Obama Is Not The Speech Police, Sort Of
Sep 8, 2011 Political
When Congresswoman Giffords was shot by a crazed left winger Obama made a speech where he said we had to be civil. We owed it to the victims. Obama’s words basically said that tough talk was responsible for violence. The left went nuts and blamed Sarah Palin and others because of things like maps with bull’s eyes on them. Obama made metaphors and violence a cause and effect issue.
At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized, at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do,” the President said at the time, “it’s important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.”
If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate, as it should, let’s make sure it’s worthy of those we have lost,” Obama said. “Let’s make sure it’s not on the usual plane of politics and point scoring and pettiness that drifts away with the next news cycle. 630 WMAL
When the left was trying to pin this on tough talk from the right Obama was the speech police. Reminding us to be civil and to have debate that is worthy of those who were lost.
Now, of course, Obama is not the speech police. White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said that Obama will not be drawn into a “gotcha game” over comments made by Teamster’s President Jimmy Hoffa. Of course, Obama did not weight in on the uncivil talk of Maxine Waters, Andre Carson and Joe Biden, all of whom were extremely uncivil.
The left claims that this is just talk and Hoffa was only talking about voting people out. Does that matter? Palin’s map with the bull’s eyes was only a map to show targeted districts where people needed to VOTE a person out of office. That fact, that Palin’s map was about votes, did not stop the left from trying to pin the violence on her. To top it off, she used a map that was invented by a Democrat.
So, just to be clear, Obama is not the speech police except when he is. To make it easier, he polices speech when it comes from the right (or more accurately, when he can blame something on the right) and does not police speech when it comes from the left.
Keep in mind, the subject or context of the speech is not an important issue. The left has continually ignored the intent or context of right wing speech and TEA Party signs in order to point fingers. The issue, according to their standards, is speech that is uncivil could incite violence.
And it looks like the Hoffa speech incited some union violence. Longshoremen took guards hostage and committed acts of violence but were not charged. These guys even threatened police officers with bats. A few well placed shots would have taken care of this but again, NO charges were filed.
Hoffa incited that violence. But he does not have to worry, Obama will not be the speech police (of the left).
Cave Canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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Did Hate Speech Inspire These Left Wing Lunatics?
Jan 25, 2011 Political
Almost immediately after the shooting in Tuscon the left wing liberal echo chamber was reverberating the story that Sarah Palin and the right wing were responsible for the violence. The fact that nothing was known about the shooter did not keep them from making false claims. They continued this for a week until they got push back and they saw polls showing that America was not buying it.
They also quieted down when it was discovered that the shooter paid little attention to politics but leaned to the left. It also did not help that the left’s mouthpiece sheriff turned out to be negligent in that his department had multiple contacts with the lunatic shooter and ignored the violent threats from him. They could have had him evaluated and if he was diagnosed with a mental disorder he could not have bought a gun. A liberal sheriff neglected his duty and people died.
The left wants us to believe that all the violence that is perpetrated is from the right. The only major bit of violence I am aware of with regard to a person who claimed to be protecting the Constitution was McVeigh. I was challenged with a list of so called violence which included imagined threats and people “inciting” violence or incidents against Democrats (and their offices) in which no one was caught but the left assumed it had to be a right winger. It was weak at best though it was at least a half hearted attempt to counter my claim that all the violence has come from the left. Clearly I should have avoided the absolute word “all” and stated a more accurate claim and that is most of the violence has come from the left. Just about (if not) all of the US presidential assassinations and attempted assassinations have been perpetrated by people on the left.
The so called violent right wing talk the left claims incites these things pales in comparison to the threats of violence and violent talk coming from the left. I don’t recall any right wing people saying that they wanted to shoot everyone who did not believe the same thing as they (James Cameron and global warming deniers). I do not recall any right wing politician saying he wanted to line a candidate form the opposing party up against a wall and shoot him. I do not recall Rush, Beck, Hannity or any others doing this or ever calling for violence against others. Plenty of left wing commentators do though.
Here is a list of the 7 violent left wingers that the liberals want us to forget about. They are fairly recent and they are violent but I do not believe that harsh talk by the left caused them to commit (or threaten) acts of violence. They did it because they are violent people.
But they are left wing lunatics who committed violence and whose acts were never blamed on the violent talk of the left. The right knows they are responsible for their own actions. The left believes they must be a victim of something (usually Bush is to blame).
I have been to plenty of rallies in DC when all kinds of groups were there and I have never seen an act of violence perpetrated by the right wing supporters (I have seen some commit violence in their own defense) but I have seen a number of threats from left wing groups (usually the cowardly anarchists). The DC police always told us they knew what side would be causing the problems and at several events told us that there were no arrests of people from our groups but that dozens from the other sides were taken into custody. Yep, I remember watching the left wing lunatics try to “invade” the Capitol after the police said that anyone who trespassed would be arrested.
There are violent people on both sides of the debate but those people are responsible for their own actions. The problem is that the left wing media hardly reports on any act of violence involving left wingers and will often ignore or overlook it while pointing fingers at the right.
Case in point. How much have you heard about the attempted assassination of a Democrat Governor by a left wing nut job this past September? If you heard anything it was not much. It was certainly not as hyped as the shooting in Tuscon and there was no finger pointing.
That does not fit the narrative or the agenda.
Cave Canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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