Posted on 05/19/2014 9:54:51 AM PDT by jazusamo
From the Nazis to the Stalinists, tyrants have always started out supporting free speech, and why is easy to understand. Speech is vital for the realization of their goals of command, control and confiscation. Basic to their agenda are the tools of indoctrination, propagandizing, proselytization. Once they gain power, as leftists have at many universities, free speech becomes a liability and must be suppressed. This is increasingly the case on university campuses.
Back in 1964, it was Mario Savio, a campus leftist, who led the free speech movement at the Berkeley campus of the University of California, a movement that played a vital role in placing American universities center stage in the flow of political ideas, no matter how controversial, unpatriotic and vulgar. The free speech movement gave birth to the hippie movement of the '60s and '70s. The longhair, unkempt hippies of that era have grown up and now often find themselves being college professors, deans, provosts and presidents. Their intolerance of free speech and other ideas has become policy and practice on many college campuses.
Daniel Henninger, deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page, updates us on the campus attack on free speech and different ideas in his article titled "Obama Unleashes the Left: How the government created a federal hunting license for the far left" (http://tinyurl.com/mp5x428).
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, one of the nation's most accomplished women, graciously withdrew as Rutgers University's commencement speaker after two months of campus protests about her role in the Iraq War. Some students and professors said, "War criminals shouldn't be honored." One wonders whether these students would similarly protest Hillary Clinton, who, as senator, voted for the invasion of Iraq.
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For the moment, the ideological heirs of those that believe the flames of liberty must be extinguished and the aspirations of the individual curtailed for the alleged good of humanity have grown more sophisticated in their methods of getting the people to comply with their agenda. However, as Americans draw ever closer to the breaking point of just how much they are willing to put up with as frankly we are fast approaching the threshold where there is precious little left for the state to steal, we must ask with concern: will the aspiring despots among us resort to the violent tendencies of their philosophical progenitors in the attempt to bring about socialism’s ultimate triumph?
Frederick Meekins
Outstanding reference!!!
The one rhetorical question I ask often on this website is simple, it does not require an answer or any detailed pontification in a public forum...
“What are YOU prepared to do about it, and what are YOU prepared to sacrifice for success???”
Besides Walter Williams is an outstanding sage of information and experience in many aspects of the issues and concerns many of us have these days...
And as Meekins stated, we are close to the breaking point...how it manifests itself in any tumultuous rejection of these liberal/Fabian socialist ideologues is really dependent upon how far they push us...Some might very well be ok with a violent clash between what is left of our originalist Constitutionalist followers and their race baiting ilk...That is where I believe they will be most comfortable with, and easy to manipulate and perpetuate with the help of the media and other pro “big obtrusive” government allies...
It is coming to a head here, and those who are prepared, are ready to join in that fracas, but I can say this with the upmost confidence, no one will win that war...
But I am again glad you brought up that Meekin’s reference!!!
This is my relevant thought that I am posting where it seems to apply. it is not a message of defeat but instead one I think is just realistic. Other than hope, I guess I still have some hope, I challenge anyone to show me how this view is wrong. In fact, I am begging someone to do it because I really don’t want to be right.
Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
We now have at least two generations of children and one coming up who are conditioned to believe that all whites are racists, all business is evil, all prosperity is undeserved, all prosperity of the US is at the cost of weaker and poorer nations, that we owe the poor people of the world a place to be, that perversion is fine, perpetual entitlements are an obligation, money is just printed, work is an option and that the world is going to end if we don’t address climate change immediately and dramatically.
In short, they are brainwashed and scared to death. The communists that are ruling this country use envy, greed and fear to control.
Junta, tyranny, oligarchy whatever you want to call it the United States that was has fallen and it won’t be back in our life times if ever again.
At this point I don’t think that there is much that can be done.
The “Free Shit Army” has taken the ramparts and will not give up on their demands for stipends. They will riot until we begin to pay the ransom to keep them housed, fed, drugged, and in their craphole neighborhoods.
I do believe that the Civil War 2 that the left is agitating/preparing for will come to pass, and they are preparing to use the employees of the alphabet soup as their militia. That is why they are stripping the regular military...they won’t get much support from them for shooting their fellow citizens. Yet the Federal Agencies can be, and have been, staffed with leftist ideologues who have no such compunctions.
As long as power is concentrated in DC, there is no hope.
Diffuse power, return the states’ participation in the republic they helped create, and freedom's restoration is possible.
Article V.
The alphabet thugocracy has been staffed with ideologues who crave their power and their high paying phony baloney jobs. These enforcers enforce to provide for themselves by any means possible. They are like the kapos or SS of the day. Nothing but whores who could not participate in the bounty any other way or satisfy their lust for brutality legally. Losers and feinds who have been given power. Just like the women’s lib movement has provided ugly women access to the mainstream of society the thugocracy has provided these evil brutes access to riches they would not have otherwise.
NO, the military would not do this. It is not set up for lifetime employment for the minions. They aren’t paid enough and come from a different place in society for the most part.
CW2 is probably coming. I believe it is the only way to resolve this mess. The “Free Shit Army” will fight to keep their pitiful existence because they can’t do anything else. They have been bred to be slaves to the power pimps. The only reason the left is agitating for it is that they believe they can win.
“You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power - he’s free again.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Another question would be, “Do you go after the Alphabet Soup Thugs, the Free Shit Army would hide behind? Or, do you just go straight for the Free Shit Army?”
According to the Main Stream Media, we would be damned either way...
So...Just think about it before you answer, and be aware, this website is a haven for intelligence gathering entities...
It’s a lot bigger than university campuses.
Progressives are brilliant, intelligent, cosmically superior beings who should justifiably shut down the speech of gun-loving, bible-thumping, knuckle-dragging Christian morons who stand in the way of human progress.
See? Ya know?
/SARCASM/
IMHO
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