Posted on 06/25/2018 6:12:52 PM PDT by DeweyCA
Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.
It’s always has been “Free speech for me but not for thee” - you say something they don’t like or agree with then it’s hostile rants and abuse without any real meaning of intelligent discussion.
Quick summary of the Left’s position:
“I seem to be losing the political argument rather badly. Here, let me change the rules ...”
Scratch a “liberal” find a totalitarian underneath.
Every time.
Mental gymnastics of rationalizing being dictators while in their minds their still free speech advocates...This is why liberalism is a mental disorder that must be defeated.
Leftists are totalitarians at heart and will act upon that impulse as soon as they feel strong enough to do so.
Witness the big push for gun grabbing. It doesn’t take a conspiracy theorist to see they want Libertarians and Conservatives rendered powerless to resist.
Carol Christ, Berkeley’s Chancellor, gets the last word.
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The problem in a nutshell.
The First Amendment refers explicitly only to the “useful art” known as the printing press, but
- Article 1 Section 8:
- The Congress shall have power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries . . .
demands the free construction of “press” to mean any technology which enables the user to promote his ideas more broadly than speech.
- Amendment 9
- The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
“Liberals” call “the press” “the Fourth Estate” because they are happy with a unified establishment journalism, and want membership in the Associated Press to be considered effectively a title of nobility.
“Liberals” like journalism which claims objectivity but which is systematic about promoting bad news. Claiming objectivity while knowing you are negative is tantamount to asserting that “negativity is objectivity.” But “the conceit that negativity is objectivity” is a serviceable definition of cynicism. “Liberals” and journalists are cynical about society. And since government’s rationale is the need to limit evil in society, cynicism towards society corresponds to naiveté towards government - the two attitudes which are precisely the witches’ brew of socialism.
The reason for the homogeneity of journalism is simple:
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations. . . and all major US journalism has been meeting together (virtually) via the AP “wire” since the memory of living man (or even the father of living man) runneth not to the contrary. The “conspiracy against the public” which that has induced is the de facto systematic promotion of socialism.
“...this false formalism where the right to speech is recognized but the harm caused by that speech is not?”
I regard Powell’s words to be deeply offensive, an act of violence to my sensibilities. Should he be prosecuted for this “violence”?
What he means, of course, is that those in power, presumably people who think like he does, will decide who gets to be protected from verbal “violence” and who will not.
Liberal = Leftist = Progressive = Anarchist = Socialist = Communist = Authoritarian
I had to look this up:
> Powell spells his name in lowercase based on the idea that we should be “part of the universe, not over it, as capitals signify.”
What a crackpot!
The totalitarian NYT wants Americans silenced so only their lies are heard. Maybe we need a license and back ground check to be hired by mass media.
No, the digital age makes protecting free speech even more critical.
“part of the universe, not over it, as capitals signify.”
e e cummings held a different view.
Chemerinsky IS NOT the leading free speech expert in the country. Liberal attorney Floyd Abrams was out in the weeds many decades ago.
Chem is just a California leftist with a good disguise.
PS: One of my law professors at a paralegal institute was the Jewish attorney who was appointed by the ACLU to defend the Nazis right to march/protest (whatever) in the heavily Jewish/Holocaust survivor community in Skokie, Ill. He said that he had to defend the right of all people to freedom of speech and movement no matter how horrible they were.
He was a brave attorney and a “mensch” as a person and teacher.
Thanks for your classes, Steve. I use what you taught me nearly everyday in my professional career.
Maybe some New Yorkers should go back to their own countries and leave our First Amendment alone.
So-called liberals trying criminalize dissent, being republican, being a Trump supporter, and whatever else they don’t like.
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