Clementine
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Liberals have gotten so bad about trying to squelch free speech. Colleges refuse to allow any speakers who aren't avid liberals. Protesters aren't content to merely carry signs around Republican rallies, they insist on blocking highways and trying to shut the whole rally down. The IRS went after conservatives. The media can no longer be relied on to report facts and instead have become mouth pieces for liberal administrations.
Liberals used to defend and seek to protect whistle blowers and protesters against the government. When a liberal is in office, suddenly those things are treated like crimes. Any criticism over Obama's liberal views are called racist. The left uses words, such as 'racist', 'greedy', 'denier', or 'birther' in order to ridicule and shut down free speech rather than debate. They must fear losing in an honest debate and that is why they will do anything to prevent it. They prefer talking points and name calling instead of explaining themselves. If you ask Al Gore to back up any of his claims, all you get is "There is no debate." What they say goes. Period. Even scientists who once supported the global warming crowd find themselves in hot water when they point out faulty data. I guess the left is serious about this no debate thing.
Over-regulation has resulted in so many bullshit laws that virtually anyone is likely to be in violation of something. This is an age-old tactic of dictators. They like having the ability to arrest any person who gets in their way and having a pile of laws in their arsenal makes this easy. If nothing else, the government can kill you without any arrests, charges or convictions. If any of the administration's enemies suddenly disappear, this may explain it.
For most, they just take all the person's money and ruin them that way. The over-used civil forfeiture says that if you have cash it must mean you did something illegal. They simply take all your money and call it good with no arrest and no charges. The cop is judge and jury on the spot. After your money is taken, you are free to go. But, be warned, there are thousands of other reasons they could hurt you. This is the new America.
Liberals today seem to be against people being wealthy, owning property, free speech, having any pride in our country, secure borders, national security, real education, immigrant assimilation, laws protecting the sanctity of our voting system, morals, and liberty to live the way you want or question government when you feel it necessary. The new government is not by the people, for the people. It's against the people. The 'we' versus 'them' has never been more true and it's liberals leading the way for an authoritarian government. The government has become something to fear and that is what tyranny is all about. No politician fears the public. They mock us. They know they have given themselves unlimited power over us and that gives them confidence to do as they please without fear of retribution. Just look at Hillary.
"You don’t have to go back to the days of the Enlightenment, John Locke and the French Revolution (as Mr. Holmes, a former U.S. assistant secretary of state, does in his commendably thorough book) to see this trend at work. Consider the following quote from a famous politician. See if you can guess who said it and when:
"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say, ‘We are Americans, and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration’."
John McCain talking about President Obama? Nope. That’s Hillary Clinton. She said it in 2003, in reference to the George W. Bush administration.
But as they say, that was then, and this is now. Apparently it’s patriotic to express your opposition to President Bush, but if you utter a word against President Obama, you’re a lying, racist bigot. And if you deny it? Well, that’s just what we would expect a bigot like you to say.
And so most of today’s liberals (or "postmodern leftists," to use Mr. Holmes’ preferred term) are not championing the right to offer opposing views, as their intellectual forebears would have done. They’re suppressing them.
This campaign to stamp out dissent takes many forms. We see it in Internal Revenue Service witch hunts against conservative groups. On college campuses with administrators meekly bowing to angry demands that politically incorrect speakers be banned. In the push from state attorneys general to investigate groups that question climate change.
Ask Lennart Bengtsson. In 2014, this well-respected Swedish meteorologist working in the United Kingdom joined a group called the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which questions some of the climate change community’s findings. Mr. Bengtsson did so simply because he was concerned that some of the computer-model predictions didn’t match up with actual scientific observations over time.
Big mistake. "Within a matter of days, he found himself in deep trouble," Mr. Holmes writes. "As happened to other scientists who question any aspect of the global-warming ‘consensus,’ Bengtsson was hounded by colleagues to the point that he felt forced to resign from the think tank."
Mr. Bengtsson cited concerns for his "health and safety," saying the pressure made "normal work" virtually impossible, and warned: "It is a situation that reminds me about the time of McCarthy."
That’s how far today’s "liberals" have fallen. They’ve become the very thing they once denounced.
And so we wind up in a culture that punishes young children severely for first-time, minor infractions under "zero tolerance" policies. One with so many thousands of federal laws that we prosecute adults for committing crimes that they didn’t even know were crimes."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/9/ed-feulner-leftists-liberal-in-name-only/
Liberals used to defend and seek to protect whistle blowers and protesters against the government. When a liberal is in office, suddenly those things are treated like crimes. Any criticism over Obama's liberal views are called racist. The left uses words, such as 'racist', 'greedy', 'denier', or 'birther' in order to ridicule and shut down free speech rather than debate. They must fear losing in an honest debate and that is why they will do anything to prevent it. They prefer talking points and name calling instead of explaining themselves. If you ask Al Gore to back up any of his claims, all you get is "There is no debate." What they say goes. Period. Even scientists who once supported the global warming crowd find themselves in hot water when they point out faulty data. I guess the left is serious about this no debate thing.
Over-regulation has resulted in so many bullshit laws that virtually anyone is likely to be in violation of something. This is an age-old tactic of dictators. They like having the ability to arrest any person who gets in their way and having a pile of laws in their arsenal makes this easy. If nothing else, the government can kill you without any arrests, charges or convictions. If any of the administration's enemies suddenly disappear, this may explain it.
For most, they just take all the person's money and ruin them that way. The over-used civil forfeiture says that if you have cash it must mean you did something illegal. They simply take all your money and call it good with no arrest and no charges. The cop is judge and jury on the spot. After your money is taken, you are free to go. But, be warned, there are thousands of other reasons they could hurt you. This is the new America.
Liberals today seem to be against people being wealthy, owning property, free speech, having any pride in our country, secure borders, national security, real education, immigrant assimilation, laws protecting the sanctity of our voting system, morals, and liberty to live the way you want or question government when you feel it necessary. The new government is not by the people, for the people. It's against the people. The 'we' versus 'them' has never been more true and it's liberals leading the way for an authoritarian government. The government has become something to fear and that is what tyranny is all about. No politician fears the public. They mock us. They know they have given themselves unlimited power over us and that gives them confidence to do as they please without fear of retribution. Just look at Hillary.
"You don’t have to go back to the days of the Enlightenment, John Locke and the French Revolution (as Mr. Holmes, a former U.S. assistant secretary of state, does in his commendably thorough book) to see this trend at work. Consider the following quote from a famous politician. See if you can guess who said it and when:
"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say, ‘We are Americans, and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration’."
John McCain talking about President Obama? Nope. That’s Hillary Clinton. She said it in 2003, in reference to the George W. Bush administration.
But as they say, that was then, and this is now. Apparently it’s patriotic to express your opposition to President Bush, but if you utter a word against President Obama, you’re a lying, racist bigot. And if you deny it? Well, that’s just what we would expect a bigot like you to say.
And so most of today’s liberals (or "postmodern leftists," to use Mr. Holmes’ preferred term) are not championing the right to offer opposing views, as their intellectual forebears would have done. They’re suppressing them.
This campaign to stamp out dissent takes many forms. We see it in Internal Revenue Service witch hunts against conservative groups. On college campuses with administrators meekly bowing to angry demands that politically incorrect speakers be banned. In the push from state attorneys general to investigate groups that question climate change.
Ask Lennart Bengtsson. In 2014, this well-respected Swedish meteorologist working in the United Kingdom joined a group called the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which questions some of the climate change community’s findings. Mr. Bengtsson did so simply because he was concerned that some of the computer-model predictions didn’t match up with actual scientific observations over time.
Big mistake. "Within a matter of days, he found himself in deep trouble," Mr. Holmes writes. "As happened to other scientists who question any aspect of the global-warming ‘consensus,’ Bengtsson was hounded by colleagues to the point that he felt forced to resign from the think tank."
Mr. Bengtsson cited concerns for his "health and safety," saying the pressure made "normal work" virtually impossible, and warned: "It is a situation that reminds me about the time of McCarthy."
That’s how far today’s "liberals" have fallen. They’ve become the very thing they once denounced.
And so we wind up in a culture that punishes young children severely for first-time, minor infractions under "zero tolerance" policies. One with so many thousands of federal laws that we prosecute adults for committing crimes that they didn’t even know were crimes."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/9/ed-feulner-leftists-liberal-in-name-only/
