Posted on 08/30/2017 9:36:00 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
August of 2017 might be recorded as the date the ground shifted under the feet of defenders of constitutional liberty and freedom of assembly in the United States. The nation’s newspaper establishment is now providing a public platform for normalizing the claim that the Constitution’s protections for freedom of the press and freedom of speech are inadequate weapons for winning the fight against a “rising tide of racism,” and therefore, violence may not only be justified, it may be the only moral alternative.
Thus sayeth the lords of “Antifa,” the newly respectable priests (and armed enforcers) of vigilante justice.
On Sunday, August 27, the Denver Post gave front page status on its weekly “Perspective” opinion section to a Project Syndicate column by Australian writer Peter Singer. Project Syndicate is a Bill Gates and George Soros-funded newspaper syndication service based in Prague. Professor Singer asks this question in a bold headline: “Is violence the way to fight racism?”
In seeking the answer to this ominous question, Professor Singer does not marshal quotes or arguments from John Stuart Mill, Louis Brandeis, or Ruth Bader Ginsberg. He instead quotes favorably only one authority, the “Antifa” crusaders who have been heavily involved in the violent “counter-protests” in Charlottesville, Berkeley, San Francisco, Phoenix, and elsewhere. The mission and business of Antifa are to disrupt and terrorize rallies, speakers, and events it chooses to label as right-wing, racist, neo-Nazi, or just plain unprogressive. Last weekend in Berkeley, 100 black-clad and masked Antifa terrorists brutally attacked the 1000 peaceful participants in a “Rally Against Hate” at Martin Luther King, Jr., Civic Park.
Anyone with half an education in 20th century Soviet and Maoist techniques of oppression will recognize this as a totalitarian argument to silence dissent.
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Free Speech gave you Trump and Brexit.
The Elites have decreed that this Free Speech business has to stop.
Well the elites are going to get some serious Free Speech in their faces. I was born and raised a free American and they can take their suppression of my rights and shove it where the moon don’t shine.
What racism on the Right?
The Right is now the victim of Racism.
These folks are certifiable.
“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
The tension here is slowly building. (I know, why don’t I just say the truth :) Sooner or later the “next step” will be taken which will likely involve extreme, deadly violence prolly involving explosives or guns.
I sincerely hope that when this happens, and the Good Lord willing it won’t, the event is recorded by multiple people, the recordings instantly go viral and the authorities arrest all involved. Then the courts should be very aggressive with the law breakers.
This must be stopped for the love of our precious country. The law breakers must quickly learn that the rule of law will be enforced with a vengeance.
I have nothing against free speech. I have everything against mob violence.
Free Speech today takes place on the internet, and all of Silicon Valley is onboard with this agenda.
The next Lexington and Concord needs to take place there.
Did Tancredo drop off the radar for about 6 years?
bfl
He is a strong defender of animal rights ... so long as the animals aren't human.
Trump has actually set us up for a very winnable fight here. We just organize peaceful, patriotic, pro-Trump marches and rallies where show up with MAGA hats and American flags (preferably but not necessarily without a bunch of self-professed, probably government informant neo-Nazi’s and white supremacists running around) under the banner of “free speech”. Film what happens next. Rinse and repeat until the Democratic Party is begging us to stop.
If Antifa says that violence is the answer, lets see how bloody they are prepared to get.
THIS is what the Oathkeepers should be showing up to protect.
I find it interesting that newspapers, tv and other media that work in free speech/free expression are lecturing us about the evils of such things.
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