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Free Speech Isn’t Free. Is It Wanted?

12 Monday Feb 2018

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America, college, culture, First Amendment, free-speech

Not by many Americans it seems. Not today. The truth, despite what some will tell you, has never been in vogue. There’s a war over speech.

The free speech wars are getting worse, but it seems that none of the warring factions quite grasp the character of the dispute — or precisely what’s at stake.

At the figurative center of the clash is the norm of near-absolute freedom of speech and expression, which its defenders like to treat as the American default. A number of ideological challenges have arisen in recent years to overturn this norm.

On many college campuses, groups of left-leaning students insist that free speech should be conditional on speakers adhering to explicit standards of diversity and avoiding the infliction of emotional harm on the members of marginalized groups through the spreading of “hate.”

The war may be hottest in America’s colleges.

Richard Walker, a University of Central Florida sophomore and member of Knights for Socialism, believes his school should be limiting the voices of those who spew hateful rhetoric on campus.

“The university’s first responsibility is ensuring the safety and well-being of their students,” said Walker, 19. “It might be just words now, but if you let that sort of thing come into the public discourse and become widely accepted, it doesn’t stay words.”

In America’s politically polarized environment, students such as Walker increasingly think colleges should ban speech that may be racist or defamatory, a trend that worries advocates of the First Amendment.

More than 40 percent of students believe the First Amendment does not protect hate speech, according to a Brookings Institute poll taken of 1,500 students nationwide last year. Almost 20 percent believe using violence is an acceptable means to stop such speech, the poll found. In all, 53 percent of students — 61 percent Democrat and 47 percent Republican — believe colleges and universities should prohibit offensive speech, according to the survey.

Time was when everyone assumed the colleges’ first role was to promote knowledge and learning. Learning, to a large degree, requires communication of ideas, speech – even that which may be unpopular or uncomfortable.

That 20% find violence an acceptable alternative to debate or turning away is astounding. The legal concept of “fighting words,” speech unprotected because it could give rise to imminent physical danger, is predicated on what was known as the “reasonable man” doctrine.

We seem to have a shortage of reason today. And that should be the idea that offends.

Offended??? Goodbye Free Speech in America

31 Tuesday Oct 2017

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America, culture, fear, free-speech, freedom, political correctness, politics, society, The People

A perhaps fitting release for Halloween: An eye-opening, if slightly demoralizing study from Cato, finds Americans live in fear of words. (Carlin got this years ago).

Americans Say Political Correctness Has Silenced Discussions Society Needs to Have; Most Have Views They’re Afraid to Share

Nearly three-fourths (71%) of Americans believe that political correctness has done more to silence important discussions our society needs to have. A little more than a quarter (28%) instead believe that political correctness has done more to help people avoid offending others.

The consequences are personal-58% of Americans believe the political climate today prevents them from saying things they believe. Democrats are unique, however, in that a slim majority (53%) do not feel the need to self-censor. Conversely, strong majorities of Republicans (73%) and independents (58%) say they keep some political beliefs to themselves.

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If one loose cannon sets off a state of emergency in your state or at your “school,” you may have a worse problem that just him. Florida Today.

This kind of goes with the failing schools and falling IQs thing.

Americans used to bravely stare down bears, whales, and British troops. Now they recoil in horror and fear from pronouns, banana peels, and geometry.

Anyway, thank God nothing offensive ever appears at this site. For instance,

Nothing offensive about these Happy Halloween Tunes!

Happy Halloween, wimps…

Bonus:

Carlin of the euphemisms/YouTube.

Disturbing Picture of Santa Claus

19 Saturday Aug 2017

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America, Boston, culture, Etc., free-speech, Santa Claus

In his off time Santa works for the man. What a shame:

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Spot Santa??? Carlos Slim’s Blog.

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He’s getting too serious about the naughty stuff…

Seriously, it was almost nice to have a pointless clash of the leftists free speech rally that didn’t end with a homicide. Good on ya, Boston. My favorite big city.

And this hilarity gave me the needed post de jure. More pressing stuff in Spain, Russia, and D.C. but this is what you get.

You’re welcome and good night.

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The Slant on the Redskins and Other Offensive Names

20 Tuesday Jun 2017

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns

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First Amendment, free-speech, freedom, law, Supreme Court

Deal with them. Good news for free speech: the Supreme Court rules against arbitrary and capricious bureaucrats and in favor of the First Amendment.

In a decision likely to bolster the Washington Redskins’ efforts to protect their trademarks, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the government may not refuse to register potentially offensive names. A law denying protection to disparaging trademarks, the court said, violated the First Amendment.

The decision was unanimous, but the justices were divided on the reasoning.

The decision, concerning an Asian-American dance-rock band called the Slants, was viewed by a lawyer for the Washington Redskins as a strong indication that the football team will win its fight to retain federal trademark protection.

Lisa S. Blatt, a lawyer for the team, said the decision “resolves the Redskins’ longstanding dispute with the government.”

“The Supreme Court vindicated the team’s position that the First Amendment blocks the government from denying or canceling a trademark registration based on the government’s opinion,” she said.

Like me, you may have never heard of The Slants and you may have forgotten that Washington has a football team. This is still a win for freedom.

The OPINION.

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U.S. Supreme Court.

A Law to be Forgotten

17 Friday Mar 2017

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America, free-speech, freedom, government, New York

A little 1984ish, Caiaphasistic, Nooo-Yak legal news:

In a bill aimed at securing a “right to be forgotten,” introduced by Assemblyman David I. Weprin and (as Senate Bill 4561 by state Sen. Tony Avella), liberal New York politicians would require people to remove ‘inaccurate,’ ‘irrelevant,’ ‘inadequate’ or ‘excessive’ statements about others…

Within 30 days of a ”request from an individual,”
“all search engines and online speakers] shall remove … content about such individual, and links or indexes to any of the same, that is ‘inaccurate’, ‘irrelevant’, ‘inadequate’ or ‘excessive,’ ”
“and without replacing such removed … content with any disclaimer [or] takedown notice.”
“ ‘[I]naccurate’, ‘irrelevant’, ‘inadequate’, or ‘excessive’ shall mean content,”
“which after a significant lapse in time from its first publication,”
“is no longer material to current public debate or discourse,”
“especially when considered in light of the financial, reputational and/or demonstrable other harm that the information … is causing to the requester’s professional, financial, reputational or other interest,”
“with the exception of content related to convicted felonies, legal matters relating to violence, or a matter that is of significant current public interest, and as to which the requester’s role with regard to the matter is central and substantial.”

Failure to comply would make the search engines or speakers liable for, at least, statutory damages of $250/day plus attorney fees.

Weprin (D, Dist. 24) boasts that his family has controlled District 24 four 45 years. He’s also knee-deep in the bankster cabal (“regulator”, yes…), and has other, related political allegiances.

Now, he wants to extend that control and regulation state-wide and world-wide via the internet. Another Democrat standing up tall for free speech! For he low-low price of $250 per day…

I assume this is all related to a scrivener’s error and some of the reported words were jumbled. If not, Weprin, his idiot constituents, his handlers, and the whole NY Assembly can all go to hell. Then, be forgotten.

1984: American College Version

22 Wednesday Feb 2017

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1984, America, college, communism, education, First Amendment, free-speech, freedom, Milo, Orwell, SJW

I have no idea whether Orwell’s 1984 is still permitted on American college campuses anymore. While it used to be mandatory or near-mandatory reading, I can see it easily offending today’s snowflake “students” and make-work professors and administrators.

One thing is certain: those administrators and their faculty allies seemed to have used the novel as a blueprint for many of their pathetic anti-freedom programs and plans.

Milo Y., recently in the news, caused a ruckus traveling the U.S. in an attempt to stir debate on various college campuses. Many students and many more Soros Rent-A-Mob hooligans reacted violently. Milo summed up the base problem at his press conference yesterday:

Don’t think for a moment that this will stop me being as offensive, provocative and outrageously funny as I want on any subject I want. America has a colossal free speech problem. The land of the First Amendment has some of the most oppressive social restrictions on free expression anywhere in the western world. I’m proud to be a warrior for free speech and creative expression.

I want everyone in America, the greatest country in the history of human civilisation, to be able to be, do, read and say anything. I will never stop fighting for your right to do that.

A colossal free speech problem – a freedom problem,really – and nowhere more evident than at our failing colleges. Here’s proof: hundreds of American colleges have snitch programs to combat “offensive” speech:

Universities are the cradle of free speech, where ideologies and ideas clash, where academics and activists can agree, disagree, or be disagreeable. This is particularly true in the United States, where the First Amendment zealously guards against government surveillance and intrusion into free speech.

Yet at hundreds of campuses across the country, administrators encourage students to report one another, or their professors, for speech protected by the First Amendment, or even mere political disagreements. The so-called “Bias Response Teams” reviewing these (often anonymous) reports typically include police officers, student conduct administrators and public relations staff who scrutinize the speech of activists and academics.

This sounds like the stuff of Orwell, although even he might have found the name “Bias Response Team” to be over-the-top.

Over the past year, I surveyed more than 230 such reporting systems for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and asked dozens of schools for records about their Bias Response Teams. What I found is detailed in a new report describing how universities broadly define “bias” to include virtually any speech, protected or not, that subjectively offends anyone. On many campuses, administrators are called upon to referee whether speech is polite.

Correction: universities were the cradle of free speech. Today they are bastions of newspeak, debt, and the secret police – and little else.

Here’s a link to the F.I.R.E. Report.

In Appendix B they list out every offended, offensive school, by state.

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I was pleased that neither of the two schools I procured degrees from were included. However, based on my experience with them, I could see them having something similar if they don’t already. The sheer volume of these programs is troubling. The whole thing is troubling.

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Open Culture.

There’s no need to look into any of these schools specifically – they usual suspects. Use this list as schools to avoid, if you’re in the education market. If you’re at one, and you get targeted, contact F.I.R.E. It’s time to drive the shrieking Nazis back into fiction.

Fun and Games and Felony Mayhem

04 Saturday Feb 2017

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America, crime, free-speech, liberals, riots, SJW, violence, Vox Day

Tomorrow night the Atlanta Falcons are going to be beaten by the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LI. How badly remains to be seen. I have a meme parade on standby for Monday morning. It’s all aimed at poking fun at many of my friends and the legions of anti-Pats haters out there (97% of the world by their own memes).

That’s the fun and games. Here’s the deadly seriousness of the world:

Vox Day posted a story about an interview with a woman who was viciously assaulted at U.C. Berkeley this week.

He was referring to this interview:

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Said Vox:

Watch the video. Notice how they attack. They’re very skirmish-oriented, very hit-and-run. Effective, limited-force counters are going to require interfering with their ability to do so. Canes and staffs taking them down to the ground by application to the legs would likely be most effective for the untrained; sweeps and strikes to the knee would be the right tactic for the trained. Take them down, then have your allies drag them back away from their companions and zip-tie them.

It’s clear that they are inclined to use pepper spray, but those trying to pepper-spray can be taken out very easily, as when they extend their arm, they are vulnerable to either a) being taken down with a rotation, b) having their arm broken, or, if they’re small enough, c) thrown behind. The key is to be aware and ready for it; as soon as the arm comes out, grab with the opposite hand and pull hard.

Notice that Katrina and her husband thought they were prepared; they both were wearing kevlar vests. But defensive measures are not enough; one has to be prepared to neutralize the attackers when they attack. Always wear a belt, as it’s easy to loop it over an attacker’s neck, particularly one attacking someone else, and incapacitate them with it. In extremis, it can also be used in combination with a set of keys, or a pocket knife with a loop, as a flail.

Notice that both the pepper-spray attackers were women. These are not fearsome streetfighters, they are relying on getting in and out without being touched.

But most importantly, stop relying on the police and the media! They are not going to defend you, they are not going to take your side, and they are not going to give you a fair shake.

It occurs to me that as they rely upon anonymity, an Antifa List should be added to the SJW List so that everyone knows exactly who these people are.

These are the violent actions of the liberals who claim to love and support free speech. They love and support it so much that they must do whatever it takes to shut down the free speech of a gay man from Britain. The same liberals who invented 1,000 hate crime hoaxes after Trump was elected. The same who want to take your guns because you are so violent.

As Vox said, watch the video. Watch all of them – there are many. Another attractive blonde woman was attacked at Berkeley (Video). The same kind of thugs assaulted Richards Spencer in D.C. (Video).

Of course, in the eyes of the left, Spencer deserved it because he’s a “Nazi”. The kind of Nazi who holds rallies for his fellow black, Asian, gay, and Jewish Nazis. Maybe all the blonde women are Nazis too. They are all white. And that made me think of the sign I saw behind Spencer just before he was attacked:

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Does that really mean: “white lives don’t matter”? Or could it just be: “kill whites”? The actions of late speak louder than the words.

These idiots don’t read history. Or care about it. It was the constant attacks by violent communist thugs on innocent people that precipitated the Brownshirts in Germany. Do they want a self-fulfilling prophecy here?

Vox gives some excellent advice for self-defense from the crazed criminals. Also pay attention to what the victimized woman said about the police. They are not there to help you. They don’t care.

I’ll go a little further with the tactics. Even the best trained fighter can be blindsided. Move in groups and have spotters. And be ready at all times. Do not talk to the media or become otherwise distracted. If you can’t go armed to these events, don’t go. And if you’re there and armed, and if you are attacked, kill the bastards. Every single one of these little cretins deserves instant justice. We don’t need to wait for things to get worse (which they will). These thugs are happy as clams to get violent. So must we. They started it. Let’s finish it.

Sooner or later – probably this year (and sooner than later) – the video is coming of a decent citizen dropping one or more of the savages. You’ll see it here along with calls to repeat it until the problems are solved.

Then we go back to fun and games.

Fortunately, There’s Gab

16 Wednesday Nov 2016

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First Amendment, free-speech, Gab, Second Amendment, Twitter

I was on and off Twitter pretty quick. There was just something about it I never got. The blog I totally control. Facebook … uh … I just knew a bunch of people. Twitter never made sense. Years later and I still get traffic here from there. Thank you to whoever Tweets my rambling madness. I am grateful.

My choice to leave Twitter was voluntary. Others, lately, haven’t had the option. Twitter has waged a war against members of the Alt-Right. They’ve been kicked off the platform in droves, victims of an SJW witch-hunt.

The useless Southern Poverty Communism Center is gloating.

The mass bans arrived in tandem with a new Twitter policy that prevents “hate against a race, religion, gender, or orientation”. In the world of permanently offended social justice warriors, “hate” is having a different opinion to them, while “harassment” is replying to their idiocy on Twitter.

The SPLC [SPCC], which is currently embroiled in an effort to force Trump to ditch Breitbart’s Stephen Bannon as his White House strategist, celebrated the news, tweeting “good riddance” in response to a user who tweeted, “Alt-right Twitter says Twitter has mounted a coordinated effort to wipe it out.”

I’m not on Twitter so I’m not sure what they could have said to get banned. I suspect it was nothing. Nothing except good, old-fashioned, Soviet thought policing. I’m not Alt-Right although I agree with a lot of what they say. The label applies to a wide-ranging group of groups so it’s a little hard to know what they stand for. Whatever it is, I support the free expression. It’s a shame others do not.

These stories got me thinking about my liberal friend’s Facebook wish: “I wish Republicans had the same unwavering, unconditional support for the First Amendment that they do for the Second.” Again, I’m 100% with that statement. I also wish that liberals had the same unwavering, unconditional support for free speech that they do for say … abortion.

They only see some speech as free, good, and acceptable. Speech like this:

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The Red & Black.

And this:

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ABC Tampa.

Good, healthy, progressive free speech. I actually support those who spout hate against my kind, at least as to the right to spout it (minus the vandalism of my highway). It makes me keep some spare mags handy but I support it.

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See, I can support the First and the Second at once. Then again, I’m not a Republican.

Anyway, all of this is moot now thanks to Gab. Gab is like Twitter but with free speech and no trolls. Come on over. Sooner than later I would suggest; Twitter is probably on life support. Banning your customers can do that. Once you get there you’ll love it. And you’ll soon out Gab me. I’m the social media version of a turtle with a laptop. And an AR. And a cigar.

And that’s what I’m Gabbin ’bout.

The Truth Is No Defense

27 Thursday Oct 2016

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America, BS, Christians, culture, Europe, free-speech, hate crimes, Islam, schools, The West

More cultural news from Europe – none of it good.

It is now perfectly acceptable to indoctrinate native, presumably Christian school children in the wonder ways of Allah.

PUPILS at a primary school were forced to chant “Allahu Akhbar” and “there is no God but Allah”, an appalled father has claimed.

The father of the pupil at the girl’s primary school in German ski resort Garmisch-Partenkirchen discovered that his daughter had been forced to learn the Islamic prayer when he discovered a handout she had been given.

He claimed she had been “forced” by teachers to memorise the Islamic chants and forwarded the handout to Austrian news service unsertirol24.

Just to be clear, it is wrong to have a Christmas tree, nativity scene or any mention of Christianity at the same German schools as that would violate the wall of separation between sense and education.

Next semester I hear the school will expand the lessons to include sexual assault, knife skills, and creative sidewalk truck driving. Diversity in education benefits everyone. No price is too high to include everyone’s views and cultural observations. Well, not all of them, it seems. There is a price for honesty in observation.

Nearby in Austria a popular newspaper editor is charged with a hate crime after printing the truth about the recent invader …er… visitors from Syria and other non-Western countries.

On 25 October 2015, Christoph Biro wrote of the masses of migrants who were travelling through the Styrian countryside and remarked on the assaults and property damage committed by migrants, reports Kurier.

Calling the majority of the migrants “testosterone-driven Syrians”, Mr. Biro recounted the multiple reports of migrants carrying out, in his words, “extremely aggressive sexual assaults”.

He also detailed Afghan men had slashed the seats of the trains that were transporting them to Germany because they refused to sit where Christians had previously sat.

The commentary provoked a negative reaction at the time with 37 complaints lodged against Mr. Biro. He took four weeks off from his position at the time, claiming that he had lost perspective and proportion of the situation.

Just because your country is overrun with anti-Christian bigots, rapists, and terrorists doesn’t mean anyone really wants to know about it. Get with the 21st Century, man. Your readers want to know when the jihad affirmation tour is coming to their elementary schools.

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German school field trip exploring refugee benefits for commerce and transportation. Pamela Geller.

And he’s being criminally prosecuted will possible jail time at stake. Other people on the Old Continent have been imprisoned for similar truth speech.

At least America has the First Amendment. For now. And in legal theory. The SJWs do everything in their power to inflict all punishment short of incarceration. Free speech isn’t free and common sense isn’t common.

How much more of this do y’all want?

THEY Don’t Just Hate the Second Amendment

30 Thursday Jun 2016

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America, Congress, firearms, First Amendment, free-speech, government, Second Amendment

They hate it, yes. Paul Ryan is moving gun control through the House to match what the Senate is doing.

Ryan’s decision comes a week after Democrats disrupted House activities with a nearly 26-hour sit-in demanding action on gun control. It’s unclear whether Ryan’s proposal would include the broad “no fly, no buy” proposal Democrats have supported or a more limited version endorsed by the National Rifle Association.

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On the call, Ryan said it was common sense that suspects on terror watch lists should not be able to buy guns, but the Wisconsin Republican wants to be sure that any provision protects due process for people who may mistakenly be added to such lists.

I give the House measures as much credence as I give the Senate’s – none.

It’s not just firearms freedom they’re after. They want to shut down free speech too:

Democrats targeting content and control of the Internet, especially from conservative sources, are pushing hard to layer on new regulations and even censorship under the guise of promoting diversity while policing bullying, warn commissioners from the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Election Commission.

“Protecting freedom on the Internet is just one vote away,” said Lee E. Goodman, a commissioner on the FEC which is divided three Democrats to three Republicans. “There is a cloud over your free speech.”

      – Federal regulation of Internet coming, warn FCC, FEC commissioners, Washington              Examiner.

If it has to do with personal freedom, the government is against it. Remember this in November.

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