Posted on 06/18/2014 8:48:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This is a disturbing statement from a woman who’d like to head the federal government. Noah mentioned this quote in his commentary on the room to Hillary’s left. Gun control is one of few issues where she sent a signal to the party’s liberal base that she might be more boldly liberal than Obama. But this isn’t just an appeal to the Left on policy. It’s an appeal to the Left’s routine and increasing tendency to equate political speech they don’t like with physical violence. See, bothersome political speech with which you disagree is prized and protected. But violence against one’s fellow citizens is not. Convince the quite polite American public that certain forms of political speech are tantamount to physical violence, and chances are you can be rid of many of the voices you dislike.
Cue Hillary, who describes the opinions of those who oppose her thusly:
We cannot let a minority of people, and that’s what it is, it is a minority of people, hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people,” Clinton said during a live CNN town hall.
“We,” said the aspiring head of the federal government, “cannot let”—As in, “allow.” What remedy, pray tell, does she have in mind for this outrageous epidemic in free thought? “a minority of people”—The minority, the protection of whose rights Thomas Jefferson called a “sacred principle” in his First Inaugural Address and whose endangerment at the hands of a tyrannical majority James Madison called the Republic’s “great danger?” “and that’s what it is, it is a minority of people”— Regardless of the truth of this dubious assertion, she seems to repeat it to justify her advocacy for the prohibition of the minority’s dissent, which makes it sound like someone never glanced at a Founding document. “Screw ‘em, majority rules,” the working draft of the Constitution proclaimed. “hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority.”— Let me see if I can rephrase the idea of a “viewpoint that terrorizes the majority” in such a way that a longtime Democratic politician might understand it. There’s an old adage originally used to describe journalism and oft repeated by the activist Left to give itself airs— “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
Hillary Clinton and liberal activists are the comfortable. They require a “safe place” where the presence of others who deign to disagree cannot “trigger” them. Your mere opposition to an asinine limit on mag capacity, which was a demonstrable disaster in incompetent governance in her home state of New York, rises to the level of “terrorizing” for a woman who famously couldn’t figure out if that term applied to anyone involved in Benghazi. But for you, law-abiding citizen, not a problem.
Much of the Left desires that criticisms of gun control policies be banished from the public square. Espousing them is abetting child murder, in their eyes, no matter how much evidence or what arguments Second Amendment activists marshal. Hearing this argument from fellow citizens who call themselves liberal is disappointing.
Hearing it from a potential presidential candidate is creepy. Especially one who’d be taking the reins from an administration that flagrantly uses the power of the federal government to get people it doesn’t like to stop saying things of which it does not approve.
Hitler and his minions equated “speech they disagreed with “ to “violence” too...and took it from there.
Chancellor Hitler and the earlier Weimar Republic effectively disarmed the populace before that play. How will the elites here pull that off? There aren’t enough police and soldiers here to even begin the job.
I watch Hillary pretend to be a normal human being with great amusement.
She always slips up.
She reminds me of Peter Sellers in this famous film clip from Dr. Strangelove:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9ihKq34Ozc
There’s a REASON she’s often referred to as “Hitlery”! ;)
Simple...they will STAGE a few more high-profile incidents....and then use the “war on women/racism/ shit to scream “it’s for the children”, loud and long. A HUGE majority will fall in line....Then....
When the Modern Attack was gathering, a couple of lifetimes ago, while it was still confined to a small number of academic men, the first assault upon reason began. It seemed to make but little progress outside a restricted circle. The plain man and his common-sense (which are the strongholds of reason) were not affected. Today they are.
But reason today is everywhere decried. The ancient process of conviction by argument and proof is replaced by reiterated affirmation; and almost all the terms which were the glory of reason carry with them now an atmosphere of contempt.
See what has happened for instance to the word "logic," to the word "controversy"; note such popular phrases as "No one yet was ever convinced by argument," or again, "Anything may be proved," or "That may be all right in logic, but in practice it is very different." The speech of men is becoming saturated with expressions which everywhere connote contempt for the use of the intelligence.
But the Faith and the use of the intelligence are inextricably bound up. The use of reason is a main part_or rather the foundation_of all inquiry into the highest things. It was precisely because reason was given this divine authority that the Church proclaimed mystery_that is, admitted reason to have its limits. It had to be so, lest the absolute powers ascribed to reason should lead to the exclusion of truths which the reason might accept but could not demonstrate. Reason was limited by mystery only more to enhance the sovereignty of reason in its own sphere.
When reason is dethroned, not only is Faith dethroned (the two subversions go together) but every moral and legitimate activity of the human soul is dethroned at the same time. There is no God. So the words "God is Truth" which the mind of Christian Europe used as a postulate in all it did, cease to have meaning. None can analyse the rightful authority of government nor set bounds to it. In the absence of reason, political authority reposing on mere force is boundless. And reason is thus made a victim because Humanity itself is what the Modern Attack is destroying in its false religion of humanity. Reason being the crown of man and at the same time his distinguishing mark, the Anarchs march against reason as their principle enemy.
—Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies, Chapter 7, "The Modern Attack"
Simple...they will STAGE a few more high-profile incidents....and then use the “war on women/racism/ shit to scream “it’s for the children”, loud and long. A HUGE majority will fall in line....Then....
So all the mass shootings in this country have been staged by the govt.? Wow.
Liberals are seldom correct on anything. That fact can be negated, however, if they control the entire debate and can quash any other opinion.
You don’t need to prove the moon is made of green cheese if you can shut up everyone who has proof otherwise.
Liberals are seldom correct on anything. That fact can be negated, however, if they control the entire debate and can quash any other opinion.
You don’t need to prove the moon is made of green cheese if you can shut up everyone who has proof otherwise.
“I’m sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we’re Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.”
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
(I guess Hillary 2.0 would shut down Hillary 1.0 as a “hater”.)
If you’re not homeschooling, that lesbian asking Hitlery stupid questions is raising your kid.
After ISIS attacks a Sunday school in Hammond, Indiana, the news media will tell us they bought their guns legally. That’ll be the tipping point.
I have been reading LIFE AND DEATH IN SHANGHI and am pained to report how close to the Chinese Cultural Revolution is our own country.
We cannot let a minority of people, and that’s what it is, it is a minority of people, hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people,” Clinton said during a live CNN town hall.
In other words, it’s not just firearms that are a problem but our viewpoint, our very thoughts.
So even if you just have a viewpoint of protecting our god-given and constitutionally affirmed commonsense civil rights, you are committing a Thought Crime.
*Needs fixinf*
Especially one who’d be taking the reins from an administration where she herself also flagrantly used the power of the federal government to get people it doesn’t like to stop saying things of which it does not approve.
Better. Kindly notify MS Hamm........:-)
That ONLY applies when an R is in office..
When it is a D—you get this—
“Politics stops at the waters edge”.
or
“We must stand with our president. Anyone who does not is a racist’.
or
“The only ones who disagree are haters and homophobes. They must be either “educated” or SILENCED...’
Or
The repubilcans are on a witch hunt—after another “phony scandal”.
And that will CONTINUE....and NO ONE will CARE—”peace, tolerance and understanding”. That is how we do things now..
Until the “RV”s begin to fall from the sky, anyway...(and I amk NOT talking about motor-homes!!)
The thought of a Hitlery Presidency terrifies me!
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