Hortmage wrote:Gosh, RH, at ease!!!
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Just messin' with you, RH. And, as a true-blue American patriot, you'll defend my right to say that to the death, correct? Or is the only "free" speech the type that's "approved" ....
Jeez, of course you can say what you want, even if I don't approve. What do you think I am-- a college president?
Hmph. Where were all the free speech types when leftist colleges started establishing all these "speech codes?" Or when mobs of frothing leftists stole and burned the entire run of a school newspaper-- because it printed an ad that opposed the Reparations movement? Or when high school and college administrations actively obstructed conservative speakers-- or when the college "peace and love" flower children screamed obscene epithets at conservative speakers, in an attempt to disrupt their assembly?
Or when leftists e-mail and snailmail death threats to conservative public figures? When flaming homosexual activists rioted on the front steps of a church, pelting the windows with eggs, ripping down the American flag and replacing it with a gay-activist banner, blocking access to the front door, and threatening to burn down the church after everyone left?
Where were those afraid for American liberty when activists with more influence and money than knowledge lobbied for the disarming of the American populace? When social activists cranked the tax rate up higher and higher? When people blithered about how the government needed to wipe everyone's arse, and that the productive working class should pay for the wet-naps? When our borders were turned to swiss cheese by bleeding hearts, and our "leader" bent over and took it up the cornhole from the Chinese in exchange for campaign funds?
Now, when our taxes are finally being lowered again, when our national security is finally back on the table, when self-reliance and autonomy are finally being acknowledged as vital traits of the American conscience, when our leader finally has the brass balls to say that treating people differently based on their color is still unconstitutional no matter which color is getting the favoritism, when more people than ever are openly speaking their mind about our nation's policies--- and it's not all coming from the biased, anointed few on the Left, when we are no longer throwing other people's money at people who want to kill us and instead rendering unto them the ass-beating they so righteously deserve---
Only NOW do the Oppression-is-Nigh fearmongers step forward and begin wailing.
What is happening here? I'll tell you what's happening here-- this is not a loss of freedom, it is a *return* of freedom.
Up until September of 2001, the left wing had free rein and near total monopoly of the public conciousness. Then four planes crashed, two towers crumbled, and the alarm clock finally went off. 250,000,000 people looked around, heard the talking heads *still* trying to piss on America's leg even as they were pulling human remains from the rubble, and said "this is a pile of shit !"
As one sage put it, the potential imminence of violent death sharpens the mind marvelously. What these alarmists witnessed was not the crushing of all opposing viewpoints, not the silencing of dissent, but the vast, silent majority of the American populace, heretofore silently suffering the ongoing rush of leftist sewage, standing up and making their voice heard. The majority of American people *liked* their country, dammit, and they *liked* their freedom and their rights, and by damn they were sick of having to listen to celebrities, "intellectuals", spoiled college snots and foreign dipshits bagging on it.... and they were REAL sick of politicians selling us all down the river for a bagful of international touchy-feely and a handful of votes from gullible, welfare-bribed mush-heads. And furthermore they didn't give a steaming dog turd on a biscuit what the goddamn french or the Useless Nations thought.
And by GOD they told all of them so!
It never sits well with bohemians and closet socialists when the common people tell them they're full of it. And that's precisely what had happened. So, for lack of anything useful to do--- like applying for jobs as speed bumps-- they accused the people who'd quit listening to them of being "sheep," and started squealing that President Bush was out to march everyone into internment camps, that we were all doomed to a totalitarian state in Big Brother, USA...... in other words accusing the Right of what the Left had been trying to accomplish for 30 years with bread and circuses and bureaucratic bloat.
No concentration camps thus far. Though most of the rest of the nation is ready to vote all of Hollywood off the island.....
Angry? Combative? Up in arms? Me? NAaaaaaaah.
Just a little sick of people who don't have a damned clue what oppression *is*, screaming about how we're becoming a police state because the free ride is finally over.
This is far too interesting to shut down.
