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When I was in high school, Pink Floyd sang "we don't need no thought control"and "The Wall" was our anthem. What happened to that ethic? Is free expression under assault now more than ever?
1 posted on 04/11/2013 8:50:45 AM PDT by Aspenhuskerette
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To: Aspenhuskerette

I hear you. Now it’s “Group Think” masquerading as intellectual enlightenment.


2 posted on 04/11/2013 8:54:14 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Aspenhuskerette

I’ve really come to despise the word “tolerance”, as most of those who use it don’t understand it. First, they think it means “acceptance”, which it doesn’t. Second, they believe that tolerance in itself is a virtue, which it isn’t. In fact, there are many intolerable things in this world, which should remain intolerable. People who tolerate everything aren’t tolerant, they are apathetic.


3 posted on 04/11/2013 8:57:33 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Aspenhuskerette

Diversity does not mean diversity of thought.


8 posted on 04/11/2013 9:15:12 AM PDT by WriteOn (Truth)
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To: Aspenhuskerette

The left does one thing efficiently: destroying good people.


9 posted on 04/11/2013 9:23:55 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Pi$$ed off yet?)
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To: Aspenhuskerette

sure it’;s under assault- hell- the secodn amendment is under assault too- We are well on our way toweard becoming another N Korea- China- Iran- That is how dictatorships begin- assault the rights to own guns, then assault the free press and first amendment, makign it a rime to speak ill of the govenrment (REMEMBER that our ‘dear leader’ requested peopel to report to the hwitehouse website any ‘suspicious talk’ that they encountered on the internet? And when he called on peopel to spy on neighbors to report anythigtn ‘suspiscious?’ We are becommign hte soviet union- hell- we even have an 800 page document written up by the EU that we use to determien land use here in OUR coutnry for crying out loud!


10 posted on 04/11/2013 9:24:49 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: Aspenhuskerette

A hallmark of the left is “tolerance for me but not for thee”.


13 posted on 04/11/2013 9:44:46 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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Political Correctness: Intolerance Tyranny Masquerading as Tolerance
15 posted on 04/11/2013 9:50:48 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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Perhaps prevailing attitudes emanating from Washington have helped to create the tyrannical climate toward open inquiry, freedom of conscience, and free expression of religious belief--all of which are protected by "the People's" Constitution from the purview of their elected officials.

Youth of the nation, including those at Johns Hopkins, have, perhaps, been influenced in their so-called "political correctness" demands of what might be called "progressive purity" of expression by Executive policies and actions over the period of their stay at Johns Hopkins.

David Barton, on his Wallbuilders.com web site, posted an editorial documenting some actions by the President and current Administration which could possibly influence young minds not trained to be vigilant about their religious liberty and freedom of expression.

Readers might benefit from other editorials in the Issues and Articles Section of Barton's "Wallbuilder" site.

On that site, Wallbuilders provides reprints of original writings and speeches from the founding period which document the intention of the Founders and Framers of our Constitution that, in accord with the scriptural quotation on the Liberty Bell, their actions were to "Proclaim liberty throughout the land." Their Declaration of Independence from a government which, like today's, seems intent on imposing its coercive will on "We, the People," and the Constitution which became the Supreme Law of the Land, were intended to protect "the People" from the government, not to impose a politically-correct limit on freedom of expression or religious belief and practice.

16 posted on 04/11/2013 11:40:10 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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