Posted on 05/02/2020 10:37:08 AM PDT by billorites
Almost everywhere you turn today, politicians are telling the public to “get used to the new normal” after the pandemic. For some, this means public health precautions from social distancing to banning handshakes. Others have quickly added long standing dreams for everything from the guaranteed income advocated by Representative Ocasio Cortez, and also raised by House Speaker Pelosi, to mailed voting elections advocated by many Democrats.
The most chilling suggestion comes from politicians and academics who have called for the censorship of social media and the internet. The only thing spreading faster than the virus has been censorship and the calls for greater restrictions on free speech. The Atlantic published an article last week by Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith and University of Arizona law professor Andrew Keane Woods calling for Chinese style censorship of the internet.
They declared that “in the great debate of the past two decades about freedom versus control of the network, China was largely right and the United States was largely wrong.”
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Chinese professor Xu Zhangrun is one of many arrested after publishing criticism of President X on his handling of the crisis. The government just deemed such criticism to be fake news causing panic. It has censored accounts of its concealing the source of the initial outbreak, including censorship on such Chinese apps as WeChat.
Citizens now will have to decide, as Goldsmith and Woods insist, if “China was right.” For my part, I am hopeless in my desire for old fashioned free speech. You see, this “new normal” seems a lot like the old normal that the Framers changed with the First Amendment. China may be right for many in Congress and academia, but it remains on the wrong side of history. Not even a pandemic will change that.
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There is one big exception however to the Left’s use of the term “Nazi”.
For some reason, the Left loves to call Poles “Nazis”. I see it all the time, just because the Polish government doesn’t kowtow to the Left’s demands.
Turley is the type of liberal that existed before the coming of the Clintons.
Humphrey was a decent guy. He could have played far more dirty with Nixon, but didn’t.
EVERY idea that the Libs/Marxists propose is baaaaad for the United States. Its why they exist.
Precisely! I still consider myself a Classic Liberal. How that definition has changed!
Me too.
“ Leftism is about illiberal authoritarian control over people and crushing basic rights. The leftists have beaten the liberals.”
To the leftists, Pelosi is a conservative.
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