[…] the broader point is much more troubling: Yet again, a talk that’s critical of radical Islam — and perhaps of Islam generally — has been kicked out of a location because of a fear of violence (whether stemming from specific threats related to this talk, or from threats made about other events in the past). Next time, the exclusion might interfere considerably more with the speech, especially if other government and private organizations follow suit.
Plus a powerful symbolic message is sent to those who are happy whenever such speech is interfered with: Threats of violence get results. Behavior that gets rewarded gets repeated.
Precisely why how things play out in Madison is so important. The left is testing every soft spot they can probe in order to break through Constitutional defenses — thwarting the democratic process, blackmail, racketeering, illegal work stoppages, occupying government buildings, threatening lawmakers and their families, and now, shopping for activist judges and trying to install a state Supreme Court justice whom they have already “vetted” to make sure she will vote “appropriately” on issues where she’ll agree to reason backward from the desired outcome.
Indiana has already surrendered. And on the national level, the GOP House leadership seems to lack the political will to stop the takeover of the country by a “progressive” coup, despite being handed an astonishing mandate by an electorate who, frankly, rose up and did their part.
At some point, we’re going to need to realize that, unless we show a willingness to really fight back — that is, to refuse to accept outcomes manipulated by the left through extra-legislative means — we have already lost the country.
(thanks to geoffB)
Bingo!
Sometimes it feels like the Repubs are packed in Cosmoline.
At some point, we’re going to need to realize that, unless we show a willingness to really fight back — that is, to refuse to accept outcomes manipulated by the left through extra-legislative means — we have already lost the country.
But wouldn’t we run the risk of being called ungovernable? I don’t think I could handle that.
If this is what constitutes political clout — the ability to force the milquetoast establishment to do your dirty work by appealing to their fear — then circumstance has proven what gun-rights activists have argued for years: the Second Amendment secures the other nine.
Or it would, if law-abiding gun owners weren’t, you know, law-abiding.
May not need to actually fight back against Washington so much as start ignoring it. You’ve passed a new law saying we can’t do what we’re doing? What if we tell you to step off? You and what army?
The army will SEIU at home.
“Pushing your way across the Sierra Nevada against determined resistance is not likely to be as easy as, say, marching into Georgia.”
“Pushing your way across the Sierra Nevada against determined resistance is not likely to be as easy as, say, marching into Georgia.”
I await liberation here in Sacto. Vive Le Resistance.
Indiana has already surrendered. And on the national level, the GOP House leadership seems to lack the political will to stop the takeover of the country by a “progressive” coup, despite being handed an astonishing mandate by an electorate who, frankly, rose up and did their part.
We are nation of lions led by a political class of donkeys.
did anyone read some of the comments on that thread?
good lord … the leftlibtards sneering that the “real hate” was the speaker and the TEA Party; equivalent of Neo-Nazis and We.Cant.Have.That!!
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