Source:The Daily Beast– “They may think shutting down NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly’s speech was standing up for their principles, but protecting respectful dialogue is as important as ever.” From The Daily Beast.
Source:FreeState MD
From The Daily Beast
“A Disgraceful Decision by NPR” O’Reilly
Fired National Public Radio analyst breaks down events following Muslim comments on ‘The O’Reilly Factor’”
Source:State of The Union– Juan Williams on The O’Reilly Factor in 2010, talking about being fired by taxpayer funded National Public Radio.
From the State of The Union
I hate the term “campus liberals” to refer to people are supposed to be Liberals even though they aren’t and sound more like Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez supporting and admiring Neo-Communists, than they do Liberals. I’ll get to what I mean by that later, because you simply can’t be a Liberal if you do not believe in free speech period. It would like someone whose a Conservative who doesn’t believe in private enterprise or capitalism. Or a Libertarian whose against the right to privacy and in favor of the War on Drugs. There’s a big reason the first amendment is the first amendment because it is the most important amendment we have and the most important freedom that we as people have.
Take free speech away and you might as well take away democracy and the freedom to assemble and the right to privacy, because one doesn’t work without the other with people being able to organize and speak their minds even if it offends people on the fascist Left or fascist Right. People who believe they are God (even if they are Atheists) and have all the answers and are right about everything to the point they believe they shouldn’t have any opposition.
So if you believe in censorship as a policy and that free speech only applies to people who you agree with, then you are not a Liberal. Just like someone whose against capitalism and wants the economy to be nationalized is not a Conservative. Or someone whose against the right to privacy and against freedom of choice is not a Libertarian.
My main response to Peter Beinart is that people who oppose right-wingers that they dislike right to free speech in America, aren’t Liberals because free speech is as liberal a value that exists anywhere in the world. But instead these young folks for the most part are left-wing fascists, or acting left-wing fascists. It’s Communists or Neo-Communists who are on the Far-Left perhaps everywhere in the world outside of Cuba and North Korea, who oppose free speech. Not Liberals because Liberals believe in liberal democracy. And free speech is as liberal as any value that you have in a liberal democracy.
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