Closing The Borders To Free Speech

[Stan de SD]

  "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may
be led, like sheep, to the slaughter."
  -- George Washington
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Closing The Borders To Free Speech
By Harmony Grant
2-26-9
    As immigrants flood our nation in record numbers, many Americans
want to talk frankly about the situation. But could this someday be a
crime? Could honest talk about immigration someday be as illegal as
stabbing a Latino while yelling, "Wetback!?"
    It seems unthinkable that the government could deny open debate on
a subject like immigration. Yet a federal hate crimes bill before
Congress will ultimately do just that-crush freedom of speech to favor
"protected classes" (especially racial and religious minorities and
homosexuals) and criminalize so-called "hate speech" against them.
Such "hate speech" includes the most legitimate critiques of racial
difference, protected religions, cultures, or behaviors-and especially
immigration.
    Hate crime laws-already passed in 45 of our 50 states-ride a wave
of propaganda and misperception. Who isn't against hate? Who doesn't
want to stop crime? But the reality of these laws is dark as any
Orwellian tale. Hate crime laws intensify punishment for crimes
motivated by bias against specially protected groups. This would be
bad enough; our government representatives have no right to create
more (and less) protected classes, and they certainly have no right to
mine our thoughts and beliefs, then punish what they deem incorrect!
But hate crime laws get even worse. In hate law countries such as
Canada, they are quickly broadened to punish pure speech, even if no
crime is committed.

To understand the politicization of so-called "hate speech", one must
understand the narcissism and latent totalitarianism of the American
Left. Liberals believe that their (mistakenly assumed) intellectual
and moral superiority is axiomatic and beyond question. They believe
that all the problems of the world could be solved if only THEY were
put in charge, and given complete power and control over everyone's
lives. Because of their narcisstic views and inflated view of their
own relevance and importance in the world, they believe that the only
way their policies could ever fail is if bad people oppose them.

In the mind of the liberal, the worst people in the world aren't
murderers, despots, terrorists, or thugs, but the people who dare
question their motives and ideals. That's why the typical liberals has
far more visceral hatred towards a Rush Limbaugh or Sarah Palin or
George Bush than they do against an Osama Bin Laden or Mahmoud
Ahmedinijad. Why else does Keith Olbermann reserve his "Worst Person
in the World" epithet for conservative commentators? The WORST thing
to imaginable to a liberal is to question or doubt them, or bring up
examples of their failures. Liberals are obsessed with "hate crimes"
and the so-called "fairness doctrine" because their rampant egos and
sociopathic tendencies can't deal with questioning or open criticism.

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Post by Stan de SD
To understand the politicization of so-called "hate speech", one must
understand the narcissism and latent totalitarianism of the American

What about conspiracy? All you have to do to be convicted of conspiracy is to
talk about a crime. Shouldn't you be ranting about that?