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The Left Isn’t Stopping at Merely Censoring the Right’s Free Speech
Town Hall ^ | 28 Jan, 2019 | Rachel Alexander

Posted on 01/28/2019 7:28:57 PM PST by MtnClimber

No one is talking about the most disturbing aspect of the confrontational incident involving the Covington Catholic school boys. Those boys were not speaking. No one was trying to silence their voices or shout them down. They were merely standing there wearing MAGA hats. Not content with just silencing conservatives, the left is now actively trying to chase conservatives out of the public sphere and society at large. The Native American man, Nathan Phillips, who confronted the boys with his drum was trying to chase them away from the Lincoln Memorial. The person who edited the video to make it appear that the boys were the ones accosting Phillips wanted to justify what Phillips was doing. The media went along with it and condemned the boys.

This type of totalitarian censorship has been creeping into society more and more during the Trump administration. It is totalitarian because the First Amendment protects both the freedom of speech and the freedom of assembly. Someone merely shows up in a public place wearing a MAGA hat and they risk being attacked. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders showed up to eat dinner with her family at a restaurant and the owners kicked her out. Perhaps most frightening of all, Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s family didn’t even leave their home and they had masked protesters yelling outside and banging on their door, chanting, “We know where you sleep at night.” ….

This is a logical extension of the left’s tactics of resorting to silencing their ideological opponents because they can’t beat them in substantive debates. This is how Antifa arose. Those young, angry Millennials don’t have the brainpower to defeat conservative arguments, so they resort to violence.

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To: MtnClimber

There is a racial component to this evil too. It isn’t just left it’s genocide they want too.


21 posted on 01/28/2019 8:22:54 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: MtnClimber
Another year or so and Democrats with their useful idiots will demanding that Catholics be arrested and jailed for mentioning their faith in public or getting caught wearing a crucifix.

Don't be surprised if we soon see get a chance to compare the reaction of the democrat and RINO scum in DC get over Catholic Churches being burned down compared to the myth about Black churches being burned back in the Clinton years.

JMHo

22 posted on 01/28/2019 8:24:29 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Gene Eric

Wven if the marxists are wearing badges.


23 posted on 01/28/2019 8:24:45 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MtnClimber

it’s weird how the left can say they want to gut the right, ad the msm are silent- but a conservative catholic kid smirks and the left go absolutely mental


24 posted on 01/28/2019 8:32:29 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434

The MSM are the clearest threats to freedom.


25 posted on 01/28/2019 8:38:29 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

“...The Native American man, Nathan Phillips, ...”

Anyone BORN HERE is a “native American”.


26 posted on 01/28/2019 8:40:33 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

Most people won’t comply.


27 posted on 01/28/2019 8:53:19 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: DOC44

Yes, it would be ugly. But they are not going to back off. We can’t and won’t allow them to eliminate is. They would make Stalin and Hitler look tame if they ever get the power to do so. I’m serious.


28 posted on 01/28/2019 8:55:28 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Gene Eric

Yep.


29 posted on 01/28/2019 9:01:53 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: dhs12345

They are ruthless and rule with an iron fist. Look at Pelosi. Scary for the USA as this is not the kind of country we are supposed to be.


30 posted on 01/28/2019 9:04:03 PM PST by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: MtnClimber

The MSM are the clearest threats to freedom.

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They certainly are. If we had a decent and honest MSM, the Left would be rejected and out of business.


31 posted on 01/28/2019 9:08:16 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: MtnClimber

Violence, the solution of the weak leftist.


32 posted on 01/28/2019 9:17:41 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: MtnClimber

The ratchet only goes one direction with the left. They’re going to keep turning that wrench until they finally go one click too far.

When they do, it’s going to light a fuse that no power on earth will be able to extinguish.

It will be remembered as the day left-liberalism in America finally died.


33 posted on 01/28/2019 9:52:22 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

Amendments to the Constitution can’t be repealed by the Supreme Court, though the court can most definitely weaken the free exercise thereof.


34 posted on 01/28/2019 9:55:30 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: philetus

I copied my tagline from a comment a FReeper made.


35 posted on 01/28/2019 10:52:56 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yup.I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: It’s coming.


36 posted on 01/29/2019 3:01:47 AM PST by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
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The mask hiding the Left’s genocidal rage slipped during the print/electronic lynching of Covington Catholic's high school boys.

And it was frightening.

Lefty lynch mobs called for assorted horrors even the KKK could not envision:

<><> feeding teenage boys head-first into wood chippers,

<><> locking the boys into the school and burning the school to the ground.

The obedient media (print, broadcast, social) unwittingly exposed the wrath of the Left's Orwellian hate days after the factual record was corrected.

SHOULD BE NOTED: The Left's Grand Wizards waged their knee-jerk War of Hate without the familiar white hoods and capes.

37 posted on 01/29/2019 3:10:57 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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QUOTING FROM THE LEFT'S HANDBOOK ON HATE:
“Wearing an improper expression on your face is a punishable offense. This is a facecrime, and will not be tolerated."
(original source Orwell)
38 posted on 01/29/2019 3:17:58 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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The America lefty loonies love to hate:
a typical teen smarty face on a high school trip, wearing patriotic headgear is construed as "evil symbols of patriarchal oppression"......

So says the usual cast of characters:
Leftist mobs, drooling media types, braindead haters, and the inevitable money-hungry lowlifes seeking victim status.

39 posted on 01/29/2019 3:23:33 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: MtnClimber

This is what they meant when borrack said they “go high” /R?


40 posted on 01/29/2019 3:23:42 AM PST by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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