Posted on 03/21/2024 7:46:10 AM PDT by packagingguy
Does this turn into a satire at some point ? The author seems unhinged.
“taking illegal aliens into the army”
Giving lying lawbreakers guns is a really stupid idea.
I’ll happily point out where rich leftists live if a gun is pointed at me.
See what I did there? I turned it around on the evil rats, rinos, and enemedia.
This is fascism, pure and unadulterated.
“Excessive free speech”.
January 6 does resemble an Inquisition.
Not at all. Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther because he dared print and distribute theology that was in direct conflict with the Holy Roman Church. At the time, the church was the most powerful socioeconomic power on the planet.
It was the printing press that enabled Martin Luther’s message to be spread, much as the internet has allowed “The Masses” to communicate without being filtered through ABCNBCCBSCNNFOX and the NYT/WAPO first.
I consider Martin Luther’s work to be the pioneer First Amendment battle in all of human history.
He's also projecting.
The way to reverse the trend is with rigid regulation, but the free speech lobby in the United States is as fierce as the gun lobby.
I can’t believe this was printed! I’m physically sick.
The remedy is more speech! Let’s Roll!
gotta wonder if these people who hate free speech realize that this road easily goes both ways. “all roads go two ways...even a one way” L.Star
(In their minds.)
Regards,
This is the whole point of free speech.
The writer of the piece, I assume an employee of a newspaper misses a big point when he says that printing presses were controlled by the ‘elites’ of the time. Martin Luther’s 95 Theses were rapidly copied and sold by owners of the brand new printing press. Thus his ideas quickly spread throughout much of Germany.
The powers-that-were quickly cracked down on this dangerous liberty of spreading the word. Laws were passed requiring government approval for things printed. Not unlike the government wanting control of the internet today.
“We’ll tell you what to read and think”
When did freepers start caring what Canadian opinion columns said?
“Excessive” free speech? Is that like “excessive” freedom of movement? Or “excessive” freedom of religion?
The CIA killed JFK when he tried to expose them.
Only that now it’s a sign that liberals are saying the quiet part out loud.
Spot on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright
The origin of copyright law in most European countries lies in efforts by the church and governments to regulate and control the output of printers.[9] Before the invention of the printing press, a writing, once created, could only be physically multiplied by the highly laborious and error-prone process of manual copying by scribes.
An elaborate system of censorship and control over scribes did not exist, as scribes were scattered and worked on single manuscripts.[10]
Printing allowed for multiple exact copies of a work, leading to a more rapid and widespread circulation of ideas and information (see print culture).[9] In 1559 the Index Expurgatorius, or List of Prohibited Books, was issued for the first time.[10]
“When other communications revolutions like the printing press, radio, and television came along, they were still largely controlled by the elites.”
Yes, and it was called fascism. The same leftists cry about ‘banned’ books that aren’t banned at all (no such thing here). Then call for free speech restrictions on sources they don’t like. How is that any different than banning a book?
The duplicity is astonishing...also lost on them - yet they believe they’re intellectually superior. So when people won’t go along with their ideas they must be forced to do so - for their ‘own wellbeing’.
For them, the end justifies the means, by any means necessary. They are evil. There’s no discussion to be had with them anymore.
“It is hard for me to believe so many people and institutions are fully embracing the concept of the dystopian world envisioned in book 1984.”
I would hazard a guess that the majority of the population hasn’t read it... or anything else that doesn’t show up on their phones.
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