Posted on 06/15/2009 7:00:02 PM PDT by FromLori
Ironic isn’t it? The left always cried and whined about their right to dissent was being squashed.
Bush was extremely lenient with his dissenters.
He even let them make movies about people planning to assassinate him, publish books to the same effect, and basically use free speech in ways that this administration seems to consider criminal.
With the murder of Dr. George Tiller by an anti-abortion fanatic, closely followed by a shooting by a white supremacist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the analysis looks prescient”
Right. Two isolated murders by individuals who may or may not have been right-wingers. Do they have a crystal ball over there at Homeland?
This is like saying Lee Harvey Oswald proved the so-called Red Scare right.
I don’t think Bush was “lenient with dissenters”.
Bush, for all his faults, was a freedom-loving American who happened to be President and didn’t let the fact that he was President get in the way of his love of and understanding of the basic freedoms of America.
He truly believed in the right to dissent. It had nothing to do with being “lenient”.
IG UESS OBAMA HASNT HEARD OF THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH. LOL WHAT A SURPRISE
Simply more proof that Barry can not handle criticism since invariably to Barry, criticism = dissent. The irony here is that we all know that Dems and Liberals can NOT handle criticism, period. In light of such, I am not surprised that dissent may become criminalized.
I know Barry has got to be soooooooooo proud of himself....
Constitution has become a main visitors entrance door mat at the WH, have you not heard? ;-)
Lenient is almost the wrong term for how Bush tolerated the insane left. The single most frustrating part of being a conservative was to go out into the world and defend the man and his administration when he wouldn’t defend himself. He let the left fling poo all over him.
I do get your point however.
It’s time to defang the left in a huge way.
i guess its hard to get education on AMERICAS MOST IMPORTANT VALUES in KENYA.........
They would still whine and cry if someone tried to take away a porn peddlers right to distribute smut to school children. They'd be up in arms about protecting pornographers. And they want to be able to say ANYTHING about conservatives - jokes about raping our children, condom practice for our kindergartners - stories that we're all killers - anything goes when it's coming out of a liberals mouth.
What they want to restrict is conservatives right to speak back to them. In short, liberals are much more like Iranian Mullahs, North Korea's dictators and Germany's brown shirts. Liberals are just old fashioned thugs. Freedom for themselves and none for us.
Oh yeah. The left is no different from the Communists and Nazis.
When Paul tries to pin him on Conservatives he shows his true colors.
Time to check through Paul's cellphone directory and his landline calls over the last year ~ see how many times he contacted the guy.
Totalitarians are defined by their tactics NOT their choice of victim. And yeah, today it IS the liberals ...
But that's no different than haters who hated "joos" or racists who hated blacks. It's the tactics that are defining - not the choice of victim. Krugman has defined himself.
This time it's us - conservative Americans. Millions of us painted with the broadest of brushes.
A broad brush Krugman would never use on millions of liberals if 2 or 3 liberals - or 2 or 3 Muslims were killers. No, he knows better than that.
But conservatives?
In Krugman's twisted mind, the case is built and he's looking for other to hate with him. Maybe Letterman could hate with him - but Letterman went too far too quickly.
The country wasn't ready for jokes about the rape of a 14 year old - even if the raped child was a Jews - oops - I mean conservative.
I'll bet he thought the rape joke about Palin's daughter was funny. If Krugman had his way conservatives would wear yellow triangles, or stars or "K's" on our clothes so people would know who we were.
We know his type.
NAZI GERMANY REBORN
What’s interesting is that there are two lines of thought/[un-]reason which would ‘validate’ the DHS’s report:
1 - The presence of the warned ‘extremism’ which would justify the DHS’s existance.
2 - The ABSENSE of the warned ‘extremism’ which would ‘prove’ the efficiency/effectiveness of the report.
Either way, the DHS has set itself up, in its own mind anyway, for a win-win situation.
The FBI is the Journal reported, quoting an FBI memo, trying to identify a potential lone wolf before he or she would act out violently.”
Guilty of thought-crimes. It’s impossible to disprove a thought. The left looked at 1984 as a map instead of a warning.
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