[But what you are doing is inserting a tragic, horrible crime into the argument.]
The Berg case just sticks in my mind as an example of what tyrants will do to silence free expression when they are empowered to do so.
I brought it up because I think it's relevant to the discussion.
[Do they sound like Rush, Mark Levin, Hannity, any Republican that you know? Any conservative that you know?]
Of course not. I'd say Berg's killers have more in common with the Rainbow Nazis - that's who I had in mind.
[They're criminals]
I see the actions of Berg's killers as being more consistent with those of the Nazis they admired; and given the sexual deviancy reported among Hitler's Nazi's, I extrapolate that to a not-so-distant future corporate landscape in which corporations exhibiting the moral standards of Ameriquest and Disney / gAyBC become the "norm" - and where speaking out against the transhumanist/homosexual/transgenderist agenda is suppressed, or ever outlawed, as it is in Canada.
Additionally, the likes of the Saudis and Communists are gaining a shareholder presence in the American corporate world; and neither the Saudis or the Communist Chinese are particularly noted for their appreciation of free expression.
So I think free expression will soon need all the help it can get - and if that help comes from the Dinosaur Media, then, so long as we can slice and dice their product here on FR, that's ok with me.
[We argue it out. We shout at each other. We debate. We are divisive.]
Unfortunately, I have witnessed instances on corporately sponsored on-line Tech support and consumer review forums (not FR) where this is not the case - where the corporate moderators clearly exhibit a bias towards the Rainbow Left's Agenda; and threads are edited to reflect that bias.
Thus my observation that the traditional lines between Corporatism and Communism have become markedly less clear - with some new form of Rainbow Collectivism apparently being birthed in the process.
RE: the Rainbow Left
Watch California's gay "marriage" state constitutional amendment coming this election day. Watch the collapse of San Francisco's city government resulting from among other things their sanctuary city status. Things are changing, IMO.
Re: Thus my observation that the traditional lines between Corporatism and Communism have become markedly less clear
I can agree in the context of Davos and our New Democrat Third Way progressives-transnational corporations partnership.
I have often described it as Marxist revolution from the top down.
See Davos World Economic Forum 2008 here
The Third Way knows it needs a free market to bring prosperity -- their corporate partners are being used but are happy making tons of money. Like Lenin's New Economic Plan (NEP) the day will come when the progressives start buying rope from their "partners" and hanging them. IMO.