Amazing of some of the keyboard patriots on this site isn't it.
They never get out on the street or work for effective change, yet they are the most intolerant of anyone around here. 'Pod
A Chill Wind is Blowing-from the Political left by Robert Pappas
The First Article of Amendment of the US Constitution states in part, "Congress shall make no law. abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." So, where do political liberals get the idea that their freedom of expression is being abridged? The "usual suspects" are whining loudly, indeed wringing their hands, even "lighting their hair on fire" because the American public is choosing to turn its back to them, in short, they are free to speak, and the rest of us are free to ignore them.
In an Associated Press article, Wednesday, April 16, 2003; 6:52 AM
"WASHINGTON - One casualty of the war with Iraq is the First Amendment right to oppose it, actor Tim Robbins says.
Robbins and longtime companion actress Susan Sarandon are war opponents whose scheduled appearance at baseball's Hall of Fame was canceled last week by former Reagan administration aide Dale Petroskey, now the hall's president.
"A chill wind is blowing in this nation," Robbins told a National Press Club luncheon Tuesday. "Every day the airwaves are filled with warnings, veiled and unveiled threats, spewed invective and hatred directed at any voice of dissent."
If anyone believes Robbins, Michael "Arafat" Moore and the others of their persuasion, First Amendment rights have become a casualty of the war because they opposed it. But typical of political liberals, their leftist, liberal political "spin" doesn't stand up to even the mildest scrutiny. No law prohibited them from speaking their anti-war blather. No law proscribed their right to reveal the utter ignorance and anti-Americanism they chose to express. No law dictates that they retract their words. No law stands between them and the microphone or interposes itself between their fingers and the keyboard. On this score the Constitution remains intact and it is th ey who are wrong for being vicious, hate-filled sewers of invective.
The American mainstream has at long last begun to recognize and know them for what and who they are, self-aggrandizing, pseudo-intellectual hypocrites whose ignorance is exceeded only by their wealth. They whine, "foul," when others choose to exercise their Constitutional right to ignore them. Those pathetic, half-witted, would-be policy opinion makers are so arrogant that they evidently believe that others should be forced to be in their presence and that they are entitled to be heard when most do not care to listen.
Given their expressed views, those people are not "anti-war," they are anti-America. They should do us all a favor and seek political asylum in Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan or some other garden spot, like Kenya, China, Russia, or better yet, North Korea. With the slump in air travel there are bargains to be had, and one can hope that they will avail themselves of "choice" one-way fares.
Semper Fidelis
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