Posted by Tina
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…
When the founders announced their intention to separate from the English crown, and to form a more perfect union, they established the American ideal. That ideal includes the right of individual citizens to speak freely and to join with others for that purpose. Difficult as it may be for some to accept, the freedom to speak and assemble, even when that speech is offensive, is absolutely necessary for our nation to survive and continue. If we are to be a civil society, tolerance of even obnoxious or inflammatory speech is necessary. Unfortunately, this ideal has been trashed in modern times. Over the decades the idea that voices should be silenced has sprung up. Politically correct speech, and thought, is the all that will be “allowed.” Progressives have turned the ideal of free speech on it’s head and chosen to practice a militant tactic of agitation and disruption to enforce it.
Patrisse Cullors, a leading force behind Black Lives Matter and organizers of the Chicago “shut it down protest, said, “…the protests, the disruptions will continue. Without disruption there is no progress.”
Progress toward what? A nation in which the people are required to walk and talk in lockstep? A nation in which power is realized through bullying, intimidation, and threats? A nation in which expression of differing or opposing opinions earn a negative label meant to isolate and destroy? Will yellow stars on our clothing be next?
Inflammatory language has been expressed by many politicians and spokespersons of every political stripe. People say outrageous thing…all people. Only one group that I’m aware of works outside of the American ideal to silence other voices and that is the radical progressives. They thrive on agitation; they celebrate when they succeed in stopping others from self expression.
Those who disapprove of the things Trump says are free to assemble and speak out against him. If they were honorable they would hire their own hall and alert the press. But when they come to Trumps rally with the intent to shut it down, to block his voice, to deny his followers their right to assemble and hear Trump speak, they no longer live by the ideals of our nation. In fact, they live by the tenets of revolutionaries who operate in nations where rights are not protected, honored, or backed up by the rule of law. They live under the ideal that “might makes right”. They live under an ideal of tyranny and oppression.
The radical left groups behind the Trump “protests” have no respect for our nations ideals. They have no respect for the rights of others. They deserve no sympathy for their disruptive, un-American choice to deny Trump and his supporters the right to speak and assemble.
Tyrants hate laughter, therefore a response to the “protesters” could be a full-throated belly laugh. A LOT of the PC BS deserves nothing but laughter from folks who are still able to reason.
And ridicule is sometimes much more effective than fisticuffs . . . . . .
Good advice, J., especially for those in attendance.
Understanding about what’s going on has to be put out again and again, though, or we lose the country.
Quotes from a person the radical left calls hero:
Hatred as the central element of our struggle! Hatred that is intransigent…hatred so violent that it propels a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him violent and cold-blooded killing machine…We reject any peaceful approach. Violence is inevitable. To establish Socialism rivers of blood must flow! The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we’ll destroy him! These hyenas are fit only for extermination. We must keep our hatred alive and fan it to paroxysm! The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims! – Che Guevara
The media has chosen to make hero’s of BLM and Moveon.org protesters and have labeled Trump the big villain. Hyperbolic statements and images by the left are largely ignored, the double standard continues.
When candidate Obama told his audience if they bring a knife we bring a gun he was not called out for saying “hateful” things that could incite violence. Everyone laughed, it was high times for the followers of Obama. When he told them to get in peoples faces and argue with them he wasn’t inciting violence or intolerance; he was just being a motivational leader…they loved it. when he called Sarah Palin a “pig” it was just humor…right? Nothing hateful about that. And no one on the left doubted his leadership qualities.
It’s okay for the left to bully, threaten and falsely accuse. It’s not deemed hateful. but this is wrong, and it’s been going on too long.
I keep thinking about the way Condi Rice, a black woman, was treated:
Dr. Rice was not running for office but neither were there loud machinations about the hateful left. No one asserted that this type of language and characterization was inflammatory or would incite violence.
Had the shoe been on the other foot it might have…because the left militant orchestrates protests and the nasty accusations that follow. Somehow they become the celebrities and victims of the day.
These people deserve our condemnation and derision, if not for the ill-mannered way they speak and act, for the un-American intolerance they display.
As Krauthammer told the weasel worded Trump suck up Bill O’Reilly today, there are two stories here.
One is the long history of the left using inexcusable inflammatory rhetoric and purposeful, disruptive, organized agitation to suppress free speech. The other is of a man with no moral compass who refuses to condemn violent actions from his supporters and actually encourages it.
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So what do we call the Boston Tea Party? The revolutionary War?
Ill Mannered way they speak? try a Trump Rally.
Dewey, we call it the formation of a free nation, the United States of America, that has given the ungrateful, ignorant students/protesters all the rights and privileges they need to succeed in life ALREADY! The special interest, poor me rantings and ravings are fostered and encouraged by corrupt radical leftists who profit from keeping the rabble angry, ignorant, maniacal and distracted. They point the mob in the direction of an “enemy” and then yell sick-em’.
Trump didn’t invent hyperbolic, inflammatory speech. The rabble has a long record of using such language. A woman was on Fox Business this morning. They interviewed her because her life was threatened and her home vandalized simply because she had Trump lawn signs in her yard. Shades of Ferguson, a purposely organized event that resulted in the rabble burning businesses and threatening police officers. Ferguson happened long before Trump became a candidate.
Since there has never been a big deal made out of speech before this attack on Trump is motivated by other than just some suddenly remembered morality. The double standard has NEVER been so obvious.
Hmmm, evidently Dewey has become a royalist.
Worthy related reading from Monica Crowley —
The left gets the band back together for 2016
Monica Crowley excellent as always!