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The American Thinker reports on remarks made by a Colorado ACLU Chapter head:
Loring Wirbel, board member of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Colorado chapter and co-chair of the ACLU’s Colorado Springs chapter, called for supporters of GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump to be shot before they vote for the billionaire businessman.
Comparing Trump to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, Wirbel wrote in his Facebook page:
The thing is, we have to really reach out to those who might consider voting for Trump and say, “This is Goebbels. This is the final solution. If you are voting for him I will have to shoot you before election day.” They’re not going to listen to reason, so when justice is gone, there’s always force, as Laurie would say.
And that’s not all. The Imam who supported Trump has been forced to step down from the position:
The Imam also said that more than 100 Houston, Texas, area Imams have been asked to leave because of a “political agenda.”
As reported by 12News in Beaumont, Texas, Imam Nidal Alsayyed says he received a late-night phone call from a board member asking for his resignation.
The local television station reported that the Imam said “they are being told to either support political correctness or leave.”
But it’s the conservatives that are bigoted, violent, and intolerant…right?
Related : The Green Gestapo (required reading)
QUENTIN LETTS: How I was vaporised by the BBC’s Green Gestapo after daring to mock the Met Office and global warming
“Earlier this year, I made a jaunty little Radio 4 programme called What’s The Point Of The Met Office?
“Last week, after a bizarre and focused lobbying campaign from environmental activists, the programme was removed from the BBC’s iPlayer playback facility.
“To adapt Orwell, What’s The Point Of The Met Office? became an un-programme.
“One moment it was there, available to licence fee-payers to hear at their convenience. The next? Ker-whack! …
“The rumpus, ignited by a few eco-activists and fuelled by a mad BBC bureaucracy, has demonstrated the sort of foot-stamping insistence on orthodoxy not seen during peacetime since Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth in the 17th century.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3355441/QUENTIN-LETTS-vaporised-BBC-s-Green-Gestapo.html
Perfect!
We could make a list of people the left has attempted to un-person. It’s amazing how they cannot abide an opposing position. That need to control is a mighty task master.
They celebrated Hanukkah at the White House recently. The President chose activist Susan Talve to light the Menorah and she chose to un-person Jews and insult Israel. “I stand here to light these lights to say no the darkness of Islamophobia, and Homophobia and Transphobia.”
She also ranted on about guns, Black Lives Matter, ,immigrants, refugees, “the fires of toxic nuclear waste.” Calling for “justice for Palestine,” she ended her version of a Hanukkah celebration with the words, ” Ins’Allah, Ins’Allah” (Allah Willing).
It’s the inclusive and tolerant party.
Frontpage Magazine has the story.
I was curious so I googled…Deseret News:
Susan Talve’s remarks definitely seem inappropriate and off-topic, but you left out the fact that she herself is Jewish and a rabbi. I don’t see how her remarks “un-person” Jews, but I do agree they were inappropriate for this ceremony.
That ACLU leader talking about shooting Trump supporters is crazy and definitely needs to be forced to resign.
Free speech doesn’t really exist among clergy–I’m sure there have been plenty of pastors who have been asked to resign by fellow clergy members for taking politically unpopular positions, so I don’t really see a threat to free speech from this happening to an imam.
The ACLU leader did step down.
Free speech is still alive in the US for some…
Kids Scream “I Want to Kill Him!” While Beating Trump Piñata to “Stop Hate”
Does it get any more ridiculous or ironic?
Conservative college student movement is growing to defend free speech on campuses.
College Student Takes a Stand Against Campus Free Speech Policy, Sues School:
“A student at an Arizona community college is challenging her school’s so-called “speech zone,” arguing the policy “severely limited” her right to free speech and due process.
Brittany Mirelez, a freshman at Paradise Valley Community College in Maricopa County, Ariz., was kicked out of the designated speech zone in October for failing to obtain permission to use the space.
Mirelez had set up a table to converse with students about a group she is trying to start called the Young Americans for Liberty. The group, which has branches nationwide, advocates for limited government and liberty-minded candidates.
Originally, Mirelez said a Student Life official granted her permission, but shortly after setting up her table, a different official told her she had to leave because she didn’t get approval to use the space 48 hours in advance.
But two months later, The Daily Signal has exclusively learned that Mirelez filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Arizona against Dr. Paul Dale, president of Paradise Valley Community College, along with two other campus officials.
In the lawsuit, Mirelez alleges “the fear of arrest or punishment severely limited [her] constitutionally-protected expression on campus.”
“This is unnecessary and unconstitutional,” Mirelez said, arguing her free speech shouldn’t be confined to a particular space on campus.
In the lawsuit, her attorney argued that because Paradise Valley Community College receives public funds, “the First Amendment rights of free speech and press extend to campuses of state colleges.”
Mirelez is not seeking specific monetary damages, but she is asking the school and its officials to cover her legal fees and more importantly, to change its campus “speech zone” policy.
According to court documents, the speech zone “comprises less than 0.26 percent of the entire Paradise Valley Community College campus.”
“Colleges are supposed to be a place where ideas are freely shared, not gagged or suppressed,” Tyson Langhofer, an attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing Mirelez in her lawsuit, told The Daily Signal. “College really works against its own purpose when it places restrictive speech rules above freedoms that the First Amendment guarantees to students and all other citizens.”
Free speech zones are a contested policy among college campuses, and often find themselves subject to lawsuits.
This is not the first lawsuit that members of Young Americans for Liberty have brought forth against speech codes. In March, three students from Dixie State University filed a similar lawsuit, alleging the university refused to approve promotional flyers about Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara. According to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, those flyers “disparage[d] and “mock[ed]” those individuals.
On Sept. 17, Dixie State settled with the students, agreeing to revise the campus speech policies and pay $50,000 in damages and attorney’s fees.”
http://dailysignal.com/2015/12/08/college-student-takes-a-stand-against-campus-free-speech-policy-sues-school/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=saturday&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRovuazMZKXonjHpfsX57%2BoqUKK1gIkz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcFrMbzYDBceEJhqyQJxPr3NLtQN191pRhLiDA%3D%3D
Free Speech……..
Hum…… When Bashir made the mistake of saying he wanted to poop in Palins mouth… he was fired.
When Peters recently called PBO a pussy on Fox he was onlysuspended.
Free Speech in media is gone. Ed Shultz Fired for telling truth on TPP and trade deals.
So why does the right protect the right to lie as free speech and not the right to tell truth when it affects their donors profits?
I say make news for public service and factual again and let them all say what they want within factual guidelines…..can you agree with that?
In the meantime acting to request someone is fired by the people is free speech as well right?
Hypocrisy at best.
Dewey there’s a difference between an employee and a guest commentator.
Of course I agree that journalists should constantly be seeking the facts and reporting the truth.
Unlike you, I don’t think I have the power to make it so by decree.
I don’t get your assertion of hypocrisy; I see no evidence in your comment.