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Sheep Led To The Slaughter: The Muzzling Of Free Speech In America
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“If the freedom of speech be taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”—George Washington
The architects of the American police state must think we’re idiots.
With every passing day, we’re being moved further down the road towards a totalitarian society characterized by government censorship, violence, corruption, hypocrisy and intolerance, all packaged for our supposed benefit in the Orwellian doublespeak of national security, tolerance and so-called “government speech.”
Long gone are the days when advocates of free speech could prevail in a case such as Tinker v. Des Moines. Indeed, it’s been 50 years since 13-year-old Mary Beth Tinker was suspended for wearing a black armband to school in protest of the Vietnam War. In taking up her case, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”
Were Tinker to make its way through the courts today, it would have to overcome the many hurdles being placed in the path of those attempting to voice sentiments that may be construed as unpopular, offensive, conspiratorial, violent, threatening or anti-government.
Consider, if you will, that the U.S. Supreme Court, historically a champion of the First Amendment, has declared that citizens can exercise their right to free speech everywhere it’s lawful—online, in social media, on a public sidewalk, etc.—as long as they don’t do so in front of the Court itself.
What is the rationale for upholding this ban on expressive activity on the Supreme Court plaza?
“Allowing demonstrations directed at the Court, on the Court’s own front terrace, would tend to yield the…impression…of a Court engaged with — and potentially vulnerable to — outside entreaties by the public.”
Translation: The appellate court that issued that particular ruling in Hodge v. Talkin actually wants us to believe that the Court is so impressionable that the justices could be swayed by the sight of a single man, civil rights activist Harold Hodge, standing alone and silent in the snow in a 20,000 square-foot space in front of the Supreme Court building wearing a small sign protesting the toll the police state is taking on the lives of black and Hispanic Americans.
My friends, we’re being played for fools.
The Supreme Court is not going to be swayed by you or me or Harold Hodge.
For that matter, the justices—all of whom hale from one of two Ivy League schools (Harvard or Yale) and most of whom are now millionaires and enjoy such rarefied privileges as lifetime employment, security details, ample vacations and travel perks—are anything but impartial.
If they are partial, it is to those with whom they are on intimate terms: with Corporate America and the governmental elite who answer to them, and they show their favor by investing in their businesses, socializing at their events, and generally marching in lockstep with their values and desires in and out of the courtroom.
To suggest that Harold Hodge, standing in front of the Supreme Court building on a day when the Court was not in session hearing arguments or issuing rulings, is a threat to the Court’s neutrality, while their dalliances with Corporate America is not, is utter hypocrisy.
Making matters worse, the Supreme Court has the effrontery to suggest that the government can discriminate freely against First Amendment activity that takes place within a government forum. Justifying such discrimination as “government speech,” the Court ruled that the Texas Dept. of Motor Vehicles could refuse to issue specialty license plate designs featuring a Confederate battle flag because it was offensive.
If it were just the courts suppressing free speech, that would be one thing to worry about, but First Amendment activities are being pummeled, punched, kicked, choked, chained and generally gagged all across the country.
The reasons for such censorship vary widely from political correctness, safety concerns and bullying to national security and hate crimes but the end result remains the same: the complete eradication of what Benjamin Franklin referred to as the “principal pillar of a free government.”
Officials at the University of Tennessee, for instance, recently introduced an Orwellian policy that would prohibit students from using gender specific pronouns and be more inclusive by using gender “neutral” pronouns such as ze, hir, zir, xe, xem and xyr, rather than he, she, him or her.
On many college campuses, declaring that “America is the land of opportunity” or asking someone “Where were you born?” are now considered microaggressions, “small actions or word choices that seem on their face to have no malicious intent but that are thought of as a kind of violence nonetheless.” Trigger warnings are also being used to alert students to any material or ideas they might read, see or hear that might upset them.
More than 50 percent of the nation’s colleges, including Boston University, Harvard University, Columbia University and Georgetown University, subscribe to “red light” speech policies that restrict or ban so-called offensive speech, or limit speakers to designated areas on campus. The campus climate has become so hypersensitive that comedians such as Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld refuse to perform stand-up routines to college crowds anymore.
What we are witnessing is an environment in which political correctness has given rise to “vindictive protectiveness,” a term coined by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and educational First Amendment activist Greg Lukianoff. It refers to a society in which “everyone must think twice before speaking up, lest they face charges of insensitivity, aggression or worse.”
This is particularly evident in the public schools where students are insulated from anything—words, ideas and images—that might create unease or offense. For instance, the thought police at schools in Charleston, South Carolina, have instituted a ban on displaying the Confederate flag on clothing, jewelry and even cars on campus.
Added to this is a growing list of programs, policies, laws and cultural taboos that defy the First Amendment’s safeguards for expressive speech and activity. Yet as First Amendment scholar Robert Richards points out, “The categories of speech that fall outside of [the First Amendment’s] protection are obscenity, child pornography, defamation, incitement to violence and true threats of violence. Even in those categories, there are tests that have to be met in order for the speech to be illegal. Beyond that, we are free to speak.”
Technically, Richards is correct. On paper, we are free to speak.
In reality, however, we are only as free to speak as a government official may allow.
Free speech zones, bubble zones, trespass zones, anti-bullying legislation, zero tolerance policies, hate crime laws and a host of other legalistic maladies dreamed up by politicians and prosecutors have conspired to corrode our core freedoms.
As a result, we are no longer a nation of constitutional purists for whom the Bill of Rights serves as the ultimate authority. As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, we have litigated and legislated our way into a new governmental framework where the dictates of petty bureaucrats carry greater weight than the inalienable rights of the citizenry.
It may seem trivial to be debating the merits of free speech at a time when unarmed citizens are being shot, stripped, searched, choked, beaten and tasered by police for little more than daring to frown, smile, question, challenge an order, or just breathe.
However, while the First Amendment provides no tangible protection against a gun wielded by a government agent, nor will it save you from being wrongly arrested or illegally searched, or having your property seized in order to fatten the wallets of government agencies, without the First Amendment, we are utterly helpless.
It’s not just about the right to speak freely, or pray freely, or assemble freely, or petition the government for a redress of grievances, or have a free press. The unspoken freedom enshrined in the First Amendment is the right to think freely and openly debate issues without being muzzled or treated like a criminal.
Just as surveillance has been shown to “stifle and smother dissent, keeping a populace cowed by fear,” government censorship gives rise to self-censorship, breeds compliance and makes independent thought all but impossible.
In the end, censorship and political correctness not only produce people that cannot speak for themselves but also people who cannot think for themselves. And a citizenry that can’t think for itself is a citizenry that will neither rebel against the government’s dictates nor revolt against the government’s tyranny.
The end result: a nation of sheep who willingly line up for the slaughterhouse.
The cluttered cultural American landscape today is one in which people are so distracted by the military-surveillance-entertainment complex that critical thinkers are in the minority and frank, unfiltered, uncensored speech is considered uncivil, uncouth and unacceptable.
That’s the point, of course.
The architects, engineers and lever-pullers who run the American police state want us to remain deaf, dumb and silent. They want our children raised on a vapid diet of utter nonsense, where common sense is in short supply and the only viewpoint that matters is the government’s.
We are becoming a nation of idiots, encouraged to spout political drivel and little else.
In so doing, we have adopted the lexicon of Newspeak, the official language of George Orwell’s fictional Oceania, which was “designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought.” As Orwell explained in 1984, “The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of IngSoc [the state ideology of Oceania], but to make all other modes of thought impossible.”
If Orwell envisioned the future as a boot stamping on a human face, a fair representation of our present day might well be a muzzle on that same human face.
If we’re to have any hope for the future, it will rest with those ill-mannered, bad-tempered, uncivil, discourteous few who are disenchanted enough with the status quo to tell the government to go to hell using every nonviolent means available.
However, as Orwell warned, you cannot become conscious until you rebel.
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So how did Jews get so smart (one standard deviation above the human average)?
Constant persecution drove the dumb ones out of the religion. Hate is a very powerful force. It rarely serves its practitioneres well.
"Give in to your hate" is the message of the Dark Side.
Jews are smart in an evil way. Like Nazi Germans
Jews stick together and consider NON Jews as cattle.
They also are AMORAL pigs who think killing and screwing over NON Jews is righteous.
Einstein? Bohr? Feynman?
I dont believe in collective guilt, heritable guilt, or the corruption of blood.
They also are AMORAL pigs who think killing and screwing over NON Jews is righteous.
The reason polio is no longer a scourge is Jonas Salk. Folk wisdom in America is if you want a good lawyer or doctor get a Jewish one.
Just be prepared that they may mutilate your genitals for no reason whatsoever.
WASHINGTON, GEORGE, in Maxims of George Washington by A. A. Appleton & Co. "They (the Jews) work more effectively against us, than the enemy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause we are engaged in... It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago, has not hunted them down as pest to society and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America."
This prophecy, by Benjamin Franklin, was made in a "CHIT CHAT AROUND THE TABLE DURING INTERMISSION," at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention of 1787. This statement was recorded in the dairy of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a delegate from South Carolina. "I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews. In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation is founded, by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within the state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal. For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people not of their race. If you do not exclude them from these United States, in their Constitution, in less than 200 years they will have swarmed here in such great numbers that they will dominate and devour the land and change our form of government, for which we Americans have shed our blood, given our lives our substance and jeopardized our liberty. If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves. Jews, gentlemen, are Asiatics, let them be born where they will nor how many generations they are away from Asia, they will never be otherwise. Their ideas do not conform to an American's, and will not even thou they live among us ten generations. A leopard cannot change its spots. Jews are Asiatics, are a menace to this country if permitted entrance, and should be excluded by this Constitutional Convention.
STYVESANT, PETER. 17th century Dutch governor in America. "The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here, but learning that they (with their customary usury and deceitful trading with the Christians) were very repugnant to the inferior magistrates, as also to the people having the most affection for you; the Deaconry also fearing that owing to their present indigence they might become a charge in the coming winter, we have, for the benefit of this weak newly developing place and land in general, deemed it useful to require them in a friendly way to depart; praying also most seriously in this connection, for ourselves also for the general community of your worships, that the deceitful race -- such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ -- not be allowed further to infect and trouble this new colony. (Letter to the Amsterdam Chamber of the Dutch West India Company, from New Amsterdam, September 22, 1654.) The Jews whom he attempted to oust merely applied to their fellow Jews in Holland, and the order came back from the Company countermanding the expulsion. (For a similar situation during the Civil War, see ULYSSES GRANT). Among the reasons given by "their worships" for over-ruling their governor, one stands out rather glaringly, in view of the usual Jewish contention that their people were 'poor and persecuted:' " . . . and also because of the large amount of capital which they have invested in shares of this Company." (Harry Golden and Martin Rywell, THE JEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY) THE GEORGIA COLONY IN AMERICA. On January 5, 1734, the trustees ordered that three Jews who had been sending coreligionists into the colony without authorization "use their endeavors that the said Jews may be removed from the Colony of Georgia, as the best and only satisfaction that they can give to the Trustees for such an indignity offered to Gentlemen acting under His Majesty's Charter." (C. Jones, HISTORY OF SAVANNAH)
JEFFERSON, THOMAS. 18th century American statesman. "Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in." (D. Boorstin, THE AMERICANS) "Those who labor in the earth are the Chosen People of God, if ever he had a chosen people." (NOTES ON VIRGINIA)
BEAMISH, HENRY H. 20th century British publisher. "There is no need to
The KGB fears Jews and homos. Welcome to America comrade - where we fear neither.
'The KGB fears Jews and homos. Welcome to America comrade - where we are full of both.'
Fixed.
Every country that has expelled the Jews has gone on to decline.
Evidently what ever their defects they bring more to the table than they take. Russia has nearly expelled all Jews. Russia is in decline.
As to usury? Shakespeare had good advice. "Neither a borrower or a lender be." You can't be overcharged for a loan if you don't take out a loan.
True Simon, and in other words slightly different, every host that has expelled their parasites has gone on to decline.
What country tasers Grandmas and children and has police that rob people LEGALLY?
Not Russia, Not China, Not European countries.
What country fines people for harvesting the rays of the sun to power their home?
What country fines people for harvesting rainwater from their gutter?
Not Russia, China or European countries.
What country is noted for its failure to reproduce along with a preponderance of alcoholics?
I'll give you a hint it covers 13 time zones between Europe and China.
Enjoy living in the past?
I suggest you clean up your own goddam shithole of FATASS imbeciles and useles eaters who spew out little imbeciles and feed them fairytales for an education.
Now fuck off, you goddam Americunt piece of shit.
Exellent reasoning. And delightful language.
And I'm sorry for Russia. Really. A lot of fine Americans have come from there.
Fuck you, asswipe. You think Americans are 'exceptional''. Yes, exceptionally STUPID, you being a prime example.
So what you are saying is '''Russians who live in Russia are BAD, Russians who came to the USA are GOOD'
I immigrated to the USA in 1951 and left in 1989 and officially renounced US citizenship in 2012 and live back in country oof birth (not Russia).
How many fucking times to I have to tell you? YOU KNOW NOTHING about the real world except what FOXCNNABCCBSNBC feeds you.
You are a pathetic retard trying to act smart.
William of Nassau, scion
Of a Dutch and ancient line [1],
Dedicate undying
Faith to this land of mine.
A prince I am, undaunted,
Of Orange, ever free,
To the king of Spain I've granted
A lifelong loyalty
Moron Simon.
I hope your one braincell which is on life support soon recovers.
Here is a tidbit of info for you.
The Useless Snakes of Americunts has killed well over 10 million INNOCENT people around the globe since 1960.
You are just another useless eater and LEECH and Parasite . Go get your food stamps. LOSER!!!
Uh. In the anglo world it is Simple Simon.
But being from Russia how could you know much of American culture?
And BTW the Russian rape of Germany in the closing days of WW2 is worth remembering. As is the gulag of the Soviet Communists. Americans are pikers in the murder dept. compared to the Russian Communists.
Hey fuckface. I lived in the USA 35 years before escaping. I am a Vietam Veteran.
You just keep showing how fucking IGNORANT you are.
You think anyone who supports Russia must be Russian.
Is it any wonder your craphole country is the laughing stock of the world?
Mothefucking SCUM like you is one of the reasons I left the USA. Main reason I left was to take overseas job TRIPLING my income overnight and never been back to live or work since. Last time was in 2002 on a businesss trip and even then I could literally SMELL the fascism.
I suggest you stop making a goddam FOOL out of yourself here, because YOU KNOW NOTHING about the real world and have never been outside of your country. unlesss perhaps part of the miiltary to destroy some other persons' country.
You talk a load of bullshit.
unlesss perhaps part of the miiltary to destroy some other persons' country.
Well, like YOU I am a 'Nam Vet. And as far as I'm aware it was the Communists who destroyed Viet Nam. They were into mass murder. So much so that America got a LOT of Vietnamese refugees.
Unlike you I have stayed here to do something dirctly about the fascists. I have no objection to your giving up the direct fight. Some people are not built for it. My condolences.
Your quite recent ancestors almost certainly did "give up the direct fight" and fled to America from Europe. It seems they were far wiser than you will ever be. The same logic applies wherever "you" originated from.
Condolences to your deceased brain cells.
I escaped the USA to make big bucks instead of going on unemployment.
You can fight all you want you won't change things.
So you live where now!
Your school boy use of profanity indicates your are really a New Jersey resident, living in your mama's basement. I particularly note your use of "motherfucking" as an adjactive rather than a noun! That is indicitive of either a northern nigger (yes there are niggers that are not black in skin color) or a vodka influenced midwestern wanna be cowboy.
I seriously doubt your claim of being a VN vet or in other words your a fucking liar! I formally request th name of your unit (corp, battalion, division) which I doubt you know the difference. Mine, !st Airmobille, 173rd regiment, 1969-1970.
Finally, your use of Alfred E. Newman as moniker is realy quite revealing on your view point of the world, his most famous quote, "what, me worry?" does not fit into your modis operendi.
A more apropriate monikor would be a bugs bunny cartoon cariture such as Daffy Duck.
Please carry on with your not so entertaining comments, they are the perfect example of why people should engage their brain, engage the gears to the ears, and shut the fuck up
By now, it is quite apparent who wants war and why. The death and maiming of a country's male population at the peak of their development and entering the prime of their lives, MIC requires fuel to keep their money supplies flowing into the pockets of the richest men in the world, nations who sell arms have created their own demise, these are the killers, not oppressed citizens.
I have lived in the towns of america. Their complicated lives require all of their attention. Debt, addiction, affairs and divorces, working 60 hours a week, family feuds, and then you have the righteous ones who walk about with their heads held high, in the millions, with "We were right! Praise the Lord" on repeat every 10 seconds. "Thank You Jesus!"
There is a rumor that the space program was a fake, and the money alloted instead infused into an account that funded the group of agents assigned the task of disarming Americans, overthrowing their government and selling it off in regional sections, while placing the citizens into debt prisoner status and forced into slavery. Mass migration of loyal soldiers who blend in like everyday people took decades. They have taken over everything that is worth having.
There are 44 castles that should be wiped off the face of the earth simultaneously with Zizrael.
"The Civil War left a culture of death, a culture of mourning, beyond anything Americans had ever experienced or imagined," says David Blight, a Civil War historian at Yale University.
"It left a degree of family and social devastation unprecedented for any Western society."
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17604991
Americans struggle just as everyone else does. Exceptionalism and American is something Dick Cheney spit out between gritted teeth. "Nonnegotiable." White Americans in this country are discriminated against, and as a Canadian in America...I see it first hand, and have also seen it around the globe. There is a well organized attempt to turn the world against americans and it is not less dangerous than how the Hitler used propaganda, or how Jim Jones convinced several hundred people dying was better than talking to a news reporter (drink the koolaide or I'll shoot).
The guy watching football with his friends or the woman jogging at the goddam park are not causing this misery. But you know that by now, this must be your mission, ruminating about it, practicing during commercials on TV. Take a pill.
Moron Simon.
What you cite was under the USSR. Things are changing now that Russia is capitalistic.
And STILL fucking BASTARD sons of bitches like YOU want to wage war against them.
You know why? Because YOU can't compete.
Now get me that fucking burger I ordered you little punkass son of a crack whore!!!!
Russia is capitalist? Only if you count Crony Socialism as capitalism.
Not to worry. America is burdened by the same defect. I think in the Crony competition America will do better. We have a lot of Jews in that business. But of course it will be worse for the people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia
As of 2014, Russian TFR of 1.750 children per woman[7] was the highest in Eastern, Southern and Central Europe. In 2013, Russia experienced the first natural population growth since 1990 at 22,700 people. Taking into account immigration, the population grew by 294,500 people.[8]
Replacement rate is about 2.1 TFR. Russia is dying.
Now explain the rise of the dollar and the fall of the ruble - since this is nominally an economics blog.
Meanwhile the USA keeps the birth rate pumped up by pumping out little imbeciles from imbecile parents.
A country under state capture. That is who. It is happening in Canada. Agenda 21 and elimination of the middle class lifestyle (after theft of nations' resources and wealth of the nations population over generations).
http://www.postsustainabilityinstitute.org/which-nations-signed-agenda-2...
“The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable, indeed a sacred principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation.”
~ UN Commission on Global Governance report.
Iceland may be a country worth praise.
For those wishing to expand the scope of “global governance”, sustainable development is the perfect umbrella because just about all human activity affects the environment in some way. The phrase “for the good of the planet” can be used as an excuse to micromanage virtually every aspect of our lives.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-16/central-planning-goes-global-un...
@Moron Simon
Fuck you, asswipe. You think Americans are 'exceptional''. Yes, exceptionally STUPID, you being a prime example.
So what you are saying is '''Russians who live in Russia are BAD, Russians who came to the USA are GOOD'
I immigrated to the USA in 1951 and left in 1989 and officially renounced US citizenship in 2012 and live back in country oof birth (not Russia).
How many fucking times to I have to tell you? YOU KNOW NOTHING about the real world except what FOXCNNABCCBSNBC feeds you.
You are a pathetic retard trying to act smart.
FOXCNNABCCBSNBC? I avoid television for the plague that it is.
You seem to have a lot of unfounded opinions about me. Good. It disarms you.
And your constant resort to personal attacks is a sign that your intellect may not be as sharp as you estimate. No wonder you are outsmarted by Jews. My condolences.
You're one of those guys that just has to be the smartest person in the room.
Otherwise, you leave the room.
He must spend a great deal of time home alone.
"Fuck you, asswipe" "YOU KNOW NOTHING" ...
If you don't stop that, I'm going to tell your Mommy that you are (mis)using her computer.
Close all colleges and universities and arrest those professors stopping free speech
This is the same George Washington who put down protests of the Whiskey Tax? Do tell.
Albeit, at the behest of Alexander "Worm-Tongue" Hamilton. Washington pardoned all of those arrested for rebelling, after dragging them from the Pittsburgh area to Philly for trial. Hamilton didn't get the bloodletting he pined for. Not saying Washington wasn't wrong in this case, but he was still the cooler head. In fact, Washington's role in the Whiskey Rebellion is the only thing I've ever found that I could fault the guy for.
The Whiskey Rebellion is a very telling study on how our government was designed to eventually fail, when Hamilton conspired to join at the hip, the rich capitalists with the nascent government. The people saw right through the crony capitalism, when Hamilton granted what was essentially a monopoly to the big distillers of spirits, at that time. The tax was intended to thwart the common people from making their own spirits, thus encouraging them to buy the distiller's spirits. Didn't work out as planned.
"My friends, we’re being played for fools."
Ummm... no. We ARE fools. 99.999% of people can be convinced to be for something they are against or against something they are for. Most of those who champion free speech have no problem with the government's attempted prosecution of Edward Snowden. Most also have no problem with laws against showing porn on TV on Saturday morning (in place of traditional cartoons). People only stand up for rights when others exercise them the same way they do.
Road block to the correct information highway, newspapers, entertainment industry or censorship has led us here. When the American people realize they have been tricked, that their children will be penniless tax slaves, you will see why popular opinion, is so important. Alex Jones and Karen hudes, all telling their audience: "it's up to you!" Fuck that. There are people who call themselves community leaders, who have the ability to process compless information - like the US debt when all is considered, is 95 Trillion dollars, and there will be a genocide of the US population that will look like a going green project.
"CAPOTE, TRUMAN. 20th century American writer. In an interview, he assailed "the Zionist mafia" monopolizing publishing today, and protested a tendency to suppress things that do not meet with Jewish approval. (Playboy magazine, March 1968)"
HENRY ADAMS (Descendant of President John Adams), in a letter to John Hay, October 1895 "The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems."
SPRING-RICE, SIR CECIL. 20th century British politician. "One by one, the Jews are capturing the principal newspapers of America. (Letter of November 1914, to Sir Edward Grey, foreign secretary. Letters and Friendships)
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/repute.htm -
Herbert Marcuse, polemicist and member of the Marxist Frankfort School was refreshingly frank. The "reopening" of the channels of true toleration and liberation, now "blocked by organized repression and indoctrination," must be accomplished sometimes by "apparently undemocratic means." Marcuse suggested that these would include "the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements which promote aggressive policies, armament, chauvinism, discrimination on the grounds of race and religion, or which oppose the extension of public services, social security, medical care, etc."
It is a fundamentally Marcusean idea that tolerance must be redefined to advance a "positive" (Marxist, progressive, anti-capitalist) social and moral agenda.
Amen, viator!
He was an extraordinarily effective comrade in the revolution to which I refer just above.
There must be a way to shame these assholes with a contagious humor founded on a philosophical point of view that would naturally resonate with most people. The only other human way I see to turn this back is extraordinary, pervasive violence. That's a path that may lead to great injustice and much less actual freedom. - IMO
"For that matter, the justices—all of whom" ARE EITHER CATHOLIC OR JEWISH!
There, fixed it for ya. Not one WASP(white anglo-saxon protestant{Christian}), NOT ONE!!!!!!!
Current U.S. Supreme Court Members
Antonin Scalia, DC Roman Catholic
Anthony M. Kennedy Roman Catholic
Clarence Thomas, DC Roman Catholic
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, DC Jewish
Stephen G. Breyer, Mass. Jewish
John G. Roberts, DC Roman Catholic
Samuel A. Alito, Jr., N.J. Roman Catholic
Sonia Sotomayor N.Y. Roman Catholic
Elena Kagan N.Y. Jewish
There's some diversity for ya:
6 Catholics
3 Jews
3 women
2 lesbians
hmmm, see a pattern here?
"Roman Catholic", nominally.
Same with your referenced Jews.
The revolution has come so far that almost no group identity has any particular meaning in its historical context. In fact, I can't think of a single one just off the top of my head, though I'd like to think there are exceptions.
The KKK still represents you though.
What do the Kardashians have to do with this? Kanye Kim and Khloe.
Well it all starts somewhere. One early place was in lawsuit situations where "settlements" are "agreed to" in which the litigants are paid off only if they keep their mouths shut about the details of the case. Why not just agree to be bound in complete slavery? So now we have "national security letters" that come with ferocious gag orders.
All of this is because we live in a feudal republic and not in a free democracy. So we are ruled by the whims of the judges, and not by ourselves.
Political correctness subjugates free speech.
Since I'm not a politician, "political correctness" does NOT apply to me.
So I can say things such as Chink, Jap, Beaner, White Trash, faggot, etc. with impunity because I'm not running for office or hoping to be selected for such.
I only posted once, yet I got 3.
Why did my post pop up 3 times?
?Parkinson's?
?Alcohol withdrawal?
?A kludgey user interface that captures many redundant posts here?
A lot of problems can be blamed on our (educational) system:
- Lack of current events in the cirriculum. Such courses would (should) include an exchange of thoughts concerning subjects of importance with topics scheduled in advance. Then open things up for discussion and presentation of thoughts. Allow brief debating formats where one demonstrates original thought - or at least some thought - in support of their position. At this point schools offer very little in promoting critical thinking or instilling and promoting the creation of student's own ideas. Maybe have the ultimate grade largely determined by a "position paper" on a chosen topic with considerable length and effort required. Have the teacher meet individually with each student to ensure progress during the course of the semester. This would combine oral participation with a demonstration of ability to present one's position convincingly in writing. I'm only talking about one course titled "current events" or something - similar to political science when I was in school, but no longer subject largely to lectures and presentation only of the teachers or school districts point of view.
- Students go through HS and many graduate from college without EVEN ONE course devoted to how to handle money. They will all earn so much during their lifetimes, but with no clue whatsoever how to responsibly manage it. I guess this is simply left to their parents or something who are also generally clueless. I recall a German class I had in twelth grade in 1969 where the teacher, Herr Schneider, actually spent one day on the topic of mutual fund investing. Never, ever did any other teacher even consider doing such a thing. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that our German teacher might even have been reprimanded for doing it as "they" determined he was there ONLY to teach German. I vividly recall that day clear as a bell as maybe the most memorable experience of HS - academic wise.
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If you want a real trip - just see the lunacy involved with the prevailing method of teaching mathematics in early elementary school to your child or grandchild. It is so odd that I cannot help with math homework for fear of over-riding this f*cked up methodology.
At this point schools offer very little in promoting critical thinking or instilling and promoting the creation of student's own ideas.
This is by design. The masses exist only to toil for benefit of the Pharisees.
I've told you guys this before, I think the dog is working with the farmer. Really.
Good one, Moe!
For those who don't remember that meme:
http://weknowmemes.com/2012/03/im-telling-you-the-man-and-the-dog-are-wo...
Let me know when the KKK is shut down.
Won't everything change when we elect Colonel Sanders?
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Maybe most of this comes from our being brainwashed into living with herd behavior. Everybody is a Wall-Mart shopper, George Clooney fawner, McDonald’s muncher – Simply because “everybody else is doing it”!
These “educated consumers” have been indoctrinated into becoming herd addicts whose lives are totally directed by herd pushers. They go on to become Democrats and Republicans...
The SCOTUS is as corrupt as every other part of our gubbamint. Consider Obamacare...which seems to have slide off the radar ENTIRELY...and how it's a 'tax' not a fucking up the ass by tyrant fascists.
Guns and free speech. I'm pretty sure Americans still have the right to both. Because I exercise and test both of these rights on a daily basis.