Posted on 04/24/2003 4:52:23 AM PDT by ConservativeVoice
|
Tov B. Brog © 2003
The Anti-Choice Left By Tov B. Brog |
|
Every America has the right to states his views, no matter how onerous they may be. By the same token, the rest of us have every right to refuse to listen. How best to refuse to listen to an actor, actress, writer or artist? Don?t go to their plays, pay to see their movies, buy their books or hang their pictures on your wall. That?s our choice. Don?t silence them! That wouldn?t be right. That would put us at the same level as the leftist fanatics that prevented Benjamin Netanyahu from speaking at Berkley. Remember that? What a fine example of advocating choice and freedom of expression, eh? I don't want to shout them down. I just don't want to give them my money. Why is the left so ready to label a conservative boycott of their artistic products as ?McCarthyism?, when the examples of similar leftist actions are so common? They reserve to themselves the decision for politically motivated action, but would deny it to their opponents? Why do they condemn Nike for using inexpensive labor in Central America and Asia, refusing to buy that company?s products, without considering the denial of choice they are foisting on the poor laborers that see American companies as a way to achieve a higher standard of living? What about school choice? The left, in the thrall of the teachers? unions, opposes vouchers that give poor American families the choice to send their kids to far better schools than the products of Great Society socialism that pass for centers of education in our inner cities. And taxes? President Bush is advocating tax cuts that will give most of us, not just the very rich, a choice in how we spend our hard earned dollars. Where are the liberals on that one? Stupid question. They?re against it, drumming up the same old, tired, class warfare arguments, whereby the middle class magically ascends to the status of ?rich?. How about Augusta? Are the screeching shrews of NOW at all interested in protecting the free choice allowed a private club in deciding who should be counted among its members? Never in a thousand years. Let?s not forgot the Second Amendment. Everything the liberal anti-gun lobby can do to restrict our choice in that arena is being done. Heaven forbid we allow common, law-abiding, citizens to choose to own a firearm. Did I say ?heaven forbid?? Excuse me, that?s another choice the left would rather we not exercise. Can?t choose to worship the god of your choice, at least not in public. Might offend an atheist, who is, of course, allowed to choose to be an atheist and shove it in our faces. I don?t even have room here for all the cases of political-correctness-run-amuck on our college campuses where conservative students and faculty are restricted from the free expression of their opinions by the very same tactics that Tim Robbins is pinning on the right. What about the city employee in Norfolk, Virginia who was told to take an American flag off his wall, while our troops fought their way to Baghdad, because it was a partisan political statement? Where was his choice? It?s not as if he put up a picture of Hitler and started wearing a swastika armband. Apparently some liberals liken pride in Old Glory to latent Fascism. The left, epitomized by Tim Robbins, condemns choice; unless it is their choice, in which case it is, logically, no choice at all for those who disagree with them. At the core of their reasoning is an elitist ideology that claims first, and only, right to the truth. They know what is best! They know what is right! They define the moral high ground! The rest of us are peasants, slouching Neanderthals, which have to be guided by our betters, the moral purists who elevate the hypocritical liar Michael Moore and the pedophile Roman Polansky to the status of cultural icons. They?re joined by their fellow travelers, who gleefully call for the deaths of our own soldiers, while sitting in the comfortable safety of the halls of Columbia University. The only choice the left feels comfortable with is a woman?s right to choose abortion. Here the liberals swan dive right off the cliff of reason onto the sharp rocks of ideological extremism. They?re so far gone on this one that the California chapter of NOW issued a letter apologizing to Scott Peterson for being indicted for a double murder; his unborn, full-term, son being the second victim. So desperate are they to maintain the choice to kill, that they?ll choose sides with a man who may very well have brutally murdered his pregnant wife and his own child. They have since stepped back from that appalling position, but only under intense public pressure. Any psychologist will tell you that the first response to a question is the most honest. So, except for abortion, the liberal left despises choice. By extension, they despise all of us, the American mainstream. What did Michael Moore say from the podium at the Academy Awards? ?We are against this war.? Which ?we? was he referring to? It wasn?t my ?we?. I?m sure, in his little mind, it was the American people, in spite of support for the war topping 70% at the time. Of course, what do polls mean? That?s only the people?s opinion, the clouded reasoning of the duped masses. The ?real? America, meaning whoever goes to the same cocktail parties as Michael Moore and Tim Robbins, holds the Golden Scepter of Truth, handed down to them by the same group of traitorous yahoos that touted the joys of living under Stalin in the thirties. Here we are giving the Iraqi people the first real choice they?ve had in their history. A million Shiites have been marching in Karballa for the first time in thirty years. They?re exercising so much choice that they even feel free to condemn our ?occupation? in the face of a massive military presence. We, of course, are allowing them to finally act as free citizens. You know what? This nation of ours, under the leadership of George W. Bush, has so effectively seized the moral high ground that all the left can do is sputter, squeal and whine. We?ve demonstrated what real choice is. The liberals are being revealed for what they are: elitist ideological dictators who?ve lost sight of the true meaning of freedom. |
|
|
Amen
Related ArticlesThe Adolescent Left
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: April 23, 2003; Author: Bernard ChapinAre Americans Stupid Enough To Follow The Lead Of Anti-War Professors In 2004?
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: April 23, 2003; Author: Mary MostertWillful Ignorance: The antiwar Left just doesn't get reality
Source: National Review Online; Published: April 23, 2003; Author: Mark GoldblattOut of the 'Quagmire'
Source Insight; Published:| April 14, 2003; Author: J. Michael WallerThe Forces Of Anti-Americanism Seek To Intimidate The Press
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: April 11, 2003; Author: Cliff KincaidThe Relativist Left and the War: The antiwar movement is a product of the Left's refusal to reason
Source: FrontPageMagazine.com; Published: April 8, 2003; Author: Elizabeth NicksonAntiwar Greens Given Orders To Use 'Any Means Necessary'
Source: Insight Magazine; Publishe: April 3, 2003; Author: Michelle MalkinDavid Horowitz: The war refutes the opposition
Source: Jewish World Review; Published: April 3, 2003 - 30 Adar II, 5763; Author: David HorowitzFoundation cash funds antiwar movement
Source: The Washington Times: Published: April, 2, 2003; Author: Julia DuinGreens and Socialists Unite to Oppose War
Source: CNSNews.com Commentary from the National Anxiety Center; Published: April 1, 2003; Author: Alan CarubaDoes Columbia University Hate America?
Source: CNSNews.com; Published: April 01, 2003; Author: | Daniel Pipes and Jonathan Calt Harris'Anti-American' - Noble Ideas, But Shameful Actions
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: | March 19, 2003; Author: Paul E. ScatesThe Left's Dream
Source: CNSNews.com; Published: March 18, 2003; Author: Daniel PipesThe Fifth Column Left Declares War
Source: Townhall.com; Published: March 18, 2003; Author: David HorowitzAnti-War Protests Have Big Price Tags
Source: FOX News; Published: March 18, 2003; Author: Dan SpringerThe left /fascist 'peace' coalition
Source: The Washington Times; Published: March 17, 2003; Author: Martin GrossLeftwing "Peace" Saboteurs, Anarchists go Shopping
Source: www.frontpagemag.org; Published: March 17, 2003; Author: Brian SayreAsk Dr. Ridgley: What's the Post-War Left to Do?
Source: CNSNews.com; Published: March 14, 2003; Author: Stanley K. Ridgley, Ph.D.ANSWER's Steering Committee: Traitors, and Commies, and Jew-haters - oh my!
Source: FrontPageMagazine.com; Published: March 12, 2003; Author: Ryan Anderson O’Donnell"Workers World Party", Other Leftist Orgs Paying For Protests
Source: Fox News Channel; Published: March 12, 2003Where were critics during Kosovo?
Source: Washington Times; Published: March 11, 2003; Author: Larry ElderUseful Idiots And Useless Arguments: The Depressing Iraq War Debate
Source: Toogood Reports; published: March 10, 2003; Author: W. James Antle IIIAnti-War Activists Map Their Strategy (FR mention)
Source: AP; Published: March 9, 2003; Author: Jeff DonnAnti-War Or Anti-Reality?
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: March 5, 2003; Author: Paul E. ScatesBarbara Stanley: America: Land Of The Free, Even Free To Be Traitors
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: February 28, 2003; Author: Barbara StanleyCongress Mulls Probe of Communists' Ties to Appeasement Movement, Radical Islam
Source: NewsMax.com; Published: February 28, 20003; Author:| Wes VernonExposing the Anti-War Movement, Part I: MoveOn.org
Source: Citizens for Fair and Balanced Funding; Published: February 28, 2003; Author: David WareIf antiwar protesters succeed (by Iraqi citizen)
Source: CS Monitor; Publisghed: February 26, 2003; Author: unsigned opinionMarxist Groups in the Anti-War Movement
Source: CNSNews.com; Published: February 25, 2003; Author: Paul M. WeyrichAnti-war Protestors: Shades Of Stupidity
Source: CNSNews.com; Published: February 21, 2003; Author: Rachel MarsdenWho's Paying for It All? [re: anti-war demostrations]
Source: INSIGHT magazine; Published: February 18, 2003; Author: J. Michael WallerAnti-War Protestors Are Warmongers for Our Enemies
Source: CNSNews.com; Published: February 11, 2003; Author: Alex EpsteinThe Peace Movement’s Mumia Connection
Source: National Review; Published:| January 28, 2003; Author: Byron YorkReds Still [re: The story no one wants to hear about the antiwar movement]
Source: National Review; Published: January 23, 2003; Author: Byron York
The Washington Post was using its massive financial resources and political clout to try and stamp out a small, privately run, website called Free Republic?
...just as an aside here, Martha Burk's outfit is called The National Council of Women's Orginizations....sounds pretty lofty huh?....in reality it's Martha and two volunteers operating out of the spare bedroom of a townhouse.....but yet, incrediably she managed to whip up a firestorm of publicity....David Horowitz is correct when he says the Left is much more adept in manipulating the press than the Right.....he's also correct when he says we must study their techniques to fight back effectively....
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.