Why Does the Left Have Such a Difficult Time With the Concept of 'Free Speech'?
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30 Apr 2022 ~~ By Rick Moran
For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter. —George Washington
Washington was on to something. There is no more vital safeguard of our liberties than freedom of speech. Without it, we are, as Washington graphically notes, “like sheep led to the slaughter.”
Benjamin Franklin (writing as the widow Silence Dogood) said it as plainly as it could be said.
In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
This is one of those truths that appear to be self-evident. But today, only some speech is considered “free.” The rest must comport with a dizzying number of rules, conventions, and arbitrary guidelines that makes a mockery of the concept of free speech.
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Why would any American care about what can be said on Twitter? The whole point of the First Amendment is that it’s no one’s bloody business what I say on Twitter or any other social media platform, blog, website, newspaper article, or email thanking my Auntie Midge for her Christmas fruitcake.
Why suppress a viewpoint because it might hurt someone’s feelings or is repulsively racist or anti-Semitic? Just because it’s published doesn’t mean you have to read it. That’s freedom of speech too — the freedom to ignore the kooks, the crazies, the haters, and all the internet wild people who have created such a toxic place for people to gather. Is it really so hard to tune these loons out?
Let the racists rant. Let the nuts spout their conspiracy theories. The danger is in trying to decide what
might be racist or hateful. Once you set up a process, a system, a board, or a person to try and define what is “hate,” what is “disinformation,” what is “unacceptable,” free speech is gone.
Elon Musk is sort of on the right track. But even he will have to bow to the eager-beaver lefty censors who are pure of heart and empty of head. And the concept of free speech will die a little more.
If we can’t trust the people to make their own decisions about what to believe, what to accept, and what to reject, we might as well get in line with the other sheep and offer our necks to the ax.
Commentary:
This is like asking why Maoists have such a problem with free speech. The question answers itself.
According to Progressive Maoist/DSA Democrat Commies. when they have no argument they must shut the opposition down.
They indoctrinate our young, saying any opinion that differs from the PM/DSA Dem ideological flow is dangerous, traitorous, damaging and likely illegal.
Indeed, this is something deeper and more fundamental to the foundation of Maoist Marxism today. They're are not liberal. They're not the Jeffersonian liberals of yesteryear where are the argument between liberal and conservative centered around whether or not the federal government should be strong or weak.
The terms today —-left or right —-originate from Europe. They originate from the slight differences between Socialism on the left and Fascism on the right. The United States Constitution is neither. Conservatives who support the US Constitution are not right wing. They’re not right of anything. They are just simply constitutionalists. But the Democrat party for the last 40 years or more has been infiltrated by European Fascism. Let’s just call it Marxism for ease of description.
Accordingly following their radical playbook… today’s Leftists have taken over our language and the idiot sheep allow it. Why? I have no idea. Perhaps they are just not aware. Everywhere the Maoist Marxist philosophy has been implemented whether the Socialist or Fascist construct …speech has always been curtailed, controlled, and manipulated.
That's because Maoist Marxism is in fundamental opposition to natural laws. It fails to observe the rules set forth by the Almighty in the construct of the animal kingdom. Marxism ignores the very nature of Man. Therefore to maintain its existence the followers of Marx, Lenin and Mao must control the thoughts of Man. Speech is the extension of human thought. Therefore it must be tightly controlled.
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