Posted on 05/08/2015 12:21:31 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
What Pamela Geller is about — courageously and boldly — is standing up for freedom. That’s it. That’s all. “My country is in danger,” she said to Sean Hannity on his radio show yesterday — and she is right. When O’Reilly says “Insulting the entire Muslim world is stupid… It does not advance the cause of liberty or get us any closer to defeating the savage jihad,” he is, as Megyn Kelly said, confused. It isn’t Geller’s job to defeat ISIS. That’s the President’s job. It isn’t her job to provoke — or not provoke. It isn’t her job to be smart — or stupid. It is her God-given, constitutional right to stand up for freedom of speech — and she exercises that right. It is her job, as it is that of every American, to work to see that our country is not endangered by gradually giving up our freedoms one by one in a constant backsliding down the slippery slope of tyranny.
What concerns with all this criticism? In effect what the critics are saying is that we should start curtailing American freedoms — the Constitution — to avoid “provoking” or offending someone. Muslims today, gays yesterday, rioting Baltimoreans last week. And so on through some catechism of political correctness.
Where does this stop? Just as Islam forbids images of [Mohammed], so too does it forbid homosexuality. If Americans are not supposed to “provoke” Muslims by doing something that offends their religion, does this mean the push that is on now for gay marriage should come to a screeching halt? Should the Supreme Court make gay marriage illegal because to recognize gay marriage would deliberately provoke Muslims across America and around the world? Indeed, isn’t an American approval of any gay “right” a deliberate provocation of Muslim sensibilities?
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Anyone who’s upset about her “provocation” in Texas should just shut up and be a good little dhimmi - maybe they’ll kill you last.
Opposing Pamela Geller is opposing free speech.
"...and the fact that we have to spend upwards of $50,000 in security speaks to how dangerous and entroubled "freedom of speech" is in this country."
The Spencer/Geller event in Texas echoes of caricatures of freedom's enemies presented by generations past by :
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”Any resemblance between the characters in this picture and any persons, living or dead, is a miracle.”
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”Any resemblance between the characters in this picture and other human beings is a dirty shame”.
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The doctrines of Nazism, Shintoism, Communism were routinely and critically caricatured and either defeated or kept at bay through these efforts - without the need for tens of thousands of dollars of security apparatus to protect the presentation of each effort.
Resolve to defeat any of the enemies of freedom was not tempered with concern whether ALL Germans were Nazis or ALL Japanese were Shinto warriors, or whether ALL Russians or Koreans were Communists. Americans were taught and embraced their Constitutional guarantees against any doctrine which threatened to infringe on those rights and went to war against those who would defend anti-freedom doctrines.
It is because caricatures break the language/literacy barrier that Islam feels so threatened. Modern technology aids in proliferating these images like never before, providing those whose literacy is impaired by the restrictions of Islam an advantage to discover the hostile depths of that imposed doctrine.
Americans understood, valued and made good use of their constitutional rights to free expression, even when it was insulting to the doctrine or the followers of criticized doctrine.
It is well past time Americans relearn these lessons.
God bless these artists and all who refuse to submit to the false gods of 'tolerance' and 'blind faith' - those who remain ignorant believing all religious doctrines are the same. Americans as a society once understood, valued and made good use of their constitutional rights to free expression, particularly when it was insulting to the doctrine or the followers of criticized doctrine. It is time Americans relearn and make full use of these lessons.
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I really would like an answer to that question.
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