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Bari Weiss: You Are the Last Line of Defense
TheFreePress.com ^ | November 13, 2023 | Bari Weiss

Posted on 11/19/2023 8:02:45 AM PST by Twotone

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If it's easier to listen than read, the video of this speech is at the link. About 40 minutes.
1 posted on 11/19/2023 8:02:45 AM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

The horrible events of 10/7 cannot be a license to urinate on liberty, censor the internet even more, spend money we don’t have and get drug into wars that are unsustainable.

Americans need to rally to the Constitution and Personal Liberty and not be gaslit into a raging Witch Hunting Inquisitionist Mob.


2 posted on 11/19/2023 8:12:28 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: Twotone

Fight. Fight for Israel. Fight for Jewish people. Fight for free speech. Fight evil.


3 posted on 11/19/2023 8:12:40 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: Twotone

Bkmk


4 posted on 11/19/2023 8:14:03 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: yldstrk

... and fight until the enemy is defeated, not just until the enemy is merely weakened, because the enemy will re-arm and return ... especially in a religious conflict that has lasted for millennia.


5 posted on 11/19/2023 8:20:44 AM PST by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: Twotone

Islam is an existential threat to humanity. It is evil incarnate, masquerading as a religion. A religion transparently committed to the proposition of killing or subjugating any and all it sees as an enemy.

Just because they did not try to murder you yesterday does not mean they don’t wish (and intend) to murder you.

I truly learned everything I need to know about islam on 911.


6 posted on 11/19/2023 8:21:47 AM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now... )
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“Her husband, Ted Olson, has among the most impressive résumés you’ll find. But most important to me and my family: he argued in support of gay marriage in front of the Supreme Court.”

I kinda stopped reading after that.


7 posted on 11/19/2023 8:22:18 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Twotone

The solution is straightforward. These barbarians have to be eliminated from the Earth at all costs. No civilized people can survive with these savages loose to murder.

There can be no surrender. No ceasefire. No negotiations.
There is nothing to negotiate with murderous savages.

You cannot trade “land for peace.” You can’t trade ceasefires for hostages. They will just take more hostages.

There can be no safe harbor on Earth for these barbarians.

They have to be completely exterminated for decent people to survive.

Civilization is on the line.


8 posted on 11/19/2023 8:23:57 AM PST by Gnome1949
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To: Nextrush

Nothing Bari Weiss said was inclined towards a witch hunt. She’s saying we need to speak up & not allow ourselves to be intimidated, as well as fighting those who are trying to destroy western civilization. And she’s realizing who her real friends are. Nice to see a Lefty begin to wake up.


9 posted on 11/19/2023 8:25:07 AM PST by Twotone
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Well, you should read the rest of it. I know certain things are off-putting, but we’re in a time of strange bed-fellows & what she has to say is important.


10 posted on 11/19/2023 8:26:51 AM PST by Twotone
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To: sauropod

A tremendous speech and article.


11 posted on 11/19/2023 8:27:39 AM PST by dvan (Send Them Home!Napolatono)
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To: aquila48

That’s exactly what I did.


12 posted on 11/19/2023 8:29:03 AM PST by Maris Crane
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Barbara Olson was Ted’s THIRD wife. Sanctioning “gay marriage” was a natural course of events for someone who takes the institution of marriage less seriously than the purchase of a home appliance.

I’m still trying to figure out what Bari Weiss is trying to say here. If anything, we should see the events here in the U.S. since 10/7 as further evidence that we should get out of these foreign entanglements entirely.

13 posted on 11/19/2023 8:30:51 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Twotone

Nothing Bari Weiss said was inclined towards a witch hunt. She’s saying we need to speak up & not allow ourselves to be intimidated,


Taking Bari’s advise, I chose to speak up and not read the article that said she, Bari, was thrilled about Barbara’s husband defending something with which do not agree.

And by the way, I was not aware that Barbara’s husband did that.


14 posted on 11/19/2023 8:34:12 AM PST by Maris Crane
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To: Twotone

Bill Maher considers Bari Weiss a “Conservative” I hate to rush to conclusions but understand Conservatives cannot be hijacked by the Krauthammer’s and Kondracke’s like we were in the past7.

We ended up less free in the end the post 9/11 security state created by anger towards an enemy defined by Political and Media Elites.

And the road to the Tyrannical Trap of January 6th began on 9/11/2001.

10/7/2023 cannot be an event that leads us further away from the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.


15 posted on 11/19/2023 8:34:25 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: Twotone

Excellent, excellent post.

This struck me in particular:

“When antisemitism moves from the shameful fringe into the public square, it is not about Jews. It is never about Jews. It is about everyone else. It is about the surrounding society or the culture or the country. It is an early warning system—a sign that the society itself is breaking down. That it is dying.”

This is because the God and the Law of the Jews - revealed in more detail and then spread through Christ and brought to its mystical fulness - is the foundation of Western civilization. In fact, any place Christianity is found apparently now counts as “Western” and thereby also Jewish, so it’s not a geographically bound concept. And that’s why the evildoers hate “Western Civilization” when they hate Jews.

And “Western Civilization” is all of us...Jews and non-Jews alike.


16 posted on 11/19/2023 8:44:03 AM PST by livius
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To: Twotone

Greatspeech


17 posted on 11/19/2023 8:57:16 AM PST by silverleaf (Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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But most important to me and my family: he argued in support of gay marriage in front of the Supreme Court.

Oh did he, now? What a thoroughly disgusting, evil man.

18 posted on 11/19/2023 9:00:07 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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But most important to me and my family: he argued in support of gay marriage in front of the Supreme Court.

The damage done to mankind by Godless nihilism is far worse than anything Hamas brings to the table.

19 posted on 11/19/2023 9:06:24 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Twotone

A few PC bits here and there but overall she has given a great speech. Thanks for posting it.


20 posted on 11/19/2023 9:16:43 AM PST by Yardstick
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