Posted on 11/30/2015 6:07:56 AM PST by shortstop
It is not “hateful rhetoric†to suggest that Planned Parenthood should be defunded.
Likewise, it is not “hateful rhetoric†to suggest that the monetized transfer of fetal parts – a violation of federal law – should be stopped.
Those things are opinions.
They are opinions that don’t please Planned Parenthood or its supporters in the Democratic Party, but they are opinions.
Opinions protected not just by the First Amendment, but by the tradition of political speech in America. And this country, lest anyone forget, is currently negotiating the next transfer of power. We have had the reign of Obama the Divider, and the nation is deciding if it wants a third term, or if it wants to go another direction.
And now, in an effort to influence that decision, political speech is being called terrorism.
In the wake of a murderous rampage at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood, the head of the organization is making a connection between that event and those opinions. As recently as this morning, she has talked about the “hateful rhetoric†directed at the organization, and its consequences – a reference to the murders.
That is an interesting connection.
Progressives who go out of their way to assert as an absolute that Islam is not connected to Islamic terrorism, are certain that political discussion of Planned Parenthood is responsible for the attack there.
More specifically, the “hate speech†of “Republican presidential candidates†– to further quote the head of Planned Parenthood – is an attack on “doctors†and “women.†There is no disagreement in progressive America, there is only orthodoxy and hate speech. And those who do not toe the line of Planned Parenthood support are engaged in hate speech.
Just like those who don’t believe in global warming or don’t use the hashtag Black Lives Matter or don’t think a good thing happened at the University of Missouri. If you don’t believe in and support the progressive agenda – a.k.a. Marxism – you are a hater and are engaged in hate speech.
And the progressives aren’t above using someone else’s death to advance their political agenda. Barack Obama rushes to the microphone to attack guns; the leftist Twitter army equates disagreement on abortion with terrorism.
The logic goes like this: The Colorado Springs carnage was terrorism, the guy said something about baby parts, the Republicans said something about baby parts, therefore the Republicans are terrorists.
Or, more arrogantly, the progressives – from the campaign and the newscast – put on their very serious voices and wonder aloud if the Republican presidential candidates need to dial back the rhetoric, for public safety, or if maybe they lack the maturity to be elected leaders.
Clearly they lack the intellect to be leaders, or they wouldn’t be Republicans.
Right?
The basic premise of the Democratic Party is: If everybody else was as smart as we are, they’d be progressives like us.
Disagreement, from the progressive perspective, comes not from a difference of view or values, but from an inferiority of mentality or morality.
Conservatives are conservatives because they are, in any number of ways, inferiors.
That’s Democrat dogma.
And that’s how Planned Parenthood declares that the pro-life teachings of the church a murdered cop pastored at are “hateful rhetoric.â€
And that’s all bull crap.
What happened at the Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs was a heartbreaking crime. A dozen innocent people were shot, three seemingly wonderful people were murdered. The peace of a lawful business and a quiet community were shattered by an evil son of a bitch who shot up the place.
And while we don’t yet know his motives with certainty, the name above the door certainly does give a hint.
But to blame his actions on a political philosophy or a freely expressed opinion is opportunistic and exploitative – and dishonest. It is one more example of the Left whoring out tragedy for the advancement of its partisan agenda.
Something approaching half of all Americans – a number in excess of 140 million – disagree with abortion. Those people hold a view, and sometimes express that view, and they do so peacefully and legally. A number in excess of that, according to polls, disagree with the transfer of dismembered fetuses for money. Those scores of millions of Americans are not engaged in “hate rhetoric†and they didn’t shoot anybody in Friday, they are merely holding and expressing a view.
And the Republican presidential candidates are in no logical way connected to the Colorado Springs murderer, and the assertion that they are, or that their campaign positions are, is so absurd and strained as to be dishonest.
To pretend the positions of the Republicans are hate speech, or that they are an attack on doctors or women, works to the political advantage of the Democrats and their progressive patrons, but just don’t happen to be true.
For America, Friday was a tragedy. Friday was a crime.
But for progressives, Friday was an opportunity.
That’s why the president went to the microphone. That’s why the talking points are “hateful rhetoric†and “attack upon doctors and women.â€
The left is going full-bore in this electoral cycle to stifle dissent. It’s the whole point of the college protests and black lives matter. Should they revoke the 1st Amendment for this election, they don’t ever intend to give back those rights.
I wish people would quit calling this the Planned Parenthood Rampage.
That’s what the Drive By’s, libs and progressives want you to call it.
We don’t know this lunatics motive, but since he shot up a bunch of people outside and not from the cover of the building, nor did he hurt anyone inside, it seems that the Butcher Shop was not his primary target, more just a place to hide.
Listen to the police radios and decide.
This is being portrayed as an attack on Planned Parenthood, but the shooting was happening in the Kings Soopers parking lot and outside the building the Planned Parenthood facility was in.
The media are making this about Planned Parenthood to use against Conservatives, Christians, Gun Owners, and Pro-Life people who oppose the sale of baby bits.
They are trying to silence the opposition to the murder for hire operations they perform.
“That’s what the Drive By’s, libs and progressives want you to call it.”
I was watching CNN the other night, and they were talking about the crisis in terrorism on planned infanticide. How the frequency of these attacks means there is something bigger going on.
What they have conveniently omitted is before George Tiller (I think that was 2009) the attack prior to that was in the 90’s. So 3 attacks in almost 20 years is an epidemic, but multiple terrorist attacks over the last couple of months by muslim fanatics is nothing.
I remember during the Bush presidency, celebrities would accept their academy award and make a flowery speech - that usually included some language that implied we were living in cold war East Germany, with free speech under severe threat.
I always wondered what the heck they were talking about.
Now I understand it was just projection.
“Hate Speech” is a Cultural Marxist term to destroy debate and control the “proper perceptions” in the masses.
We should banish ALL “hate” speech “Laws” since they are irrational and subjective (thought crimes)....
This “crime” was because you had a mentally ill “transgendered” who not only hates God and himself-—he takes his rage out on other people.
Sexually warped people are abused as children and are all irrational and immoral——they belong in a mental institution, not on the streets.
So what if it is? It is not unreasonable to hate the murder of innocents.
Why do consevatives give up this ground? Who cares if they call it hate speech?
Do we truly love good if we do not hate evil? Does not God hate baby killing?
I hate planned parenthood because i love babies. Come what may.
Protesting child sacrifice is LOVE speech. If the greatest love is laying down your life, the mother who died recently to give a full out of the womb life to her child is the greatest love.
But no talk about the BLM movement and Sharton and Jackson marching in the streets wanting cops killed and then they are and that is fine? No press reports on cops being assassinated for hours and days on end, no only on Republicans that killed people in a PPP clinic.
Pro baby killers call “hateful rhetoric” responsible for the Colorado PP shooting (with NO EVIDENCE). Yet they call Trump a Nazi, Dr. Carson a fool, Republicans evil, yet that’s somehow not “hate”??? The “progressive” lives in a miserable world of constant condemnation of others... EVERYTHING free and prosperous people do is condemned by the self-righteous moral busybodies who (mis)label themselves “liberal” and/or “progressive”. Hypocrisy is their creed... what you eat, drive, think and worship is WRONG to our down-the-nose, finger wagging “moral betters”. Only their dictatorial rule can “save” the Earth and guarantee “fairness” for all. One must go way back to the Garden (Genesis 3:5) to find a LIE even close to the crap “liberals” spew daily. All who oppose them are “haters”... yet without venom and vitriol they constantly pour on others, I think (misnamed) “liberal”/”progressives” would starve.
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