Shut Up, They Explained

Opinion Journal ^ | 1/25/2006 | Brian C. Anderson

[saveliberty]

TAKING LIBERTIES

Shut Up, They Explained
The left's regulatory war against free speech.

BY BRIAN C. ANDERSON
Wednesday, January 25, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST

The rise of alternative media--political talk radio in the 1980s, cable news in the '90s, and the blogosphere in the new millennium--has broken the liberal monopoly over news and opinion outlets. The left understands acutely the implications of this revolution, blaming much of the Democratic Party's current electoral trouble on the influence of the new media's vigorous conservative voices. Instead of fighting back with ideas, however, today's liberals quietly, relentlessly and illiberally are working to smother this flourishing universe of political discourse under a tangle of campaign-finance and media regulations. Their campaign represents the most sustained attack on free political speech in the United States since the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts. Though Republicans have the most to lose in the short run, all Americans who care about our most fundamental rights and the civic health of our democracy need to understand what's going on--and resist it.

[syriacus]

Thanks for posting this!

[Jaysun]

Jeez. That article really pisses one off.

"So you're saying that the Soviets had it right and that we should mimic them? And Castro......you applaud Castro?" Of course they want to shut us up.

[xcamel]

All FReepers need to read this...all of it... a couple of times if necessary.

While good americans were trying to defend freedom, the $$$$ leftists were selling that which you hold most dear right down the river.

[saveliberty]

You're welcome!

[saveliberty]

Money quote: "All this massively begs the question: Why should any American need government permission to express himself?"

[saveliberty]

They are willing to give up political for monetary "rights"

[Just mythoughts]

Look at the mentality of liberal speak. Hillry's usage of 'plantation' is once again a huge crack in how difficult it is going to be for her to straddle that centrist fence.

These that take our tax dollars and then use our tax dollars to exact a price, control our speech against 'them', perfect example of their wall-building. The servants have become the master and the tax payer is the servant. Bondage the liberal way is to criminalize speech.

Seems we have need for freedom right here in the good USA.

[sergeantdave]

An important article. Well researched. Lays out the leftist attack to silence free speech. Recommend that it be read by every Freeper.

[saveliberty]

Kathleen Parker slammed her-- did you catch it?

A whiffed high five

by Paul Mirengoff

 

I haven't had anything to say about Hillary Clinton's MLK day statement about Congress being run like a plantation because, frankly, I didn't see much in it. Substantively, the import of the statement may well be true, and there's nothing terribly noteworthy in a leading Democrat (especially one named Clinton) playing the race card before a black audience.

But Kathleen Parker has managed to come up with an interesting take on Hillary's comment. She sees it as evidence that Hillary lacks what it takes to be "the first black female president." As Parker puts it, "Watching Clinton's soul-sister moment was like watching a whiffed high-five, embarrassing as watching middle-aged white guys playing air guitar. Stop it."

Posted by Paul at 08:50 PM | Permalink

[saveliberty]

He makes a very good case.

[libstripper]

What really galls me is how these liberal creeps, like Rus
Finegold, the Chappaquiddick Kid, et al, cry crocodile tears about the administration invading Americans' civil liberties while those same vile Marxists are up to their eyeballs in this immensely elaborate conspiracy to deny all of us our most important constitutional right, free speech. Don't even get me started about what they're trying to do to the Aecond Amendment.

Their whole effort is actually to destroy the real constitutional rights that serve real, legitimate purposes, like keeping politics reasonably clean through freee speech, self defense, and protection of private property while they promote creation of non-existent "rights" like killing unborn babies and being a terrorist.

[saveliberty]

Exactly, they want despotism and they disguise it as humanity

[LivFREEordie]

BUMP

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

PING 4 L8R

[IGOTMINE]

Bump and ping for the historical files.

[Gritty]

If Liberals persist and are successful in squelching emanations from the boom box, they are ultimately going to get emanations from the cartridge box.

This is not a road they should persist in gong down...

[libstripper]

President Bush is doing his level best to protect us, our lives, and our freedoms from despotism. These pieces of walking human filth want to expose us to the tender attentions of our murderous foreign enemies, who are their friends and whom they support, while they simultaneously destroy our most vital freedoms.

[saveliberty]

They want us to be hurt as they are hurt that we are not complying. Then they want us to lose so they can win.

It's a deadlier version of whatever you're for, I'm against it.

[zeugma]

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