A follow-up to Jeff’s post from yesterday, John Ziegler talks about his ordeal at USC, where he attempted to interview people going to the awards ceremony for Katie Couric for her stellar work interviewing Sarah Palin. Fascism with a frowny face.
David Thompson also posted on the subject yesterday, a short bit worth your reading.
Clearly, the USC Campus Police were impressed by the DHS warning about dangerous right-wing extremists. Luckily for Ziegler, what they did didn’t constitute torture.
Finally, the Obama administration found an area where they could use the term “terrorist†and “terrorism†freely — and that was in the Department of Homeland Security’s report on the threat of right-wing extremism. Now, they couldn’t find very much evidence to back up their broad generalities and concerns (Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing makes a very lonely data point), but they did manage to cast aspersions on such devious, subversive elements as returning veterans.
Meanwhile, other prominent Democrats reacted to this week’s Tea Parties with some very strong language — throwing around terms such as “despicable,†“racist,â€Â “AstroTurfed,†and the like.
Oddly enough, they didn’t employ those terms to describe the protests at the recent G-20 gathering in London, the routine domestic terrorism of the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front, or even the recent silencing of former Representative Tom Tancredo at the University of North Carolina.
The conclusion seems pretty clear: the real terrorists, the real threat to American security, are not Islamist militants who have vowed to destroy America. No, the real terrorists are those who didn’t vote for Democrats, who stubbornly assert their independence, who insist on placing a high value on their rights, who believe strongly in such heretical concepts as the 1st, 2nd, and 10th Amendments to the United States Constitution, and even those who have sought out training in weapons and tactics by enlisting in the U.S. military.
Thanks for clearing that up, folks.
1966-67, Michigan State. Among the invited speakers to campus were George Lincoln Rockwell III and Timothy Leary. Quite a range there. Both were able to have their say without disruption.
There was a protest against the views of Rockwell. It took the form of people going to his speech wearing armbands with the Star of David on them and remaining completely silent through the entire speech.
In the memories of various gray headed leftists is a hallowed event on the Cal Berkeley campus known as the Free Speech Movement. Considering their current fascist squelching of opposing views, it would be similar to the Gay Liberation Movement celebrating the life of Phyllis Schlafly. The patron saint of the current left is not Mario Savio of the Free Speech Movement but Ernst Roehm of the SA Brownshirts in 1930’s Germany.
From what I’ve read, bill, the “Free Speech Movement” at Berkeley wasn’t about opening up the ability to speak freely, but about forcing the propagation of specific views — the ones the New Left wanted.
Obama has met the enemy, and He is US.
I always come back to the fact that while the left seeks to delegitimize the right based on some theoretical influence on stray unwashed ragemonkeys, the fringe nuts on the left are culled from the ranks of the educated class. Only in bizarro-world is a belief system that’s rotten from the top down deemed less bankrupt than one where the idea generating class is deemed to be potentially inflammatory.
“even those who have sought out training in weapons and tactics by enlisting in the U.S. military.”
Ah, nuts. My cunning plan to be part of the REICHWINGZ EXTREMIST KILLFORCE has been uncovered. It only looked like I enlisted 24 years ago to help make sure the USSR didn’t try it (Reforger anyone?) When that excuse disappeared with the Berlin Wall, it was lucky for me that Donald Rumsfeld had conspired with Dick Cheney to elevate Saddam Hussein into a foe (ah, the good old days when a picture of Rumsfeld shaking Saddam’s hand was PROOF of evil – not like bowing to the Sherif and Emir of Mecca and Medina, which is nothing). Then I got even luckier, Brown & Root made sure the Balkans turned nasty – Sarajevo, next stop! Then I struck gold with Exxon starting a war in Afghanistan so they could put their pipeline across…wherever it was. Whoo hoo, Parwan bound, baby! Then I was rewarded by being part of the suspension of disbelief, the surge that would fail in an already lost war! Al-Basrah, here I come!
Now, darn it, I am out of cover – and I have been revealed as the WINGNUT EXTREMIST MILTIA RECRUIT IN WAITING that I am. And I would have gotten away with it, if it weren’t for that meddling DHS Secretary!
I guess you are going to support Rush and Beck pimping Alex Jones too.
Hey, its a free country.
I guess it is a free country when LGF can be pimped on Protein Wisdom.
I guess you are going to support Rush and Beck pimping Alex Jones too.
Hey, its a free country.
Seriously? A paid advertiser? Like you said it’s a free country, where Michael Moore can win an academy award in the documentary category! It’s a free world, where Rigoberta Menchu has a Nobel Prize!
LTC John –
The DHS Secretary can probably be bought off with a Scooby snack. So can about 2/3 of Congress and definitely the President – as long as his is paid for by a foreign and untraceable credit card.
just sayin’
If Charles says so it must be true. Right?
Both guys do endorsements in which they read the ads themselves. Both guys are also syndicated which means that on any given station, you’ll hear ads that are part of their broadcasts and others that are sold and broadcast by the station you’re listening to them on. Unless you and Charles know which is which, nishi, you don’t really have much to work with here. How many times has he banned you, again? I forget.
Oh, and how’s Obama’s stem cell free for all working out for you? Science based restrictions, no doubt. Right?
Looks like you fell for an Obama Deception.