"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."

Monday, June 17, 2013

SOMETIMES, THE MASK SLIPS AND LEFTISTS SAY EXACTLY WHAT THEY BELIEVE - AND IT'S SCARY

Me and some right-wing pals had dinner with an leftie old friend - (a left-winger who works at a famous NGO) - after (s)he went to a memorial for an older old friend - also a big-time leftie.

One of the events in the LATE leftie's life - which was prominently noted in the program of the memorial -  was the first big protest (s)he organized in the 50's: an effort to get the author Howard Fast permission to speak on the campus of an Ivy Legue University. The author of SPARTACUS had been a member of the CP and the administration banned him. At the time, they demanded the First Amendment rights!

One of the right-wingers - (A PERSON WHO HAD BEEN ON THE LEFT IN THE 1950's) - pointed out that IRONICALLY the left was trying to BAN conservative speakers from appearing almost anywhere - speakers like David Horowitz, Ann Coulter, Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller have been attacked and their scheduled venues and hosts threatened by leftists, even when they agree to appear in a structured debate.

The leftie who works at the famous NGO didn't bat an eye and immediately played the GODWIN'S LAW card: she said some people don't deserve to speak and that, for example, (s)he would ban a NAZI from speaking!

I pointed out that the First Amendment protects free speech - all speech, not just speech on the left, not just speech you like.

(S)he replied that she did not believe in free speech because some speech is bad, reprehensible and dangerous.

I said that speech you don't like and that is offensive is exactly speech that had to be protected. Besides: who gets to decide what speech is good and which is bad? It leads to tyranny.

I pointed out that while the left was attacking Coulter and Horowitz and trying to shut down their appearances on every campus and often disrupting their speeches - they were defending Ahmadinejad's appearance at Columbia University.

NO REPLY. CONVERSATION OVER.

(S)he wouldn't speak to me for hours - as if I'd uttered an offensive thing by defending the Bill of Rights!

(S)he had honestly - or by a slip of the tongue/slip of the mask - revealed ONCE AGAIN that the heart and soul of the left is basically, intrinsically and inextricably antagonistic of individual rights.

This is why a committed leftist should never be given any authority in American government: they should not be trusted with power.

Tricky, mendacious scum like Obama ONLY manage to get elected by lying and denying that they hate individual liberty.

And as soon as they get enough power, they diminish our liberty - as Obama has via Obamacare and the EPA and the IRS and the AP/FOX surveillance and the NSA surveillance.

Scratch a leftist and you find a person who likes tyranny.


3 comments:

Pastorius said...

A daily problem in my life is how to put up with these people even for a second. As you say, they are scum. How do I tolerate such scum? Only with God's help.

Reliapundit said...

OF COURSE THIS SCUM IS A MEMBER OF THE ACLU!

THE SUPPORT RIGHTS ONLY WHEN THEY DOVETAIL WITH THEIR SOCIALIST/STATIST AGENDA.

Always On Watch said...

I have a similar experience every Thanksgiving and Christmas at my neighbors' house. The mister (age 70) and the son there are wacko liberals; the missus and the daughter are conservatives.

We get into a debate every damn year since 2008. The mister and his son start the discussion every single time. And every year, the mister and his son stalk off when I present the FACTS. Facts will not persuade Lefties. Sheesh.