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To: Cincinatus' Wife

...typicallly....a lib idiot surfaces, is looked at as incompetent,small minded,politically driven, and not camera shy, by the American citizen.
Now the LA TIMES holds him up as a hero.....
When idiots insist on digging a hole, it’s best to encourage them.


10 posted on 01/11/2011 2:46:45 AM PST by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle; All

http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/01/09/in-defense-of-inflamed-rhetoric/

“.....Any call to cool “inflammatory” speech is a call to police all speech, and I can’t think of anybody in government, politics, business, or the press that I would trust with that power. As Jonathan Rauch wrote brilliantly in Harper’s in 1995, “The vocabulary of hate is potentially as rich as your dictionary, and all you do by banning language used by cretins is to let them decide what the rest of us may say.” Rauch added, “Trap the racists and anti-Semites, and you lay a trap for me too. Hunt for them with eradication in your mind, and you have brought dissent itself within your sights.”

Our spirited political discourse, complete with name-calling, vilification—and, yes, violent imagery—is a good thing. Better that angry people unload their fury in public than let it fester and turn septic in private. The wicked direction the American debate often takes is not a sign of danger but of freedom. And I’ll punch out the lights of anybody who tries to take it away from me.”


16 posted on 01/11/2011 3:11:08 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife (Allhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122429/posts)
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