My God, this is chillingly Stalinist.
Posted on 10/26/2007 8:12:47 AM PDT by SJackson
Pathetic. I wonder if they would go to a Paul Simon concert and demand their turn on the guitar? Or a demand that Ann Coulter get a rebuttal session to every Hillary speech?
Hell - these people can’t even stand that Rush has his own radio show.
It’s not your speech, assmonkey. If you want time to speak yourself, say something worthwhile so that people will invite you to come speak.
This is the problem with libs - they think they simply DESERVE equality. Horowitz has made a name for himself that is bigger than theirs. They can’t deal with that. These protesters need to realize that they are NOBODIES and that if they want equality with someone who actually is a SOMEBODY they should make something of themselves (other than making asses of themselves).
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I thought a university was a place you attended to become exposed to different ideas. Instead, this guy, and his fascist leftist friends, didn’t want to listen. It’s all about them. All about their protests. Differing ideas must be shut down. All of them.
So, the exact complaint against Horowitz was what? What he said or the fact he was attempting to speak? It appears from the video of the event, the protest was against the content.
The Left loves to scold the rest of us when we object to something they are presenting on television or National Public Radio. Their standard answer is, if you don’t like it you are free to change the channel. In other words, if you are standing in an area where someone is saying something you disagree with, you are free to leave.
Well, these people were free to leave when Horowitz was speaking, but instead of extending to him what they demand of the rest of us, they made it impossible for him to speak.
Free speech is dead on this campus.
These libidiots have set a precedence. What would they say about “free speech” protests if conservatives stood and booed their speakers, including Hitlery? Oh, I know, they would be maced, tazed and thrown out of the building, then arrested. O’Reilly tried to argue with a female RAT spokeswoman last night about the Horowitz affair, and she said over and over that the protest was “free speech”. Liberals are truly insane.
Did you read yesterday’s thread on Latino Unidos? They don’t want anyone on campus who’s at odds with their mission.
No, I missed that.
My God, this is chillingly Stalinist.
NPR was going to do a piece on Horowitz the other day. I didn’t hear that, but I did hear how the local station introduced it: “Coming up we have a segment on David Horowitz, who runs smear campaigns against professors whose political views he disagrees with.”
Should have just shot the rat bastards.
No proof or facts... just "feelings" so they took it upon themselves to act like jackasses without writing down questions nor listening to that which they had opposing "feelings" about.
These Leftist would be first to join the brown shirts of the Nazi era.
Wow. Had not thought about it but you are just so so right. This is completely in the mode of Stalin.
14. Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.
a. They must evoke desired responses which the audience previously possesses
b. They must be capable of being easily learned
c. They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations
d. They must be boomerang-proof
18. Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
After going through the multi-paragraph whinefest at the so-called “National Project to Defend Dissent & Critical Thinking in Academia” website, I looked a place to leave a comment, but apparently they aren’t interested in the views of anyone other than themselves. Predictable from a leftist group that disrupted a public event on the grounds that their views wouldn’t be heard by an audience who’d come to hear a specific speaker discuss a specific subject.
That's what happens when you ask John Kerry a question.
And after free speech is stifled, when they come for your guns, make sure you are ready to shoot the ba$tard that sent them.
Not to be an alarmist, but somethings make me think CWII is around the corner. And this is one of them.
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What you meant was you and your communist friends wanted to ensure that ONLY your side was heard at the expense of any other views except yours.
You and your kind are merely thugs and your position is so very weak that you cannot possibly allow any conflicting views to be heard.
BTW, since you are admitted Communists, can you tell us any instance and any part of the world where Communism has succeeded? No, how about not succeeded but been as economically beneficial at the rate of even 5% of capitalism and democracy?
I think it was Churchill who said it best when he claimed
“The vice of capitalism is that it stands for the unequal distribution of goods and services,” said Churchill. “The virtue of socialism is that it stands for the equal distribution of misery.”
So the author is admitting that there was a disruption.The anarchic concept of freedom allows disruptors to violate the private property rights of owners of theaters whenever they feel like it.So, where was the university? What is their policy with respect to anarchic freedom? If they disagreed with the concept of anarchic freedom, then they should have brought the disruptions to a halt since they are the owners of the property.
"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosphy of sniveling brats." -- P.J. O'Rourke
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