[ May 2, 2024 ]
Make no mistake, these are the actions of totalitarian destroyers. History is riddled with the human toll of these villains.
“The principle of free speech is not concerned with the content of a man speech and does not protect only the expression of good ideas, but all ideas. If it were otherwise who would determine which ideas are good and which have been? The government?” Ayn Rand, America’s greatest political philosopher, eloquently explained.
Freedom of speech is the foundation of a free society. Without it, a tyrant can wreak havoc unopposed, while his opponents are silenced. Putting up with being offended is essential in a pluralistic society in which people differ on basic truths. If a group will not bear being offended without resorting to violence, that group will rule unopposed while everyone else lives in fear, while other groups curtail their activities to appease the violent group. This results in the violent group being able to tyrannize the others.
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If speech that offends a group is outlawed, that group has absolute power, and a free society is destroyed. A group that cannot be criticized cannot be opposed. It can work its will no matter what it is, and no one will be able to say anything to stop it.
The antidote to bad speech is more speech. But the left cannot permit the free exchange of ideas because their failed ideas cannot stand up to scrutiny and challenge.
Inoffensive speech needs no protection. The First Amendment was developed precisely in order to protect speech that was offensive to some, in order to prevent those who had power from claiming they were offended by speech opposing them and silencing the powerless.
A free society is by its nature one in which people put up with others being uncivil and offensive. The alternative is a quiet authoritarian society in which only one opinion is allowed and the others are silenced, and ultimately sent to the camps.
Connecticut Democrats Seek to Create a Censorship Board to Limit Free Speech
By: Wendell Husebo, Breitbart News, April. 1, 2023:
The Democrat-dominated Connecticut legislature is seeking to create a censorship board through Senate Bill 6410 to regulate online speech.
The bill would establish a board to study so-called online “harassment” of individuals, including government officials, and recommend legislation to censor free speech by the creation of reporting guidelines. The censorship board would consist of nine members, four of whom would represent the minority Republican party.
The bill states:
Such assessment shall include, but need not be limited to,
(1) short term and long term effects of harassing behaviors online on elected officials, public officials and residents of this state,
(2) what state or municipal action is needed to address negative online behaviors that consider a citizen’s right to freedom of speech versus an individual’s right to be free from harassment including, but not limited to, potential changes in state law concerning additional penalties or enforcement of online harassment, and
(3) establishing guidelines for the reporting of online harassment of elected state and municipal officials that find a balance between making elected officials accessible to the people whom they serve and protecting them from abusive, offensive or threatening online harassment.
Chris Zeller, executive director of the Connecticut Republican party (CTGOP), told Breitbart News the Democrats are trying to pass a censorship measure to cover up their agenda.
“They are trying to hide years of incompetent governance and a far-left agenda that is too radical for the average Connecticut voter,” he said.
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17 Comments
1 year ago
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. (Voltaire)
1 year ago
Reply to
JoeyJ
Voltaire did not say that. Some neo Nazi, talking about the Jews, said that.
1 year ago
Reply to
Underzog
Liberal fact checkers aka opinion checkers will state Voltaire didn’t say it but to word press the famous one liner is Voltaires .
1 year ago
Reply to
Richard Meyer
Both Voltaire and the neo Nazi who coined this phrase hated Jews, but from what I read, Voltaire did not say this. I went to Jewish sources too — not necessarily Liberal.
1 year ago
Reply to
Richard Meyer
Better yet, the Nazi “National Vanguard” had a good chuckle over Kevin Strom being mistaken for Voltaire: https://nationalvanguard.org/2017/01/voltaire-didnt-say-it/?doing_wp_cron=1621886110.6385650634765625000000
1 year ago
In a modern world, the people who control you control your currency and energy. Control of currency and energy (oil, natural gas, coal) controls the cost of being alive. They also control elections. They control the people you elect. They control academia. They control media. They control business. They control trade and borders and just about everything you can think of.
1 year ago
I am still going to speak, think and do what I want! I like to see those corrupt, hypocritical lying puppets try to stop me. Bring it on!!!
D
1 year ago
According to the criminal dumocraps only they have the right to say what they wish!
1 year ago
You mentioned Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand’s heir, Leonard Peikoff, told what to do if our free speech is taken away. I cannot say it on the board, but one can look up what Dr. Peikoff had to say. Also this proposed board is in violation of Title 18: 240 and would subject the perpatrator of such an action to citizens arrest.
1 year ago
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Richard Meyer
Not so odd. I got a number off. It is title 18; sec. 241 or maybe sec. 242. I g0ot the last number off. Thanks for the correction.
D
1 year ago
Reply to
Underzog
“The process of spreading a philosophy by means of free discussion among thinking adults is long and complex. From Plato to the present, it has been the dream of social planners to circumvent this process and, instead, to inject a controversial ideology directly into the plastic, unformed minds of children—by means of seizing a country’s educational system and turning it into a vehicle for indoctrination. In this way one may capture an entire generation without intellectual resistance, in a single coup d’école.”
― Leonard Peikoff
Last edited 1 year ago by Dave from San Antonio
1 year ago
This is what trudope is trying to do up here in Canuckistan.
D
1 year ago
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”—Benjamin Franklin
“We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody’s civil rights to say whatever he pleases.”—Adolf Hitler
“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.”—George Orwell
Each one of these quotes relates to the Left and what they are doing.
1 year ago
Reply to
Miffed52
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
– George Orwell
“A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.” – George Orwell
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices.” – George Orwell
1 year ago
AUTHOR: Benjamin Franklin (1706–90)
QUOTATION: “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”
“A Republic, if you can keep it.”
ATTRIBUTION: The response is attributed to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN—at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation—in the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Maryland’s delegates to the Convention.
America’s minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels was right.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
— Joseph Goebbels
“Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.” — Joseph Goebbels
