. stalin.. please re-open your channel with the democrat party...


3 posted on 08/05/2008 4:53:26 AM PDT by ripley
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To: Apollo 13

Unfortunately, it’s completely believable.


4 posted on 08/05/2008 4:54:10 AM PDT by saveliberty (Prayer blizzard for the Snow family. Tony was a blessing unto us all. We will miss him.)
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To: ripley

Actually the reporter would qualify as a ‘useful idiot’, as defined by Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov.

‘Useful Idiot’ does the work now and gets terminated after the revolution.


5 posted on 08/05/2008 4:55:55 AM PDT by saveliberty (Prayer blizzard for the Snow family. Tony was a blessing unto us all. We will miss him.)
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To: saveliberty

Someone needs to explain to me if it is a written code on the left that they have to behave like insolent children or do they really never grow up.


6 posted on 08/05/2008 5:01:20 AM PDT by Archon of the East (Universal Executive Power of the Law of Nature)
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To: saveliberty

The size of newspapers should be regulated to save the environment. No newspaper should be bigger than 3” x 5”, and not longer than 2 pages. There should be background checks on journalists before they can write, and a three day waiting period for regulatory review before their words can be published. Editorial writers should have to pass special federal exams before they can carry a pen.


7 posted on 08/05/2008 5:02:25 AM PDT by pleikumud
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To: saveliberty

Excellent quote from the article:

“For the hardcore left, the party line always trumps conscience. MoveOn isn’t new - it’s just Pravda with poor punctuation.”


8 posted on 08/05/2008 5:02:36 AM PDT by SumProVita ("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
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To: saveliberty
No surprises here.

I am still standing in stunned disbelief of the ignorance of the masses, in being taken for a ride on the religion of global warming express.


One look at the two left standing, in the run for POTUS, tells me all I need to know about our future, and my glass is always half full.

9 posted on 08/05/2008 5:02:37 AM PDT by G.Mason (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: pleikumud

LOL


10 posted on 08/05/2008 5:03:06 AM PDT by saveliberty (Prayer blizzard for the Snow family. Tony was a blessing unto us all. We will miss him.)
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"The truly outrageous aspect of such comparisons is that the American left, with its Stalin-redux willingness to rearrange history, neglects to mention that, outside of Japan, all of the 20th century's great totalitarian regimes had roots on the political left."

"It wasn't just Lenin and Stalin whose propaganda machine prefigured MoveOn. Nazi is an acronym for "National Socialist." Read Mein Kampf. It isn't a tribute to free-market capitalism, folks. Mussolini was a populist. Mao was a leftist, as was Pol Pot. The last century's worst censors and book burners all emerged from leftist ideologies."

I never knew that about recent history's most evil, but that they were all from the left is not surprising. Watching the global warming nazis in action, as well as the Soros MoveOns, the CodePinks, the Clintonistas and the MSM gives me that deja vu all over again feeling. Different day and age, but the same old playbook.

11 posted on 08/05/2008 5:03:26 AM PDT by GBA
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To: Archon of the East

There must be an incentive bonus payment of which we are not aware.


12 posted on 08/05/2008 5:04:53 AM PDT by saveliberty (Prayer blizzard for the Snow family. Tony was a blessing unto us all. We will miss him.)
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To: SumProVita

Spot on.


13 posted on 08/05/2008 5:05:18 AM PDT by saveliberty (Prayer blizzard for the Snow family. Tony was a blessing unto us all. We will miss him.)
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I give him only two stars.
From the article: The Holocaust's victims were 6 million innocents.

The 6 million victims of the German socialists who were not Jews don't count anymore?

History fail.

14 posted on 08/05/2008 5:06:21 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: G.Mason

If they are so taken in, why is offshore drilling so popular that Nancy Pelosi had to flee and go on her book tour?


15 posted on 08/05/2008 5:07:15 AM PDT by saveliberty (Prayer blizzard for the Snow family. Tony was a blessing unto us all. We will miss him.)
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To: MrEdd

Why not write to him at the New York Post and let him know?


16 posted on 08/05/2008 5:08:27 AM PDT by saveliberty (Prayer blizzard for the Snow family. Tony was a blessing unto us all. We will miss him.)
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To: SumProVita
I was about to post that quote, but saw you had beat me to it.

Actually, it's so good I think I'll do it anyway.

For the hardcore left, the party line always trumps conscience. MoveOn isn't new - it's just Pravda with poor punctuation.

17 posted on 08/05/2008 5:10:25 AM PDT by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch (My new favorite quote "You can't organize clutter.")
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To: saveliberty

OK fair comment.
When I read the first post for the 2nd time I had to laugh out loud. Why?
S’pose someone were to ask me literally:

‘Sir, do you think that you should be tried for war crimes for your columns?’

Perhaps I’d stick with a dry: ‘Yes, why not? I should be hanged or be burned alive.’

Or I’d pee on the poor idiot.


18 posted on 08/05/2008 5:25:28 AM PDT by Apollo 13
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To: Tuscaloosa Goldfinch

It needs to be shared and repeated often.

(Go Vols...beat the Tide!) ;-))


19 posted on 08/05/2008 5:26:47 AM PDT by SumProVita ("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
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To: Apollo 13

LOL

I would have asked him why he was engaging in hate speech?


20 posted on 08/05/2008 5:27:27 AM PDT by saveliberty (Prayer blizzard for the Snow family. Tony was a blessing unto us all. We will miss him.)
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