The state of free speech today
Bookworm on Oct 14 2008 at 10:53 am | Filed under: Free speech, Leftist morality
As I do, my in-laws, all of whom are McCain supporters, live in a liberal community. They periodically get together with their conservative friends and bemoan the fact that lawn signs are stolen or despoiled, or that cars bearing McCain-Palin bumperstickers are targets of vandalism (keying, smashed windows, etc.).
Along with the rest of us, they were unimpressed by MSM hysteria about a few nasty-mouthed audience members at McCain/Palin rallies. They know that, while those people get the attention, the reality is more consistent with Michelle Malkin’s photo essay showing the hatred routinely spewing from liberals towards conservatives generally, and Bush, Cheney, Palin and McCain specifically.
This video gives you a frightening insight into the abuse conservatives face when they exercise their right to free speech:
Unsurprisingly, my in-laws have been as cautious as I have been about the decision to put a McCain bumpersticker on the car. The resulting ruined paint job or scratched window can make free speech extremely expensive. Unlike me, though, my in-laws are clever and they came up with an alternative bumpersticker, which will soon decorate their car, and which they plan on distributing to their local McCain-Palin organizations. Isn’t this great?
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Brilliant. I like the design. Let´s hope it doesn´t cause the same reaction.
What does anyone know about blogtalkradio?? Apparently, it may have problems as well…
http://gto7.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/1899/
that cars bearing McCain-Palin bumperstickers are targets of vandalism (keying, smashed windows, etc.).
There’s a very simple solution to this. Just put a huge number of stickers on your car, drive your car to where you know such things happen, stake it out with a video camera in another car near it, and then when you capture the faces of the people damaging your property just go out and break their legs and arms if they can’t run away fast enough.
Your in-laws??
Mr. Bookworm is surrounded. Sooner or later, Bookworm, you all will wear him down and he’ll join the dark side . . .
Deana
>>Mr. Bookworm is surrounded. Sooner or later, Bookworm, you all will wear him down and he’ll join the dark side . . .>>
Nah. It’s the liberal flower power generation thing…rebellion against his parents. Won’t happen until they die and he no longer has anything to resist. Then maybe he’ll start thinking without being influenced by the need to be separate – different – from his parents.
When your parents die, you re-think lots of things. That’s when you really can’t go home again…
So, I see from the video that the fascist mobs are forming. Interesting times we live in.
Where do we get one?
Book,
If your in-laws are interested, this is a good site to start with.
http://www.cafepress.com/
Shop, sell or create what’s on your mind.
Just a side comment…
Isn’t it interesting that in the eight years of conservative ‘Clinton Derangement Syndrome’, there were few cases of vandalism and screeching hatred being spewed directly at liberals?
But after eight years of ‘Bush Derangement Syndrome’ we have been seeing widespread examples of intolerance streaming at us constantly? The viciousness of many among our Hollywood elite, among our liberal “journalists”, among feminists against Palin… so many of the instances are shocking! And the media view them with amusement or diffidence at best. Utterly dismissive at worst.
Now, at McCain rallies, you get a total of, I think, four objectionable comments, and suddenly the media are full of concern of a rising totalitarian response of rightwing hate and intolerance?
The truth is that conservatism remains grounded in its 50s resurgence, a period of time when ranting, raving and vandalism were sorely looked down upon.
The current round of liberalism is based solidly in the 60s counterrevolution, where to be authentic you had to be, at a minimum marching and shouting and being confrontational; and to be really authentic, you had to be taking over offices and holding people “hostage” until your demands were granted; setting fires and firebombs and other bombs guaranteed authenticity.
That is the reason why left-wing rage seems so acceptable, across the board, and right-wing rage seems so… odd and out of place. But it doesn’t explain the liberal media recoiling in fear and outrage at the rare example of right-wing excess, while excusing left-wing frequent excesses. The Infamous Media Double Standard: Alive And Well!
If enough people are interested, my in laws are looking into the possibility of selling them.
But it doesn’t explain the liberal media recoiling in fear and outrage at the rare example of right-wing excess, while excusing left-wing frequent excesses.
The explanations are simple. Republicans care about decency and obeying the law so producing examples of lawlessness forces the Republicans to convert much of their time and energy into defense and reform.
it is the same reason why Jihadists like to accuse the US of killing women and children since it forces the US to take time and effort away from Killing Jihadists to protecting themselves against such accusations. It is cause the US cares if they kill women and children while the jihadists don’t. If we accused the JIhadists of killing women and children, their supporters will just shrug their shoulders and continue killing with a smile on their faces, Mike.
If we accused the Left of lying and deceiving people into killing others, the Left wouldn’t care. But if they accused us of the same, we would be forced by our own standards of decency to look into whether such accusations have any truth.
This is the power of the attack, the power of offense, and the reason why violence is so extremely simple once broken down into such principles.