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Thursday, December 14, 2006
Tancredo - no "freedom of speech" for Congressman
Inside Politics by Greg Pierce includes a brief article entitled Miami blues regarding the "shutting down" of a speech Congressman Tom Tancredo was scheduled to give for the Miami Rotary Club at a Miami restaurant.
"Charles Hurt of The Washington Times reports..." that the speech was titled: "Renewing America: The Need for Assimilation." Congressman Tancredo is quoted as saying, "I knew speaking your mind could be dangerous in Havana. I guess it's equally dangerous to do so in Miami. Apparently, there isn't much of a difference between the two any more."
The dinner and speech were canceled based upon threats to both the Rotary Club and the restaurant.
Such is the condition of "freedom of speech" in America today; such is the state of the union in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Open and honest discussions and dialogue are closed through intimidation and threats of violence.
Is this the nation our parents, our grandparents, and our children are now fighing for? A nation in which speech from conservatives is stifled, shut down. Is this what you want your nation to become? A fascist state ruled by mobs, by threats, by intimidation.
Remember, if there is no freedom of speech for a United States Congressman invited to speak at a Rotary Club dinner, how long do you think you will have freedom of speech? How long will it take before you are shut down?
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From Crusader Rabbit, this is not a platform for leftist tripe.
BG, why don't you open up the comments? You can always delete the few lonely mama's-boy posts that trash the joint.
ReplyDeleteThe irony is this -- the left who went around saying that anything that could be said, should be said, is now saying that "we decide that is said". Liberalism ALWAYS follows the slope down to totalitarianism. ALWAYS.
Look at the speaking experiences of Ann Coulter, Tancredo, David Horowitz, and others. This is the legacy of liberalism. Where campus speech codes (not a conservative invention guys) fail, threats and violence succeed. So where the heck did this freedom go that you once championed in the '60's guys?
You mustn't offend your overlords, the Muslims, right? I thought this was America?
Okay, fearless leader - open it is. Only problem is that I don't always know where the comments are going, as in what post the response relates to.
ReplyDeleteA friend in Australia tells me that CAIR got a blog shutdown - so freedom of speech is out in Amerika.
Burqas and dhimmitude for all... but wait, if you "convert" as in Muslim in name only (MINO) you don't have to pay the dhimmitude tax. As good capitalists, which choice is there in that scenario? Hmmmm...
A Muslim in Congress (that oath will sure mean a lot to him :); and a Muslim Ambassador to the UN from the US to talk with the others supporting Islamic regimes - yes, all is moving along will for the Islamic Caliphate. Just swimmingly...